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Nurse Katie Carlyon has come to start a new life in the Cypriot sunshine–but on arrival she realises she has been let down by the man she has come to marry.While helping to save a tourist's life at the airport, her nursing skills–and her vulnerable beauty–instantly impress the man who has been sent to meet her: handsome A&E doctor Christos Constantine.Christos is quick to offer Katie a job, and as they work together sparks begin to fly–their reluctant respect for each other cannot hide the smouldering passion that sizzles between them. Although Christos is wary of love, he realises he must put his heart on the line and convince this beautiful English rose to stay in the sun…and become his bride.

Housekeeper: at the Greek’s beck and call Constantine Karantinos is Greek through and through! When he learns he has an heir he will do anything to claim him. Even if he finds it hard to remember bedding the child’s mother – Laura was nothing more than a dowdy little waitress. Though maybe if he were to have her again, that would refresh his memory…Now Constantine’s summoned Laura to Greece, but she’s more wilful than he remembers: determined to pay her way as housekeeper, by day she insists on cooking and cleaning. However, by night Constantine still insists she fulfils her bedroom duties…

It is widely believed that the Emperor Constantine&rsquo;s conversion to Christianity politicized religious allegiances, dividing the Christian Roman Empire from the Zoroastrian Sasanian Empire and leading to the persecution of Christians in Persia. This account, however, is based on Greek ecclesiastical histories and Syriac martyrdom narratives that date to centuries after the fact. In this groundbreaking study, Kyle Smith analyzes diverse Greek, Latin, and Syriac sources to show that there was not a single history of fourth-century Mesopotamia. By examining the conflicting hagiographical and historical evidence, <I>Constantine and the Captive Christians of Persia</I> presents an evocative and evolving portrait of the first Christian emperor, uncovering how Syriac Christians manipulated the image of their western Christian counterparts to fashion their own political and religious identities during this century of radical change.

This collection of essays continues a long and venerable debate in the history of the Christian church regarding the legacy of the Roman emperor Constantine the Great. For some, Constantine's conversion to Christianity early in the fourth century set in motion a process that made the church subservient to the civil authority of the state, brought a definitive end to pacifism as a central teaching of the early church, and redefined the character of Christian catechesis and missions.
In 2010, Peter J. Leithart published a widely read polemic, Defending Constantine, that vigorously refuted this interpretation. In its place, Leithart offered a thoroughgoing rehabilitation of Constantine and his legacy, while directing a rhetorical fusillade against the pacifist theology and ethics of the Mennonite theologian John Howard Yoder.
The essays gathered here in response to Leithart reflect the insights of eleven leading theologians, historians, and ethicists from a wide range of theological traditions. They engage one of the most contentious issues in Christian church history in irenic fashion and at the highest level of scholarship. In so doing, they help ensure that the «Constantinian Debate» will continue to be lively, substantive, and consequential.