Lady Emmalene Eberhart wanted a baby. More than that, she
simply wanted her husband to do his deed and bed her. For
two years Emma had struggled with feeling inadequate and
unwanted, but that has all come to an end. Now the King
himself had issued an order, thanks to Emma's pleas, and
her husband was to consummate their marriage. And then he
died, so Emma was still a virgin. Now Emma was to marry a
man she has never met, a man who was taking his time in
arriving, and a man that she was to bed as soon as the
ceremony was over. To save herself and her people from her
cousin and his tyrannical mother, Emma would do almost
anything. Wedding and bedding the big brawny and handsome
man before her really did not seem quite that bad. Was that
all there was to marriage? If only her husband would stay
put maybe this time she can really be a wife and a mother.
For Amaury de Aneford, becoming a duke was a dream come
true. A bastard by birth, Amaury had worked all his life
for where he was now. The Lady Emmalene was anything but
the hag he had imagined. What kind of man was her first
husband, not to find the delicious blonde beautiful?
Bedding her is the least of his worries. Every step has
taken him closer and closer to ambush. With every step,
Amaury has been hunted. Someone wants him
dead and will stop at nothing to see it accomplished. There
is a traitor in their midst and Amaury's very life depends
on his ability to stop them!
THE DEED is yet another story from Lynsay Sands that I
simply have to love. THE DEED is filled with all the humor,
charm, and romance that I was looking for. From the first
pages I knew that Emmalene was going to be a woman after my
own heart. From her outlandish request of the King, her
bellowing attitude, to her demand to be the wife she never
could be; I simply loved her. Emmalene made me laugh at her
naivete and I found myself clinging to the rope of bed
sheets right along with her.
Amaury was not your typical hero. His background left a lot
to be desired, and he had some strange views on women and
just what
a wife is supposed to be. It was rather comical between the
two of them an all of their misconceptions. Watching them
grow, not only as a couple, but as two individuals brought
together by circumstance was a wonderful experience. Lynsay
Sands did a remarkable job creating these two characters
and in writing about the time period. It simply amazes me
the things that people believed all because the church told
them it was so. As funny as it was romantic, THE DEED is a
read that cannot be forgotten.
Lady Emmalene Eberhart was dying to do it. She even begged
the King to make her husband do it to her- because she
wanted to be a good wife. But then her husband died, and
Emmalene was still as much a virgin as on the day she wed.
Suddenly, the innocent young beauty found herself the
fulerum of a struggle for feudal power: Along with her ample
dowry, Emma found herself promised to Amery de Aneford, a
landless knight whose able sword had preserved the King's
crown - and whose rugged good looks made her heart skip a
beat. But on the wedding day, as a rival knight galloped
toward the bridal chamber, Amanry would find that making
love to his naive new bride would take consummate skill. For
in the conjugal bed, Emma was astonished to learn there was
more to a wedding night than just a sound sleep - and more
to true love than she'd ever imagined.
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