THE MEDITERRANEAN MILLIONAIRE'S MISTRESS

THE MEDITERRANEAN MILLIONAIRE'S MISTRESS
Author: Maggie Cox
Publisher: Harlequin / SB Creative
Total Pages: 131
Release: 2010-01-01
Genre: Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN: 4596353956

Ianthe Dane is exploring Greece when she comes across a photograph at a gallery that touches her deeply. The photographer is Lysander Rosakis, and Ianthe quickly falls in love with his expressive eyes and the images he's able to capture. But Lysander isn't the simple, independent photographer she thought?he's the manager of a multimillion-dollar shipping company. And Ianthe isn't just any tourist?she's searching for clues to her past left behind by her birth mother.

Mediterranean Boss, Convenient Mistress

Mediterranean Boss, Convenient Mistress
Author: Kathryn Ross
Publisher: Harlequin
Total Pages: 187
Release: 2009-02-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1426827652

Charlotte Hopkirk is determined to admire her boss from afar—after all, gorgeous Italian Marco Delmari seems to prefer impossibly slim supermodel types, and Charlie's curvaceous figure means she certainly doesn't fit that description! Then, on a business trip to Tuscany, the chemistry between them finally explodes—Charlie's never known passion like it! And Marco's obviously equally impressed, because now he's promoting her—from personal assistant to convenient mistress!

The Greek Tycoon's Blackmailed Mistress

The Greek Tycoon's Blackmailed Mistress
Author: Lynne Graham
Publisher: Harlequin
Total Pages: 186
Release: 2009-06-27
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1426835507

A woman must agree to be her ex-fiancé’s mistress to see her precious niece in this classic contemporary romance by a USA Today–bestselling author. Aristandros Xenakis is like a panther poised to pounce. Sleek, dark and utterly powerful, he’ll soon taste the sweet victory of vengeance. . . . Ella desperately wants access to her baby niece, but the child’s guardian is Aristandros—her ex-fiancé! She has no choice but to submit to his demand—she must become his mistress! Naive and unworldly, Ella is not like the groomed, gold-digging females who have previously warmed Aristandros’s bed. Surely it’s only a matter of time before he tires of her. . . ? Originally published in 2009.

The Routledge Companion to Women and Monarchy in the Ancient Mediterranean World

The Routledge Companion to Women and Monarchy in the Ancient Mediterranean World
Author: Elizabeth D. Carney
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 705
Release: 2020-11-09
Genre: History
ISBN: 0429783981

This volume offers the first comprehensive look at the role of women in the monarchies of the ancient Mediterranean. It consistently addresses certain issues across all dynasties: title; role in succession; the situation of mothers, wives, and daughters of kings; regnant and co-regnant women; role in cult and in dynastic image; and examines a sampling of the careers of individual women while placing them within broader contexts. Written by an international group of experts, this collection is based on the assumption that women played a fundamental role in ancient monarchy, that they were part of, not apart from it, and that it is necessary to understand their role to understand ancient monarchies. This is a crucial resource for anyone interested in the role of women in antiquity.

The Mediterranean's Secret Baby

The Mediterranean's Secret Baby
Author: Lynne Graham
Publisher: Harlequin
Total Pages: 267
Release: 2015-12-14
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1459292332

Two Mediterranean billionaires are about to discover they are fathers in this emotionally explosive reissue from Harlequin Presents USA TODAY bestselling authors! The Greek Tycoon's Defiant Bride by Lynne Graham He's discovered she's his baby's mother—so now she will be his bride! Maribel has always tried to be practical about the night of passion she shared with Leonidas Pallis. She was a shy virgin, so being taken to bed by the impossibly handsome Greek tycoon must have been a one-off—probably brought on by his need for comfort rather than an overpowering lust for her. However, unbeknownst to Leonidas…Maribel conceived his child. But now Leonidas is back, and it doesn't take him long to discover that he is a father. True to form, he wants what he feels is his: his baby boy and Maribel—at his beck and call whenever he cares to drop by. But Maribel's having none of it. The only way Leonidas will claim her and their son is if he takes her…as his bride! Book 2 in Lynne Graham's The Rich, the Ruthless and the Really Handsome trilogy. What a Sicilian Husband Wants by Michelle Smart On his terms only! Moving countries, cutting all ties and giving birth to her baby alone, Grace Holden is desperately hiding from her past. But just when she thinks she might have broken free, it catches up with her in the form of her millionaire Sicilian husband! Grace swore her daughter wouldn't grow up among the dark power and money of his family…but no one walks away from Luca Mastrangelo. Now, back within his reach, Grace is surprised to see new depths to the man she married, and each crack in his armor makes it harder to fight the desire still blazing between them.

Mistress, Mother, Muse

Mistress, Mother, Muse
Author: Maria Palaska
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Total Pages: 161
Release: 2021-01-15
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1527564770

Mistress, Mother, Muse: An Exploration of the Female in Modern and Contemporary Mediterranean Literature fills a vacuum in comparative literary studies in that it lays the foundations for Mediterraneanism to develop as an area in literary studies. The book is an exploration of aspects of female liminality, including motherhood, sexuality and creativity, in three distinctive Mediterranean cultures, namely Spanish, Greek and Arabic. It adopts myth as an approach to literary analysis, and, thus, introduces a new, ground-breaking method of analysis in literary studies. Mistress, Mother, Muse: An Exploration of the Female in Modern and Contemporary Mediterranean Literature represents a useful reference to students, scholars and academics in the fields of comparative literature, modern Greek literature, Spanish literature, Arabic literature, myth studies, classical Greek literature, and women’s studies.

Prostitution in the Eastern Mediterranean World

Prostitution in the Eastern Mediterranean World
Author: Gary Leiser
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 474
Release: 2016-12-21
Genre: History
ISBN: 1786720868

This groundbreaking book challenges many stereotypical views about the historical practice of prostitution. Based on twenty years' research, and organized by region, it charts the history of sex for sale in those chief centres of the late antique and medieval East, whether in Arabia, Egypt, Syria or Anatolia. Ranging extensively from 300 CE to 1500 (or from the reign of Theodosius to the early Ottoman period), Gary Leiser meticulously examines the available sources and argues for a reappraisal of the so-called oldest profession. He suggests that it was never prohibited; that there was remarkable continuity between Christian and Muslim rule; and that prostitution was institutionalized as a 'service industry' at various times. Indicating that sex work in the East had its own distinctive character and meanings (for example, that it was taxed from the time of Caligula onwards and that prostitutes were expected to retain tax receipts), the book brings continually fresh insights to a controversial subject.