Wedding Night in the King's Bed
Title | Wedding Night in the King's Bed PDF eBook |
Author | Caitlin Crews |
Publisher | Harlequin |
Pages | 191 |
Release | 2024-01-23 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0369744985 |
A guarded king will be unraveled in this royal romance by USA TODAY bestselling author Caitlin Crews! His Majesty requires an untouched bride… But can duty ever become love? Virginal Helene Archibald knows she’s destined for an arranged marriage. So, when her father declares she’ll be given to a king in a loveless union, she accepts it as fate. But Helene is unprepared for King Gianluca San Felice, and the wildfire that awakens at the sight of him! She is undone by the craving that consumes them on their wedding night. But outside the royal bedchamber, Gianluca remains ice-cold—dare Helene believe their chemistry is enough to bring this powerful ruler to his knees? From Harlequin Presents: Escape to exotic locations where passion knows no bounds.
The Wedding Night They Never Had / The Only King To Claim Her: The Wedding Night They Never Had / The Only King to Claim Her (The Kings of California) (Mills & Boon Modern)
Title | The Wedding Night They Never Had / The Only King To Claim Her: The Wedding Night They Never Had / The Only King to Claim Her (The Kings of California) (Mills & Boon Modern) PDF eBook |
Author | Jackie Ashenden |
Publisher | HarperCollins UK |
Pages | 384 |
Release | 2021-08-19 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0008914575 |
Finally awakening his royal bride! As King, Cassius requires a real queen by his side. Not Inara, his wife in name only. But when their unfulfilled desire finally gives her the courage to ask for a true marriage, can Inara be the queen he needs?
The Wedding Night
Title | The Wedding Night PDF eBook |
Author | Jane Merrill |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Pages | 270 |
Release | 2011-04-07 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 0313392110 |
This enlightening narrative takes a look at the wedding night—its origins, history, customs, cultural expressions, and fictional representations through the ages. Though just outside of public view, the wedding night is loaded with expectation and consequence. The Wedding Night: A Popular History is an entertaining, accessible, touching, and humorous volume that looks at the previously unexplored topic of wedding history "between the sheets." Covering a kaleidoscopic array of cultural expressions, this unique study zooms in on what's quintessential and shares insights into the history of intimacy through the ages. The book traces the formalization of the wedding night in the ancient Near East and classical world, provides many examples of historically significant unions in European and American history, and describes the lively variety of traditions leading up to the present. Spicing their narrative with many piquant quotes from contemporary sources, the authors explore the rich cultural context for the wedding night—processions, royal rituals, apparel, food-related traditions, and pranks—throughout Europe and America in the 19th and 20th centuries. Separate chapters examine sex guides, jokes, and the bed as a special conjugal space.
Luther and Katharina
Title | Luther and Katharina PDF eBook |
Author | Jody Hedlund |
Publisher | WaterBrook |
Pages | 402 |
Release | 2015-10-06 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 160142762X |
A Christy Award-winning novel chronicling the forbidden romance between Martin Luther and his wife, Katharina von Bora, set against the Protestant Reformation of the sixteenth century. She was a nun of noble birth. He was a heretic, a reformer, and an outlaw of the Holy Roman Empire. In the 16th century, nun Katharina von Bora’s fate fell no further than the Abbey. Until she read the writings of Martin Luther. His sweeping Catholic church reformation—condemning a cloistered life and promoting the goodness of marriage—awakened her desire for everything she’d been forbidden. Including Martin Luther himself. Despite the fact that the attraction and tension between them is undeniable, Luther holds fast to his convictions and remains isolated, refusing to risk anyone’s life but his own. And Katharina longs for love, but is strong-willed. She clings proudly to her class distinction, pining for nobility over the heart of a reformer. They couldn’t be more different. But as the world comes tumbling down around them, and with Luther’s threatened life a constant strain, these unlikely allies forge an unexpected bond of understanding, support and love. Together, they will alter the religious landscape forever. - Christy Award: Historical Romance Fiction Winner
The Heimskringla
Title | The Heimskringla PDF eBook |
Author | Snorri Sturluson |
Publisher | |
Pages | 504 |
Release | 1844 |
Genre | Iceland |
ISBN |
Her Return to King's Bed
Title | Her Return to King's Bed PDF eBook |
Author | Maureen Child |
Publisher | Harlequin |
Pages | 186 |
Release | 2013-12-03 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0373732821 |
Revenge has never been so sweet as in this Kings of California novel by USA TODAY bestselling author Maureen Child... She married him. Used him. Then left him. Rico King has waited five years for revenge. Now he's got Teresa Coretti where he wants her. To save her family, she'll return to Rico's island...and his bed...for one month. That will cure the hunger that's afflicted him since she left.... But Rico can't know what it cost Teresa to leave him. Nor the exquisite torture of being with him again. Because soon, her divided loyalties could once again cost her the love of her life.
The Royal Wedding Night
Title | The Royal Wedding Night PDF eBook |
Author | Annabel Joseph |
Publisher | Scarlet Rose Press |
Pages | 52 |
Release | 2016-09-21 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN |
The wedding’s a week away, and the princess has prepared herself to wed the duke. Mostly. But unbeknownst to Violet, they won’t spend their wedding night alone. In order to safeguard the royal bloodlines, marriage consummations are witnessed by an audience of Hastings councilmen and their wives. Can Violet make it through the trying ordeal with her newly improved manners intact? Can her husband use his disciplinary prowess and sensual finesse to guide her to ecstasy? This five-chapter novelette invites readers to enjoy the happily ever after—Thomas and Violet’s courtship, their wedding and bedding, and the morning after, when the newly married couple find themselves alone—and bonded—at last.