The Virgin Bride

The Virgin Bride
Author: Miranda Lee
Publisher: HarperCollins Australia
Total Pages: 155
Release: 2014-08-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0857997777
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He wanted...an innocent bride When handsome bachelor Dr. Jason Steel took up residence in the small Australian town of Tindley, he soon knew who he wanted as his wife. Though Emma Churchill hesitated when Jason proposed, he was prepared to wait a month before she gave him her answer. The thought of making love to his virgin wife on their wedding night appealed to a part of him he'd never known existed....

The Virgin and the Bride

The Virgin and the Bride
Author: Kate Cooper
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Total Pages: 198
Release: 1999
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780674939509
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Rejecting Roman feminine virtue in its pure form, Christianity claimed a moral superiority in its ideals of romance, and portrayed women seeking more spiritual goals. Cooper studies how this connected with social and religious change.

Lassoing the Virgin Mail-Order Bride

Lassoing the Virgin Mail-Order Bride
Author: Alexa Riley
Publisher:
Total Pages: 188
Release: 2016-04-16
Genre:
ISBN: 9781537158358
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When Clare Stevens walked onto the McCallister ranch, she expected her life to be a certain way. She was the mail-order bride of the owner, and she was to fulfill her duties. Clean the house, cook for his men, and warm his bed at night. What she didn't expect was the beefy cowboy who walked in and literally swept her off her feet.Cash McCallister didn't have time to date and find a wife. So a mail-order bride seemed the easiest way to find a partner. He thought he'd made a mistake until he laid eyes on the little piece of sunshine that lit up his life. He never imagined a true love like this. He never knew an obsession could take hold so tightly.When drama hits the farm and their fast love is threatened, can Clare and Cash hold it together?Warning: This is literally as cliché as it sounds...and just as awesome. It's country living with high-calorie foods and easy sunsets. Come sit on the porch and stay a while. You'll like what you see.

His Convenient Virgin Bride

His Convenient Virgin Bride
Author: Barbara Dunlop
Publisher: Silhouette
Total Pages: 184
Release: 2010-04-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 142685210X
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He never imagined the incredible beauty would be a virgin! Yet just weeks after their roll in the hay, Stephanie Ryder was expecting his baby. Now millionaire Alec Creighton's once orderly world was slipping out of his control. Especially when her older brothers demanded that he propose to their sister. With the ceremony imminent, how would Alec wheel and deal his way out of it…or should he? Knowing the delights his bride offered, would having her in his bed be a pleasure he could afford?

Virgin Bride

Virgin Bride
Author: Tamara Leigh
Publisher: Fanfare
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1994
Genre: Great Britain
ISBN: 9780553565362
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The author of Warrior Bride returns with a stunning tale of a noblewoman who falls in love with her mortal enemy. Lady Graeye Charwyck, seeking to prevent a life behind convent walls, determines to lie with the first man she meets at a secluded waterfall. Little does she realize that the handsome knight she meets is bent on destroying her family.

Penniless Virgin to Sicilian's Bride

Penniless Virgin to Sicilian's Bride
Author: Melanie Milburne
Publisher: HarperCollins Australia
Total Pages: 173
Release: 2019-05-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1489284761
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‘Marry me this weekend.' He will wed his Cinderella! Sicilian billionaire Gabriel Salvetti offers a simple exchange - for her hand in marriage he'll save Francesca Mancini's ancestral home. Penniless Frankie has the aristocratic name Gabriel needs to redeem his family's notorious reputation and their blatant physical attraction can only sweeten the deal. But when he discovers his convenient bride is a virgin, one taste is enough to make Gabriel crave his wife - forever!

The Spanish Prince's Virgin Bride

The Spanish Prince's Virgin Bride
Author: Sandra Marton
Publisher: Harlequin
Total Pages: 181
Release: 2007-10-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1426806671
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A fiery Texan bride is more than this noble Spaniard can handle—from the USA Today–bestselling author of The Greek Prince’s Chosen Wife. “I cannot imagine a virgin would return a kiss with such fervor.” Prince Lucas Reyes is angry. His grandfather is forcing him into marriage with penniless Alyssa McDonough who’s pretending she’s untouched by any man. But the intense sexual chemistry between them tells him otherwise . . . Lucas’s fiery royal blood is roused! He’ll force Lyssa to go to Spain with him, where he can get their marriage annulled. Because he’d swear that she’s pure, uninhibited mistress material, and never a virgin bride . . .

The Kyriakos Virgin Bride

The Kyriakos Virgin Bride
Author: Tessa Radley
Publisher: Silhouette
Total Pages: 182
Release: 2007-09-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1426805411
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It was preordained that Greek billionaireZac Kyriakos would marry a womanpure of heart and body. His quest hadproved futile until he found shelteredheiress Pandora Armstrong whose youth,beauty and naiveté suited all his needs. Zac's whirlwind courtship swept Pandoraoff her feet—but it wasn't until after theiramazing wedding night that she discoveredwhy Zac had wanted her so desperately. Now she was left to doubt her husband'strue feelings…and wonder if he wouldstill want his virgin bride when he foundout she hadn't been…

His Virgin Bride

His Virgin Bride
Author: Grace Goodwin
Publisher: KSA Publishing Consultants
Total Pages: 173
Release:
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:
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After a life on the streets, Katie chooses the Interstellar Brides Program for a chance at a new life, a new identity. But when she arrives on Everis, her Marked Mate refuses to claim her. As an Elite Hunter, Bryn has to travel to Hyperion, a known world of gangs and vicious evil to bring an assassin to justice, and leave her behind. She might be innocent in body, but Katie knows her honorable mate is walking into a foreign world, a world she knows all too well. If she must seduce him, she will. If she must steal away on his ship and follow him to another world, she will. And if she must seduce the sexy-as-sin leader of the criminal legions they meet to save her mate? Well then, her innocence is a weapon, and she's not afraid to use it. If you love romance in the style of Nalini Singh, Christine Feehan, J.R. Ward, Lara Adrian, S. E. Smith, and out-of-this world outer space adventures like The Expanse, Star Trek, Star Wars and Stargate, be sure to read USAT Bestselling Author Grace Goodwin's exciting science fiction and paranormal book series! Aliens, adventure, and hot romance all in one place! Over one MILLION books sold! **Tags: alien romance, sci-fi romance, science fiction romance, paranormal romance, psychic romance, shifter, space fleet, space opera, interstellar brides, mail-order bride, arranged marriage, shifter, mate, alien mate, fated mate, reverse harem, scifi romance, scifi alien romance, scifi harem, The Colony, IBP, Prillon, Warrior, Atlan, Warlord, Everis, Hunter, Cyborg, Viken, Rogue 5, Kronos, Cerberus, Astra, matched mate, Trion, Coalition Fleet.

The Bride of Christ Goes to Hell

The Bride of Christ Goes to Hell
Author: Dyan Elliott
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Total Pages: 477
Release: 2011-11-16
Genre: History
ISBN: 0812206932
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The early Christian writer Tertullian first applied the epithet "bride of Christ" to the uppity virgins of Carthage as a means of enforcing female obedience. Henceforth, the virgin as Christ's spouse was expected to manifest matronly modesty and due submission, hobbling virginity's ancient capacity to destabilize gender roles. In the early Middle Ages, the focus on virginity and the attendant anxiety over its possible loss reinforced the emphasis on claustration in female religious communities, while also profoundly disparaging the nonvirginal members of a given community. With the rising importance of intentionality in determining a person's spiritual profile in the high Middle Ages, the title of bride could be applied and appropriated to laywomen who were nonvirgins as well. Such instances of democratization coincided with the rise of bridal mysticism and a progressive somatization of female spirituality. These factors helped cultivate an increasingly literal and eroticized discourse: women began to undergo mystical enactments of their union with Christ, including ecstatic consummations and vivid phantom pregnancies. Female mystics also became increasingly intimate with their confessors and other clerical confidants, who were sometimes represented as stand-ins for the celestial bridegroom. The dramatic merging of the spiritual and physical in female expressions of religiosity made church authorities fearful, an anxiety that would coalesce around the figure of the witch and her carnal induction into the Sabbath.