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gaiamoore17I didn't read this book but someone else was trying to find this book for 6 years and had no luck so I thought I would try posting their description here.
"I remember reading this fantasy romance novel about a princess (or of a similar standing) being arranged to marry prince from another dark place. I can't seem to remember the name of the book and I never got around to finishing it. Every year, several times a year, I try to do random searches on the net to see if new search terms will reveal this book to me.
I have failed for the past 6 years, so I thought it was high time I asked you guys.
This is what I remember from the novel:
1) The heroine was betrothed from someone from her kingdom/place.
2) She was arranged to be married off for reasons of alliance.
3) It was not forced, in the sense that she knew it was her duty to do the best she could for her people. Her parents also loved her and loathed to have her married off.
4) She sees the hero for the first time at her wedding, she describes him as big and wearing all black. She is somewhat afraid of him.
5) They leave for his kingdom, pretty much after the wedding. On the way there they are assaulted by a band of bandits, or enemies who do not want this alliance (can't remember which one).
6) The heroine is pretty good with a sword and uses that to defend herself. Her new husband becomes enraged that she would defy his orders to stay in the carriage. This other older man is there, a knight? but someone who is almost fatherly towards the hero (later on the heroine finds out that this older man is the hero's father).
7) The couple consummate their wedding in a pond on the way to his kingdom. An affront to my since found feminist sensibilities, but the heroine was a virgin.
8) The hero's castle/home is described as dark, gloomy.
9) The hero lives with his mother and mother's father (the king?) in the castle. The grandfather hates the hero's mother. His mother was married to someone
10) I think, now here, my memory becomes a little fuzzy, but the heroine might have some powers of healing?
11) There is a scene in the bathtub between her and the hero. I don't know why I remember these scenes. :D
12) The heroine finds out something that might affect her kingdom's safety and so she gets on a horse and rides all the way back to her kingdom. She knows that her husband will come back to get her. He does."
"I remember reading this fantasy romance novel about a princess (or of a similar standing) being arranged to marry prince from another dark place. I can't seem to remember the name of the book and I never got around to finishing it. Every year, several times a year, I try to do random searches on the net to see if new search terms will reveal this book to me.
I have failed for the past 6 years, so I thought it was high time I asked you guys.
This is what I remember from the novel:
1) The heroine was betrothed from someone from her kingdom/place.
2) She was arranged to be married off for reasons of alliance.
3) It was not forced, in the sense that she knew it was her duty to do the best she could for her people. Her parents also loved her and loathed to have her married off.
4) She sees the hero for the first time at her wedding, she describes him as big and wearing all black. She is somewhat afraid of him.
5) They leave for his kingdom, pretty much after the wedding. On the way there they are assaulted by a band of bandits, or enemies who do not want this alliance (can't remember which one).
6) The heroine is pretty good with a sword and uses that to defend herself. Her new husband becomes enraged that she would defy his orders to stay in the carriage. This other older man is there, a knight? but someone who is almost fatherly towards the hero (later on the heroine finds out that this older man is the hero's father).
7) The couple consummate their wedding in a pond on the way to his kingdom. An affront to my since found feminist sensibilities, but the heroine was a virgin.
8) The hero's castle/home is described as dark, gloomy.
9) The hero lives with his mother and mother's father (the king?) in the castle. The grandfather hates the hero's mother. His mother was married to someone
10) I think, now here, my memory becomes a little fuzzy, but the heroine might have some powers of healing?
11) There is a scene in the bathtub between her and the hero. I don't know why I remember these scenes. :D
12) The heroine finds out something that might affect her kingdom's safety and so she gets on a horse and rides all the way back to her kingdom. She knows that her husband will come back to get her. He does."