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She is the daughter of his enemy...and the keeper of his heart.

Richard de Claiborne, the dark earl of Dunsmore, serves King Edward Plantagenet well. Sworn to obey his king's every order, he nevertheless chafes at the command he wed the daughter of his enemy - a man who slew his father in cold blood.

But King Edward wants peace in his lands, and he will stop at nothing to get it. If he has to order his most powerful Marcher lord to marry a Welsh princess, he considers it a small price to pay.

Princess Gwenllian is a political pawn. When she's forced to marry the evil Black Hawk de Claiborne, she quakes at his fierceness and brutality. But she does her duty to her father and her people, knowing she will never surrender to her enemy.

In the halls of Black Hawk's great keep, Gwen glimpses a man who can be tender and passionate - and who teaches her about breathtaking sensuality and a desire so great it threatens every vow she ever made to keep her heart locked tight.

As war once more looms between Wales and England, Gwen realizes a terrible truth: she's in love with the enemy. When long-buried secrets threaten to destroy her fragile happiness, she must make a terrible choice - or watch the man she loves sacrifice his life to save hers....

Contains mature themes.

©2016 Natasha Wild (P)2019 Tantor
Fiction Genre Fiction Historical Historical Fiction Romance Royalty Middle Ages Heartfelt
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Really enjoyed the story and the narrator was really good doing both the male and female voices (I usually find with romance that one of the voices sounds a bit ridiculous, but not in this case!)

Great story!

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Basic Welsh words so badly pronounced that they were an insult and spoilt the story.

Carnage of the Welsh language

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My one dislike: The female narrator reading the male elements of the story, it just would have been better with a male.

This was a lovely story, was written well. The Welsh accent was sometimes off for me and didn't seem authentic.

But I enjoyed the story as a whole. It was well written and the dialogue was engaging.

Not the ending I expected however, but welcomed.

great story

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Story is ok and an easy listen with some links to real history however the truly awful attempt at a South Wales accent for a North Wales character (although in reality we have no way of knowing the true accent back then) and the absolute butchering of Welsh names and place names had me cringing the whole way through. Several of the place names are well known too so there’s really no excuse.

Narration by someone I assume has never even heard of Wales

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As other reviewers have said this narrator's Welsh pronunciation is insulting to anybody Welsh and to Welsh history! However her English and French pronunciation is also horrendous. The accents change even in the same the same speech.
I could weep for the author as the narrator completely wrecks what is a decent, quite well researched book.( despite the sprinkling of 'gottens' in it)
Did the author have no agency in selecting this truly dreadful narrator? An insult to her too.

Good grief, how did this women get the job as a narrator?

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