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2Elizabeth 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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