Damaso Claims His Heir - Annie West: Damaso Pires should have known better than to get involved with Marisa, the scandalous Princess of Bengaria! Yet soon he sees her true beauty and flawless virtue, which touches a place in him he'd thought ruthlessly destroyed by his childhood on the streets of Brazil. But their brief affair becomes permanent when Marisa reveals she's pregnant. Damaso knows the sting of illegitimacy and, having fought tooth and nail to claw his way up to the dizzying heights of international success and financial infamy, he won't let his child slip from his grasp. There's only one way to claim his heir - and that's marriage!