Samuel Richardsons epistolary novel Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded, published in 1740, tells the story of a young womans resistance to the desires of her predatory master. Pamela is determined to protect her virginity and remain a paragon of virtue; however, the heroines moral principles only strengthen the resolve of Mr B and Pamela soon finds herself imprisoned against her will. The young womans affection for her captor gradually grows and she becomes aware of a love...
Maggie vowed to never marry a man who can’t laugh or dance, but when she and the dull new doctor in town, Everett Dulanis, wind up spending the night together in an abandoned dugout house, all that changes. Her father is the best man and his shotgun is the bridesmaid at the wedding where a union has been made, but there’s certainly no unity. Everett was engaged to Carolina Prescott, a southern lady in...