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2 | Elizabeth Chadwick's debut novel ''The Wild Hunt'', and its sequels ''The Running Vixen'' and ''The Leopard Unleashed'', span two generations of a feudal family during the reign of UsefulNotes/TheHouseOfNormandy. |
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5 | !!''The Wild Hunt Trilogy'' provides examples of: |
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7 | * ArrangedMarriage |
8 | * UsefulNotes/TheCrusades |
9 | * DecadentCourt: "It's fortunate that Anselm of Canterbury isn't here, he'd have a seizure." |
10 | * EvenTheGuysWantHim: |
11 | -->De Belleme smiled. 'I have yet to meet a woman who is not taken in by Guyon's charm.' |
12 | -->'Or a man for that matter!' guffawed de Lacey. 'It is not every bride can count the King as her rival for her husband's body!' |
13 | * [[EverythingSoundsSexierInFrench Everything Sounds Sexier in Welsh]] |
14 | * EvilUncle: Robert de Belleme. |
15 | * FeudalOverlord |
16 | * HistoricalFiction: Set during the 12th-century Welsh March Wars. |
17 | * HistoricalDomainCharacter: William the Conqueror's sons. |
18 | * IAmNotMyFather: Adam de Lacey. |
19 | * LukeIAmYourFather: [[spoiler: More of a "Luke, I am your father-in-law", from Guyon's drinking buddy.]] |
20 | * MaritalRapeLicense: Judith's parents' marriage. |
21 | * TheMissusAndTheEx: Judith and Rhosyn, Eleanor and Olwen. |
22 | * ReallyGetsAround: Prince Henry. Also Guyon, although some of it supposedly was to show the King where his interests lied. |
23 | * TheReveal: [[spoiler: Judith's real father.]] |
24 | * RoyalBrat: Empress Maud. |
25 | * SexlessMarriage: Due to Judith's [[ParalyzingFearOfSexuality Paralyzing Fear Of Sexuality]], Guyon initiates this. |
26 | * ShesAllGrownUp: Eleanor |
27 | * TallDarkAndHandsome: Guyon. |
28 | * TeenPregnancy: [[spoiler:Gender-inversed with Prince Henry fathering Judith at 14.]] |
29 | * WiseBeyondTheirYears: [[spoiler: "He was fourteen years old and I was twenty-eight, and in one night he taught me everything that [my husband] did not have the imagination to know."]] |
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