The moment the lightning flashed, Princess Chantal saw the sensational eyes of her bodyguard, and her body felt electrified. The royal private jet landed safely on a small island, and the two were alone. He touched her skin only to check for injuries…but his fingers stimulated Chantal’s emotions, which she had tucked away since the death of her husband. “There’s no one here,” her bodyguard seductively whispered… The princess could not resist and finally crossed the line! But she never could’ve imagined the cruelty that ensued...※This work is originally colored.

The disobedient princess… The royal plane is about to crash! Princess Chantal Thibaudet is rescued from the wreckage byDemetrius Mantheakis, a renowned international security expert, withwealth and a reputation to match. He insists that Chantal go with himto his private Greek island, where he can protect her. But even princesses can become pregnant when they allow themselves to be sweptaway by a commoner—especially one as arrogant and sexy asDemetrius…. And a right royal scandal is about to break loose!

The Song of Songs, a lyric cycle of love scenes without a narrative plot, has often been considered as the Bible’s most beautiful and enigmatic book. The present study questions the still dominant exegetical convention that merges all of the Song’s voices into the dialogue of a single couple, its composite heroine Shulamit being a projection screen for norms of womanhood. An alternative socio-spatial reading, starting with the Hebrew text’s strophic patterns and its references to historical realia, explores the poem’s artful alternation between courtly, urban, rural, and pastoral scenes with their distinct characters. The literary construction of social difference juxtaposes class-specific patterns of consumption, mobility, emotion, power structures, and gender relations. This new image of the cycle as a detailed poetic frieze of ancient society eventually leads to a precise hypothesis concerning its literary and religious context in the Hellenistic age, as well as its geographical origins in the multiethnic borderland east of the Jordan. In a Jewish echo of anthropological skepticism, the poem emphasizes the plurality and relativity of the human condition while praising the communicative powers of pleasure, fantasy, and multifarious Eros.

Sisters Nicolette, Chantal and Joelle are princesses whose lives are prescribed by royal duty. But they are also passionate, loving women unwilling to settle for loveless marriages of state. In Jane Porter's sensual series of royal romance, each sister must find a way to reclaim her life in order to find true happiness with a man of her own choosing. Bundle includes The Sultan's Bought Bride, The Greek's Royal Mistress and The Italian's Virgin Princess.

Reprint of the original, first published in 1883.