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Overview

Book 3 in a series of five. Rita finalist.

Autumn 1155, England. She was a willing wife. Nicolaa had been married four times before; she knew how to welcome a stranger into her bed, to give him her lands, her house, and her body. But she had also learned how to keep herself separate, to keep her heart intact. All she had to do was wait. This latest husband of hers, this Rowland the Dark, would leave her as each of her husbands had before him.

He did want a wife. Rowland had married once, and still loved that long ago wife; he had no wish to marry again for no one could replace the ...
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Overview

Book 3 in a series of five. Rita finalist.

Autumn 1155, England. She was a willing wife. Nicolaa had been married four times before; she knew how to welcome a stranger into her bed, to give him her lands, her house, and her body. But she had also learned how to keep herself separate, to keep her heart intact. All she had to do was wait. This latest husband of hers, this Rowland the Dark, would leave her as each of her husbands had before him.

He did want a wife. Rowland had married once, and still loved that long ago wife; he had no wish to marry again for no one could replace the wife of his heart. Yet when a king orders a man to wed, he weds where and when and to whom he is told. So it was that Rowland and Nicolaa found themselves married.

Nicolaa in all ways was a wife most willing and Rowland had no wish to hurt her by rejecting her. He would deal gently with her, showing her tenderness where her other husbands had shown only selfish self-interest. What Nicolaa is unprepared for is a husband who intends to stay, who plans to insert himself into her life and try to find a way into her heart. Her heart will remain untouched; it must. A woman who has had five husbands knows one thing about men: they do not stay and they do not care.

Product Details

  • BN ID: 2940012680204
  • Publisher: Night Shift Publishing
  • Publication date: 4/21/2011
  • Sold by: Barnes & Noble
  • Format: eBook
  • Sales rank: 130,059
  • Series: The Medieval Knights , #3
  • File size: 475 KB

Meet the Author

Claudia Dain has been published in romance since 2000. She is a two-time Rita award finalist and a USA Today Bestselling author. She writes Women's Fiction as Claudia Welch. She is a graduate of the University of Southern California.

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  • Posted December 9, 2008

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    engaging Medieval romance

    In 1155 England, King Henry II provides a gift of land accompanied by a wife to Rowland the Dark of Aquitaine though the recipient wants neither an estate nor a spouse. The bride, Nicolaa of Cheneteberie accepts her fate as she has been widowed four times before and realizes that she might as well cooperate because she has no rights or even a nay say to these arranged marriages. Though he preferred to remain single, Rowland knows no one lives to reject a regal present so he wants to make the marriage work. He goes out of his way to earn Nicolaa¿s trust. He begins his campaign to gain her love when he first concludes that she sees him as a passing nuisance because he plans to stay by her side if he can overcome the nightmares of his past. Medieval romance fans will enjoy THE WILLING WIFE due to the interesting lead characters whose basic understanding of survival makes it possible for the reader to absorb quite a sense of the era. The story line engages the audience because of the attitudes of Nicolaa and Rowland, but also on the other hand makes for insignificant disputes between them. With this novel and books like THE MARRIAGE BED, readers will deign this author as one of the sub-genre¿s aristocracy. Harriet Klausner

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