Is Fantasy okay? If so the fantasy novel ‘Warbreaker’ by Brandon Sanderson has a main character be in an arranged marriage and their storyline focuses on that aspect.
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The romance in Kate Elliott’s “Spiritwalker” trilogy grows out of an arranged marriage. I think there’s some fade-to-black sex in book two and three. But it’s pretty YA-level spice.
It’s a fantasy/historical AU, set around the Napoleonic Wars. Also the ice age never ended, the New World was never colonized, Rome lost the Punic wars, and the Malian Empire decamped to Britain. The protagonist is a Phoenician spy who’s forced to marry a Malian-British mage.
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Check out: Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows by Balli Kaur Jaswal. It’s a really hilarious, dry, and poignant discussion of arranged marriage.
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**Golden Terrace** by Cang Wu Bin Bai- there are several sex scenes but they’re all fade to black so it’s not explicit
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A Winter’s Promise – Christelle Dabos
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Not the marriages themselves but the arranging of them: The Marriage Bureau for Rich People by Farahad Zama. I read it years ago, but I thought it was a nice book
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The marriage portrait by maggie o’farrell
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A thousand splendid suns
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Every marriage so far in the Masters of Rome series.
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Is Fantasy okay? If so the fantasy novel ‘Warbreaker’ by Brandon Sanderson has a main character be in an arranged marriage and their storyline focuses on that aspect.
The romance in Kate Elliott’s “Spiritwalker” trilogy grows out of an arranged marriage. I think there’s some fade-to-black sex in book two and three. But it’s pretty YA-level spice.
It’s a fantasy/historical AU, set around the Napoleonic Wars. Also the ice age never ended, the New World was never colonized, Rome lost the Punic wars, and the Malian Empire decamped to Britain. The protagonist is a Phoenician spy who’s forced to marry a Malian-British mage.
Check out: Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows by Balli Kaur Jaswal. It’s a really hilarious, dry, and poignant discussion of arranged marriage.
**Golden Terrace** by Cang Wu Bin Bai- there are several sex scenes but they’re all fade to black so it’s not explicit
A Winter’s Promise – Christelle Dabos
Not the marriages themselves but the arranging of them: The Marriage Bureau for Rich People by Farahad Zama. I read it years ago, but I thought it was a nice book
The marriage portrait by maggie o’farrell
A thousand splendid suns
Every marriage so far in the Masters of Rome series.
Haru no Yuki by Mishima Yukio
Brick Lane by Monica Ali