Mary Wine

Helena asks for Laird Keir McQuade's help in escaping from Edmund, her brother, and stopping Edmund's plot to sabotage one of the queen's ladies-in-waiting.

Bedding the Enemy

Bedding the Enemy was a brilliant story and I really enjoyed this one. I so WISH I could have found it in audio though, I am not sure why it wasn't possible to find when the other books in the series are. So I did have to physically read this book. I really loved the setting though. I feel like its more rare to read this era and have it in a court setting. This is where we see King James Stewart in the beginning of his reign before he lost his family, we see him with his wife Anne and loved how well Mary Wine wrote this aspect, you could see them so in love and their story historically is heartbreaking. But I loved seeing this story set before all the bad things happen and they are still in the glow of their reign. Our hero is a child of a man who betrayed the king and has come to London to commit himself to the King and he runs into a beauty, who is soft and feminine....Helena Knyvett. She is being abused and manipulated by her brother, and fairly early on its evident in the story. The king encourages Keir to pursue Helena. I loved the historical aspects in this one. Mary Wine is queen and I really need to get through her backlist and see what her newer books are like. Hopefully they are just as good as her trad works are. (if you have read her newer stuff let me know what you think)!!!!

Bedding the Enemy is NOT what the title implies. There is very minimal angst in the relationship itself, its actually outer angst. The brother is against the relationship, he doesn't want her happy at all. We see how evil her brother really is and I felt so heartbroken for Helena and how abusive he is. I did enjoy the romance that develops between Keir and Helena. I love how protective Keir is of Helena and really of women in general. He is honestly such a good guy hero and we need more of these. I loved the way we see the conflict arise in the second half of the book though. We see the King being put in a bad position politically. The courtly politics was done so so well here. This book is set in the era shortly after the tudor era and we are see what King Henry 8th really did to the court and how it affected it afterwards.

Overall I had a solid time with this one here, and their relationship was fascinating. I loved the historical setting and era that this book takes place in, and how invested Keir and Helena are in the relationship. Super superb in every way. If you love historical romance and want to dig deeper in medieval, this author is a must read.

Lover of Romance 

My Review:

Bedding the Enemy was a brilliant story and I really enjoyed this one. I so WISH I could have found it in audio though, I am not sure why it wasn't possible to find when the other books in the series are. So I did have to physically read this book. I really loved the setting though. I feel like its more rare to read this era and have it in a court setting. This is where we see King James Stewart in the beginning of his reign before he lost his family, we see him with his wife Anne and loved how well Mary Wine wrote this aspect, you could see them so in love and their story historically is heartbreaking. But I loved seeing this story set before all the bad things happen and they are still in the glow of their reign. Our hero is a child of a man who betrayed the king and has come to London to commit himself to the King and he runs into a beauty, who is soft and feminine....Helena Knyvett. She is being abused and manipulated by her brother, and fairly early on its evident in the story. The king encourages Keir to pursue Helena. I loved the historical aspects in this one. Mary Wine is queen and I really need to get through her backlist and see what her newer books are like. Hopefully they are just as good as her trad works are. (if you have read her newer stuff let me know what you think)!!!!

Bedding the Enemy is NOT what the title implies. There is very minimal angst in the relationship itself, its actually outer angst. The brother is against the relationship, he doesn't want her happy at all. We see how evil her brother really is and I felt so heartbroken for Helena and how abusive he is. I did enjoy the romance that develops between Keir and Helena. I love how protective Keir is of Helena and really of women in general. He is honestly such a good guy hero and we need more of these. I loved the way we see the conflict arise in the second half of the book though. We see the King being put in a bad position politically. The courtly politics was done so so well here. This book is set in the era shortly after the tudor era and we are see what King Henry 8th really did to the court and how it affected it afterwards.

Overall I had a solid time with this one here, and their relationship was fascinating. I loved the historical setting and era that this book takes place in, and how invested Keir and Helena are in the relationship. Super superb in every way. If you love historical romance and want to dig deeper in medieval, this author is a must read.

Bedding the Enemy

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