Tam:

I'll give Hallie Wynter thirty days.
Thirty days of living with me before I'll marry her.
Thirty days for her to tell me no, so I can send her running back to my family's biggest rival-her father.
She might act tough, but I don't doubt my ability to break her.
She's so innocent. So naïve.
The girl will be begging to go home by the time I'm done with her.

Hallie:

It was never supposed to be him.
Tam Cornell is too old for me; too hard, too cold, too everything.
I know he's pushing me, trying to send me back to a father who is just as ruthless as he is.
He thinks he can shock me with his filthy words and violent touch, but nothing he can expose me to will make me leave.
My father has always taught me family is everything.
And in thirty days Tam Cornell will become my family, too, whether he likes it or not.