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* '''Author''': [[Robyn Carr]]
 
* '''Author''': [[Robyn Carr]]
 
* '''Publisher''': [[Little Brown and Company|Little Brown & Co]]
 
* '''Publisher''': [[Little Brown and Company|Little Brown & Co]]
 
* '''Year''': 1986
 
* '''Year''': 1986
* '''Amazon Listing''' - [http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0316129690/ref=nosim/103-3685024-2000659?n=283155 By Right Of Arms] - Out-of-Print
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* '''Editor''': [[Mary E. Tondorf-Dick]]
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* '''Amazon Listing''': [http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0316129690/ref=nosim/103-3685024-2000659?n=283155 By Right Of Arms] - Out-of-Print
  
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==Book Description==
 
Sir Hyatt Laidley, rewarded by Prince Edward, is sent to conquer De la Noye. As part of his prize, he claims the dead master's wife Aurelie. Aurelie does not accept her fate quietly, fighting her conqueror with everything she has.
 
Sir Hyatt Laidley, rewarded by Prince Edward, is sent to conquer De la Noye. As part of his prize, he claims the dead master's wife Aurelie. Aurelie does not accept her fate quietly, fighting her conqueror with everything she has.
  
A modern telling the [http://www.lib.rochester.edu/Camelot/Cinder/cin4.htm Patient Griselda] myth -- where Griselda is a chaste, above reproach wife whose love and fidelity is tested repeatedly (from "The Clerk's Tale", ''Canterbury Tales'' and Plutarch, among others)
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A modern telling of the [http://www.lib.rochester.edu/Camelot/Cinder/cin4.htm Patient Griselda] myth -- where Griselda is a chaste, above reproach wife whose love and fidelity is tested repeatedly (from "The Clerk's Tale", ''Canterbury Tales'' and Plutarch, among others)
  
 
== Awards ==  
 
== Awards ==  
* [[1987 Golden Medallion Winners|1987 Golden Medallion]] in the [[RITA®: Best Long Historical Romance|Historical Category]]
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* [[1986 Golden Medallion Winners & Finalists|1986 Golden Medallion]] for [[RITA®: Historical Romance Categories|Historical Romance]]

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Book Description

Sir Hyatt Laidley, rewarded by Prince Edward, is sent to conquer De la Noye. As part of his prize, he claims the dead master's wife Aurelie. Aurelie does not accept her fate quietly, fighting her conqueror with everything she has.

A modern telling of the Patient Griselda myth -- where Griselda is a chaste, above reproach wife whose love and fidelity is tested repeatedly (from "The Clerk's Tale", Canterbury Tales and Plutarch, among others)

Awards