The bride's awakening - Kate Hewitt

He's going to teach her how to be a woman!

Vittorio Ralfino, the Count of Cazlevara, is back in Italy to find a traditional wife. Anamaria Viale, a good local girl, loyal and scandal-free, is perfect. Anamaria's stunned that her teenage crush is proposing to her.an ugly duckling! Tall, voluptuous and awkward, she's stoically resigned herself to singledom.

But Vittorio is persuasive - and passionate! He offered marriage as a business proposition - but very soon unlocks a deep, powerful need in Ana's untouched body that only he can sate.