Main Characters In The Border Chronicles By Bertrice Small

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"The Border Chronicles" is a series that was written by Bertrice Small, an author of historical romance and erotica, that has appeared on many different best seller lists in her long career. She is also considered the queen of historical fiction, and writes with an erotica and earthy style. The series takes place in the English and Scottish borderlands before and during the Tudors period. The main character of the first book is Adair Radcliffe, stubborn, beautiful, the bastard daughter of Edward IV and countess of Stanton. The second book is about Ellen MacArthur, and so on. The series uses certain scenes told multiple times through multiple viewpoints. Each book focuses on a different main character, and is set in a different time period. They all feature sharp, strong, and beautiful heroines, and heroes that are able to handle them. And vice versa.

"A Dangerous Love" was the first book in "The Border Chronicles" series. During the War of the Roses, Adair 's parents die when she is six. Adair is taken in by King Edward (who is her real father, and takes her in to honor his promise that he made to her mother) and raised in the royal nursery. She leaves the estate at the very young age of sixteen to avoid marrying someone she does not want to marry. The man she was being forced to …show more content…

Ellen MacArthur goes to King James 's court to wait out a crisis that involves her grandfather Ewan 's estate. While there, she befriends the King and his aunt, and when she returns home, is given border lord Duncan Armstrong as an escort back home. When they get back to her home, Balgair, who was involved in said inheritance talks, kills her fiance and Ewan to make her miserable. Duncan must pay back the favor that he asks for by marrying someone he does not love, the very thing that he said he would not ever do. He realizes that he must choose between the woman he must marry and the one he wants to

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