This is a HUGE deal, because the merchant class were viewed as underlings. This is totally NOT how she has seen her future as a noblewoman. The heroine, Christiana, is a noblewoman - she is betrothed to a rich merchant, David. There is humor too as the hero and heroine get to know and appreciate one another. Rich historical detail about 14th century Europe, its merchant trade and political intrigue. It's a complex story and one where no one is as they seem - so you are constantly taken by surprise. She weaves a story about deception, desire, innocence and betrayal. I love to read and want to be a writer, and when I grow up, I want to write like Madeline Hunter. For by law, Moira belonged to him-but possessing her heart is another affair.…īy Arrangement was the first book I ever read by Madeline Hunter, and it remains near the very top of my keepers.

Yet his desire for her may be more dangerous than his deadliest battles. Addis cannot afford to be distracted by a woman-even one as tempting as Moira. Returned from the Crusades, the young squire who was once her hero was now her lord, a hardened man determined to reclaim the lands usurped by his stepbrother. Then Addis de Valence strode into Moira Falkner’s cottage. For Christiana has no idea that she is but a prize in a royal deal between the king and a passionate man who now realizes that by winning her body, he may have lost his heart….įor years she thought he was dead. Yet she was in for a shock when she met David de Abyndon, a tradesman of extraordinary poise-and baffling indifference to her social status.

But she demanded to be married on her own terms, not as punishment for a romantic indiscretion, and especially not to a common merchant. Lady Christiana Fitzwaryn was not opposed to marriage. From award-winning author Madeline Hunter comes a seductive duet of novels in which true love truly conquers all.…

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