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Master of Pleasure
351 pages
A sweeping, high-stakes medieval romance where bitter vengeance collides with undeniable, consuming passion.
What it feels like
This is a sweeping, high-stakes medieval romance that leans heavily into the delicious angst of the enemies-to-lovers trope. The mood is dark and tense, driven by a brooding hero consumed by a thirst for vengeance and a heroine caught in the crossfire of political and personal betrayal. The narrative moves at a brisk pace, sweeping the reader through a landscape of captive-captor dynamics and irresistible, forbidden desire. The prose is lush and emotionally charged, perfectly suited to the melodramatic intensity of the era. It is an experience defined by its emotional extremes, shifting from bitter resentment to fiery passion. Readers who devour classic, bodice-ripper-adjacent historicals with scarred, alpha heroes and fierce, defiant heroines will find themselves completely absorbed in this turbulent love story.
- Mood
- tense
- sensual
- dark
- sweeping
- Tone
- intense
- passionate
- angsty
- dramatic
- Pace
- brisk
- Themes
- vengeance and forgiveness · healing from trauma · enemies to lovers · captive and captor · irresistible desire
- The writing
- Lush and emotionally charged, leaning into the dramatic intensity of medieval romance.
- The arc
- Moves from bitter resentment and a thirst for vengeance to a reluctant, consuming passion that ultimately heals old wounds.
- Who it's for
- Readers who crave high-stakes, angsty historical romances with brooding, revenge-driven heroes and fierce heroines.
Content notes
- slavery
- captivity
- violence
- dubious consent
- trauma
About the book
A BRIDE'S BETRAYAL By order of the king, Lady Meiriona, 15, is to be given to a bastard warlord in marriage. Rather than see his daughter and his lands in the hands of a Yorkist, Meiriona's father ambushes Godric Montgomery when he comes to claim her-but only after a kiss she'll never forget....
Sold into slavery in the East, Godric becomes the plaything of an Arab princess. And when she gives birth to his daughter, he is given the child and set free. Seven years of Godric's life have been stolen-and nothing will stop him from exacting his vengeance upon the woman who betrayed him...
Over the years, Meiriona's dreams have been haunted by Godric's passionate touch. On the day she becomes the wife of another man, he returns to ruthlessly take what is his. Though Meiriona vows to resist her captor, a traitorous hunger for him consumes her, while the slightest surrender of her body inflames Godric's soul, setting a battle-scarred warrior against a new foe-his own heart...
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