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Love Wild and Fair
672 pages
A sweeping, unapologetically dark historical epic that drags its resilient heroine through opulent palaces and brutal betrayals toward a hard-won triumph.
What it feels like
Reading this vintage historical epic is like being swept into a turbulent, unapologetically dark fever dream of classic romance. The pace is propulsive, hurling the reader across snowy highlands and glittering, exotic courts with dizzying speed. It is a deeply intense, opulent experience, drenched in sensory details and high-stakes melodrama. The mood is both darkly sensual and fraught with peril, reflecting a brutal world where beauty is a dangerous currency and survival requires immense resilience. The prose is lush and extravagant, leaning into the extreme emotional highs and harrowing lows of the era's romance conventions. It is a book designed for readers who crave the high angst, sweeping geographical scope, and raw, unvarnished intensity of old-school bodice rippers, offering a harrowing journey that ultimately rewards with epic devotion.
- Mood
- opulent
- turbulent
- darkly sensual
- sweeping
- Tone
- melodramatic
- unapologetic
- passionate
- intense
- Pace
- propulsive
- Themes
- survival and resilience · the burden of beauty · power and subjugation · epic devotion · historical brutality
- The writing
- Lush, extravagant, and heavily sensory, leaning into the dramatic extremes of vintage romance.
- The arc
- The protagonist endures a harrowing gauntlet of exploitation and betrayal before finally seizing a hard-won, triumphant love.
- Who it's for
- Readers who crave the unapologetic darkness, high angst, and sweeping geographical scope of classic 1970s and 80s bodice rippers.
Content notes
- sexual assault and gang rape
- physical abuse and whipping
- non-consensual sexual content
- blackmail
- violence
About the book
Kadin #2 She is 15 year old Catriona, Countess of Glenkirk, the dazzling green-eyed beauty whose silken sensuality fires the passion of men's very souls -- making her a pawn in a dangerous game of royal intrigue. wife to 24 year old Patrick, unwilling mistress to the King James VI of Scotland, she has the undying live of the most courageous lord in all of Scotland...
He is Francis, Earl of Bothwell, who defies his king to possess the woman he loves. Theirs is a romance in the grand tradition of bestselling author Beatrice Small -- and epic tale of love and betrayal that sweeps from the snowy Scottish highlands through the glittering palaces of Europe and exotic pleasures domes of Constantinople to find its magnificent conclusion in the exquisite fulfillment of love's most passionate desires.
Kadin Series: The Kadin (Kadin, #1) Love Wild and Fair (Kadin, #2)
Description from Open Library.
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