Orphan Marisa grew up supported by the wealthy Santangeli family. Their only demand was that she marry their son… Italian billionaire and renowned playboy Lorenzo Santangeli is expecting to receive his money's worth from his innocent new wife. But Marisa soon flees—how can she share a life with the man who married her solely to produce an heir?※This work is originally colored. Lorenzo vows to bring his bride home—you do not say no to a Santangeli! Once she's back, she'll be his completely, and he is determined to enjoy every minute of it…

Orphan Marisa grew up supported by the wealthy Santangeli family. Their only demand was that she marry their son… Italian billionaire and renowned playboy Lorenzo Santangeli is expecting to receive his money's worth from his innocent new wife. But Marisa soon flees—how can she share a life with the man who married her solely to produce an heir? Lorenzo vows to bring his bride home—you do not say no to a Santangeli! Once she's back, she'll be his completely, and he is determined to enjoy every minute of it…

It has been three years since her father’s best friend betrayed him, causing her family’s bankruptcy. Courtney can’t help but visit Hunters Court, her childhood home, when she hears it’s up for sale. She wishes her family could live there once more, but when she visits, she sees a man who turns her blood to ice. It's Blair...the nephew of the man who betrayed her father! He says he bought the manor for them to live in together—if she wants to live there, she’ll have to do so with him. Yet he backed her father into a corner and shattered her first love to pieces. Just what can Blair be thinking?

Natasha closes her lips tightly, determined to block his passionate kiss, as she gives her defenseless bare body to Alex Mandrakis. She'd carelessly signed that contract to save her adoptive family, but she had no idea it contained such a pitfall! In essence, she has sold herself. Sold herself as security for a loan, in the name of marriage, to the cold-blooded, vain and handsome-as-the-devil Alex. Ignoring her silent pleas for mercy, Alex cruelly steals her purity. For Natasha, it's the beginning of a new tragedy!

The last half century has seen an explosion in the study of late antiquity, which has characterised the period between the third and seventh centuries not as one of catastrophic collapse and ‘decline and fall’, but rather as one of dynamic and positive transformation. Yet research on cities in this period has provoked challenges to this positive picture of late antiquity. This study surveys the nature of this debate, examining problems associated with the sources historians use to examine late antique urbanism, and the discourses and methodological approaches they have constructed from them. It aims to set out the difficulties and opportunities presented by the study of cities in late antiquity in terms of transformations of politics, the economy, and religion, and to show that this period witnessed very real upheaval and dislocation alongside continuity and innovation in cities around the Mediterranean.

In the darkness of her bedroom, an unknown intruder steals a kiss from Elena's lips. She initially yields to an experience unlike any otherbefore she pushes away her assailant, an Italian count named Angelo. A tremendous flirt she had met earlier that day at a party, he lives in a glamorous world completely unlike her own. It seems he expected to rendezvous with Elena's cousin, but mistook their bedrooms...however, their kiss was witnessed by others, and to prevent a scandal, the count's grandmother orders them to be betrothed!

Matilda Lang is terrified when she feels herself falling for hotshot New York banker Sebastian Wolseley. An accident three years ago has left her in a wheelchair, and Sebastian’s the man who can make, or break, her heart. Sebastian is compassionate, sexy and, most importantly, he treats her like a desirable woman. It would take a miracle for Matty to risk her heart after what she’s been through. But Sebastian knows he’s the man who can help this brave woman embrace life and love — and persuade her to say ‘yes’ to his proposal of marriage!

'Ostia in Late Antiquity' narrates the life of Ostia Antica, Rome's ancient harbor, during the later empire.

When Samarah was six years old, her father’s country, Jharrel, and the neighboring country, Khadra, were in conflict, and her father died as a result. Samarah and her mother escaped, but her mother died en route, leaving her daughter without parents. Sixteen years later, twenty-two-year-old Samarah sneaked into the Khadra palace, intending to kill Sheikh Ferran, but she was captured immediately. Unsure of what would happen next, she’s caught off guard by Ferran’s plan for her?he intends to introduce her to the world as his fianc?e!