History Creator / SimonaAhrnstedt

Simona Ahrnstedt (born in 1967) was a therapist (and still works as this half-time) until she became one of Sweden's leading writers in the [[RomanceNovel Romance genre]]. Her first three novels were historical love stories. Her debut from 2010, ''Överenskommelser'', takes place in the 1880s; ''Betvingade'' from 2012 takes place in 1349; ''De skandalösa'' from 2013 takes place in 1685. While the focus in these stories is on how two lovers will find happiness together, other themes are explored as well. It's so easy to believe that rich people always have been happy; after all, don't they live in big houses, wear fine clothes, go to fancy parties and have servants to do everything for them? But the reality behind the façade can be ugly, maybe even terrifying. And we only have to go back a handful of generations to end up in an era when women had far fewer rights than men had...

Simona Ahrnstedt (born in 1967) was a therapist (and still works as this half-time) until she became one of Sweden's leading writers in the [[RomanceNovel Romance genre]]. Her first three novels were historical love stories. Her debut from 2010, ''Överenskommelser'', takes place in the 1880s. ''Betvingade'' from 2012 takes place in 1349; ''De skandalösa'' from 2013 takes place in 1685. While the focus in these stories is on how two lovers will find happiness together, other themes are explored as well. It's so easy to believe that rich people always have been happy. After all, don't they live in big houses, wear fine clothes, go to fancy parties and have servants to do everything for them? But reality behind the facade can be ugly, maybe even terrifying. And we only have to go back a handful of generations to end up in an era, when women had much fewer rights than what men had...

To find more tropes from the novel "Överenskommelser", [[Literature/{{Overenskommelser}} click here]].

* LightFeminineDarkFeminine: In "De skandalösa", Magdalena Swärd (the story's female protagonist) ends up being a spicier contrast to Venus Dag och Natt, the girl who Gabriel (the story's male protagonist) has pretty much promised his mother that he will marry. Magdalena is the intelligent, brooding, cynical and more mature woman, who is not afraid to have sex with Gabriel to get what she wants (dark feminine). Venus is much more sweet-natured, beautiful, docile and slightly naive (then again, she might be a bit naive simply because she's only sixteen years old) (light feminine).

* TheyDo: ''Överenskommelser'' and ''De skandalösa'' end in this very fashion and the couples get together.

* CoitusEnsues: Simona's novels have plenty of sex scenes, and in ''Överenskommelser'', we also get a really long rape scene. These scenes would have worked just as well (or maybe even better) if they had been shorter and less detailed. Many of them aren't even necessary for the plot. But they're still there, and "De skandalösa" is close to being pure erotica.

* DeconReconSwitch / ReconstructedTrope:

* {{Adorkable}}:

* LightFeminineDarkFeminine: In "De skandalösa", Magdalena Swärd ends up being a contrast to Venus Dag och Natt, the girl who Gabriel (the story's male protagonist) pretty much promised his mother that he will marry. Magdalena is the intelligent, brooding, cynical and more mature woman, who is not afraid to have sex with Gabriel to get what she wants (dark feminine). Venus is much more sweet-natured, docile and slightly naive (then again, she might be a bit naive just because she's only sixteen years old) (light feminine).

* LightFeminineDarkFeminine: In "De skandalösa", Magdalena Swärd ends up being a contrast to Venus Dag och Natt, the girl who Gabriel (the story's male protagonist) has pretty much promised his mother that he will marry. Magdalena is the intelligent, brooding, cynical and more mature woman, who's not afraid to start a very sexual love affair with Gabriel even though it might hurt her reputation (dark feminine). Venus is much more sweet-natured, docile and slightly naive (then again, she might be naive just because she's only sixteen years old) (light feminine).

** In ''Överenskommelser'', Beatrice has Alexandre St Cyr D'Aubigny, and Seth has Lily Tremaine. But in the end, [[spoiler: Alexandre and Lily hook up, leaving Beatrice and Seth free to finally get their happy ending]].

* LightFeminineDarkFeminine: In ''De skandalösa'', Magdalena Swärd is intelligent, brooding, cynical and feisty (dark feminine), in a huge contrast to the sweet-natured, docile and slightly naive Venus Dag och Natt (light feminine).

* LightFeminineDarkFeminine: In ''De skandalösa'', Magdalena Swärd is the intelligent and brooding proto-feminist (dark feminine), while Venus Dag och Natt is so beautiful, lovely and docile (light feminine).

** In ''Överenskommelser'', we have Beatrice (a plucky DitzyGenius Fiery Redhead) as the Sanguine, Seth (ambitious, arrogant, charismatic, Hot-Blooded and proud) as the Choleric, Sofia (a docile and timid Proper Lady) as the Phlegmatic and Johan (the pretty much flawless NiceGuy) as the Leukine.

** In ''Betvingade'', we have Roland Birgersson ''and'' pretty much Illiana's whole family.

Simona Ahrnstedt (born in 1967) was a therapist (and still works as this half-time) until she became one of Sweden's leading writers in the [[RomanceNovel Romance genre]]. Her three novels so far have all been historical love stories. Her debut from 2010, ''Överenskommelser'', takes place in the 1880s. ''Betvingade'' from 2012 takes place in 1349; ''De skandalösa'' from 2013 takes place in 1685. While the focus in these stories is on how two lovers will find happiness together, other themes are explored as well. It's so easy to believe that rich people always have been happy. After all, don't they live in big houses, wear fine clothes, go to fancy parties and have servants to do everything for them? But reality behind the facade can be ugly, maybe even terrifying. And we only have to go back a handful of generations to end up in an era, when women had much fewer rights than what men had...

** Beatrice and Seth are a reconstruction of WrongGenreSavvy. They have misunderstood each other completely over and over (she believed that he's a Casanova, he believed that she's a Gold Digger), but they [[spoiler: can work things out in the end.]]

** Illiana and Markus in ''Betvingade'' are forced to marry each other, but it turns out [[PerfectlyArrangedMarriage well enough]].

* MarriageBeforeRomance / PerfectlyArrangedMarriage: Illiana and Markus in ''Betvingade'' get this. Due to some unfortunate circumstances, they're forced to marry each other. But it turns out well enough, as they start falling in love with each other...

* VillainOpeningScene: Ahrnstedt followed this trope in her first two novels. In ''Överenskommelser'', the prologue is from Edvard's POV. In "Betvingade", the prologue is from Roland's POV.

* NoAntagonist: There is no real antagonist in "De skandalösa". Gabriel's father was abusive, but he is now dead. [[spoiler: Peter Cronstedt]] is revealed to be a jerk, but you can hardly call him a ''villain''. The plot is more about the different couples getting to know each other (and having a lot of sex).

* No Antagonist: There is no real antagonist in "De skandalösa". Gabriel's father was abusive, but he is now dead. [[Spoiler: Peter Cronstedt]] is revealed to be a jerk, but you can hardly call him a ''villain''. The plot is more about the different couples getting to know each other (and having a lot of sex).