…a Medieval menage romance, from Black Velvet Seductions (as a paperback or ebook), Amazon (paperback or Kindle download), All Romance Ebooks, Barnes & Noble Nook Book, Mobipocket
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Think medieval times…
Gloriana is a young widow, brutalized in her first marriage, and is certain she will never know real love.
Thomas is a hardened warrior lord, widowed with no desire to marry again.
Rowan is Thomas’s first knight, friend, and his lover.
Their king is determined to have his way…
REVIEW: Bodice Ripper Novels – Sept. 19, 2011 – A/A- rating
MY THOUGHTS: I really liked this story. There were three main characters and all were likeable. The sex scenes between Rowan and Thomas were my favorite. They were very explicit and there were more between them than there were between them/Gloriana and Thomas/Gloriana.
Thomas and Rowan had been lovers for six months before Thomas married Gloriana. Gloriana never had a problem with their sexual relationship and was fascinated by it at first. I wish the scenes between the three had been more detailed and longer. Perhaps if the story had been longer than 200 pages that could have happened.
I didn’t really care for the part about Thomas wanting his son back. I wasn’t all that interested in reading about a child. Overall I was satisfied with this story and would like to read a sequel.
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Chris of Night Owl Review – June 14, 2011 – 4:00/5 rating
While being part of the aristocracy had its perks, it also meant your life could change with the king’s whim. So it is for Thomas and Gloriana. King Edward decrees Thomas will wed Gloriana, thus securing her castle after her husband’s death in the crusades. Told her of her husband’s death in one breath and her impending marriage in another are a shock to say the least. Her guilt at not feeling bad after learning of her husband’s death is nothing compared to her dread of a new one. Perhaps she will finally get the one thing she wants from marriage: a child.
Thomas lost his first wife in childbirth and refuses to chance another. While his first marriage was a shambles, he feels for his new wife like he never did his first. He would never survive her loss. And the fact that she understands and condones his relationship with his first knight Rowan makes her even more precious. When loving another man is cause for death, he realizes the gift Gloriana is. When she bravely inserts herself in his and Rowans lovemaking, he is truly happy for the first time in his life. Can this feeling last? Or will his fight to retrieve his son, who has been raised by his sister and her husband for 10 years, result in losing it all?
I loved romances set in the medieval era. This was a change of pace with the ménage. People were so pious (Thomas was returning from the Crusades) that homosexuality or bisexuality resulted in violence, as is illustrated in this story. You have to feel for Thomas and Glori as they are merely pawns on the chessboard of the King. I found myself more drawn to the romance between Rowan and Thomas since it was more established and based on feelings rather than circumstance. Not that Thomas, Glori and Rowan don’t fall in love, but would they have if not thrown together? The use of Thomas’s fear of Glori dying in childbirth was a real one in that time, as was Glori’s maternal yearnings. A very emotional read, with interesting relationships in addition to the main characters. As well as lots of hot variations of sex between all possible combinations of two men and a woman.
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In medieval times honorable men had to do what was required of them by the kings to whom they were loyal…
Thomas Lancaster, a widower with bad memories of marriage and a young son he barely knew was a hardened knight loyal to his king. In reward for his efforts fighting in the Crusades, King Edward gave him Middlemound Castle to hold for the crown. But the king decreed that he must marry the beautiful young widow of the castle’s previous lord.
Lady Gloriana Stewart had suffered brutally in her first marriage and had no desire to marry again. Yet she had no choice. She had to protect her people and obey her king.
All she wanted was for her new husband to give her a baby.
Having already lost one wife in childbirth, Thomas refused to even consider it.
Sir Rowan Montgomery, Thomas’s first knight, friend, and lover complicated the situation even more. Thomas didn’t want to give up Rowan and Gloriana didn’t want to admit she had feelings for her husband and for Rowan.
