A Dangerous Love (Border Chronicles)
Adair Radcliffe is only a child when her family perishes in the War of the Roses, so her real father, the womanizing King Edward IV, takes her in, honoring his promise to her mother. Once Adair turns sixteen, the king marries her off without her knowledge - and to her later outrage - in a wedding...
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Adair Radcliffe is only a child when her family perishes in the War of the Roses, so her real father, the womanizing King Edward IV, takes her in, honoring his promise to her mother. Once Adair turns sixteen, the king marries her off without her knowledge - and to her later outrage - in a wedding by proxy. But when tragedy leaves her a widow twice over, Adair realizes that her already tenuous social position has sunk even lower. Now, all she can do is hope that the Scottish laird to whom she is sold will have mercy on her. But little does master or servant suspect that love knows no rank.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780451219787 (0451219783)
ASIN: 0451219783
Publish date: 2006-10-03
Publisher: NAL Trade
Pages no: 407
Edition language: English
Bertrice Small kicks off a new series, set in and around Scotland's Border country. This one takes place about 1500 or so, and as a historical romance, it's pure formula. As with most Small novels, there's over the top sex, instant lust, and yes, sex, along with characters who tend to be too good to...
First thing first: you either like Bertrice Small's writing, or you don't. If you have any distaste for historical romance, she is not the author for you. If you don't like sex scenes or long sequences of historical detail, she is not for you. And if you've read her other books and didn't like th...