Joe Smith seemed rescuer and liberator to his new, young wife, Arden. He spirited her not only away from an ignoring father and a drunken mother, but from her confusing adolescent world as well. And he brought her to the wonderful bedroom-world of the married woman. So Arden played at being grown up while desperately needing her thirty-five year old husband to take care of her, protect her, father her. The need became so desperate that she grew willing to do anything to secure her marriage. This title was also published as "The Prudish Wife, " "The Timid Bride" and "Shy--But Sexy Bride.