num_pages: 163
description: Benedicta gave a little cry and threw herself against the Duke. "I am so frightened I may . . . disappoint you." He pulled her closer to him. "Do you think I want you to know anything but what I shall teach you?" he asked. "I adore your ignorance, your purity." He spoke with a fervor she had never heard be-fore. "I was the first man who had ever kissed you. I shall also be the only man, and the last." Benedicta gazed at him in awe. "How could there be anyone else but you?" she asked wonderingly. Very tenderly the Duke looked down into her eyes. "You are mine," he said. He kissed her until he could feel her soft and pliant against him, until his lips had awakened in her the first flickering flames of desire .. .
language: English
title: The Duke and the Preacher's Daughter
titlecomplete: The Duke and the Preacher's Daughter
characters: Benedicta, Duke of Kingswood
genres: Fiction, Historical Romance, Historical, Historical Fiction, Romance
ratings_count: 410
series: The Eternal Collection
publisher: Bantam Books