Dear Judith ,I ve loved all your books,but I do have a sincere request,that the heroines should not be RAPED on their wedding night,a recurrent theme in Whitney my love and once and always.It ruined the story for me.Thank YOU.it's a request.A heroines should be empowered not disempoqwred in order to rise.

Whitney, My Love was written in the late 1970s/early 1980s, and Once & Always was written circa 1986. Female empowerment wasn't a major theme in historical romances back then the way it has become in recent decades. To be honest, the two scenes you refer to above pale in comparison to a great number of scenes in other novels from the 70s/80s. If you chastise every author who wrote rape scenes during those two decades, you'd have a lot of letters to write.

At any rate, since she hasn't written anything even remotely resembling rape in nearly 30 years, I think you are safe. lol