JUS PRIMAE NOCTIS TO INVOKE THE RIGHT TO THE BRIDE'S FIRST NIGHT. Handsome and virile, Baron Fabian Deschamps takes pity on a virgin bride callously treated by her old and nasty groom on the morning of their wedding, and he invokes his right to her first night to give the arrogant bastard a lesson and his virgin bride a pleasurable seduction she hopefully will never forget. After finally spending her first night with the Baron, Fabian does something Isabelle never expects he will do - he bought her freedom by paying for her bride-price! But she cannot go back to her family when everyone knows he has essentially consummated a marriage that has become and void. Although she offers to work for him to pay for what she owes him, she has officially become his mistress, too. They cannot control the fires of passion that erupt whenever they are alone. They have no desire to try. How long will it be until the end? Can she survive being cast away, now that she has already fallen in love with him? Excerpt: His eyebrows rose in surprise. "You will rather work?" She nodded vigorously. "Yes! You bought my freedom, my Lord. I am at your service." He shook his head. "But again, like last night, I will give you another choice. You can prefer to be free, or you can stay here and. work, for me." He was frowning, as if he had planned to say something else. She also shook her head. "I can be free while working for you. Your servants. they are content and happy while they work for you. I can do the same." He frowned still. But they were still very close to each other and he had not let her go. The awareness that had heightened since the knight De Montpessat had left them seemed to grow more between them, and she found herself breathless. She knew he noticed it, too. "I still want you," he suddenly said in a voice gone hoarse. She gulped. It sounded like thunder between them and she closed her eyes, recognizing how her senses were heightened again just by being this close to h