Queen of Lost Stars by Kathryn LeVeque

Queen of Lost Stars by Kathryn Le Veque
Genres: Fiction / Romance / Historical / Ancient World
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1320 A.D. - Madelayne Gray d'Ebreux is the queen of all that is lost. Her child, her husband... everything. Or, so she thinks. The same battle that killed her husband resulted in the serious injury of her husband's commander, Sir Kaspian St. Hever. As Kaspian lays badly wounded, Madelayne is asked to tend the man in a most unconventional and intimate way. Instead of using her milk to nurse her child, who was born dead, she nurses a man who is forbidden solid foods because of a belly wound. And so, a unusual and sometimes erotic relationship develops between Madelayne and her patient.Kaspian is tended by a woman who offers him her breasts as way of sustaining his life. At first, he looks at the situation as a necessity but he soon comes to crave it. He struggles to keep his feelings from the widowed woman but it becomes increasingly difficult. For a man who has known little compassion or kindness in his life, Madelayne comes to represent everything he has been missing. She soon becomes to represent everything he wants, and he wants her.Join Madelayne and Kaspian on their journey through life, loss, lust, and passion in this adventure - packed and unconventional Medieval Romance. Can Madelayne finally change her stars with Kaspian's help?

I normally love Kathryn Leveque . She is a master storyteller, but this plot was just plain hokey. A grown man nursing may sound sexy and erotic to some, but I find it disgusting. It’s like a horrible scene from Grapes of Wrath all over again.  As usual her battle scenes are phenomenal and her characters have a wonderful depth. But I can’t go along with this plot . Out of the thirty books that I have read of hers this one is the first and only disappointment so far.