The Highlander's Stolen Bride Av Melanie George

She must become his bride!After finding raw passion with innocent and headstrong Princess Kaliah, desert Prince Kamal feels honour-bound to offer marriage. But that¿s the last thing independent Liah wants! His solution? Stealing her away to his oasis...

Accidentally claimed by His Majesty! Maddi hasn¿t fully considered the implications of posing as her betrothed half-sister, Princess of Isla¿Rosa. Or that King Aristedes will demand she continue the pretence to avoid major scandal. Immersing herself...

<P>This volume argues that ancient Greek girls and early Christian virgins and their families made use of rhetorically similar traditions of marriage to an otherworldly bridegroom in order to handle the problem of a girl¿s denied or disrupted transition...