Search - Prisoner Of My Desire

wow. you thought the middle ages were boring - just plagues, crusades, etc. hmmm, throw in a few chains, doms, leather - mildly camouflaged of course. read straight through - a page turner, nay mayhap a barn burner.

She is one of my favorite authors and this book lived up to my expectations of her work. Entertaining and fast paced.

Historical romance set in England 1152... sensuous.

Pretty steamy read right from the start.

Rowena is a lady who is forced into a marriage to better the army and monies of her stepbrother. She would refuse to marry this ancient relic except for the fact that her step-brother is holding her mother hostage and has beaten her in order to get what he wants from Rowena. Unfortunately for the step-brother (and Rowena), the old man who she is to marry dies right before coming to his bed on his wedding night. The step-brother decides to hide this fact from everyone and found someone who is similar in coloring to the old man. He decides that he will have Rowena "rape" this man in order to produce an heir that they can claim is the old (dead) man's heir and therefore still inherit his estates.

They find a man at a local inn who resembles the coloring but are unaware that he is their enemy (seeing as how they gag him so he couldn't speak). Rowena completes the deed she is forced to do but the man they held captive is Warrick deChaville who will eventually exact his revenge on Rowena and her step-brother.

I couldn't put this book down. I love medieval romance and this did not disappoint.

From the back cover...

Spirited Rowena Belleme must produce an heir-or incur the dangerous wrath of a ruthless stepbrother who stands to forfeit his ill-gotten wealth. And the magnificent Warrick deChaville is the perfect choice to sire her child-though it means imprisoning the handsome knight-and forcing him to bend to her amorous whims.

Vowing to resist but betrayed by his own virility, noble Warrick, is intoxicated by Rowena's sapphire eyes and voluptuous beauty. Yet all the while he plans a fitting revenge-eagerly awaiting the time when his sensuous captor becomes his helpless captive...and is made to suffer the same rapturous torment and exquisite ecstasy that he himself has endured.

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