It is a common practice by the Korwahk people with the purpose of finding wives for their warriors. To call The Wife Hunt brutal would be an understatement. She woke up in a an alternate parallel universe to ours in a corral with a whole bunch of women, most of whom didn’t even speak her language, who were penned there, half naked, waiting for “The Wife Hunt” to commence. The story follows Circe, who went to sleep one night in her bed in Seattle and woke up in a nightmare world.

There were parts of this book that were gruesome, brutal and sickening, parts that were swoony, heart-melting and utterly precious and ultimately it told a beautiful story about compromise, understanding and acceptance.

Its a story about two people overcoming extreme cultural differences for the sake of love. Kristen Ashley never ceases to amaze me with the beauty of the books she writes. Then she finds herself falling in love with this primitive land, its people and especially their savage leader.I ABSOLUTELY ADORED THIS BOOK!!!! WOW. But facing challenge after challenge, Circe finds her footing as Queen of the brutal Korwahk Horde and wife to its King. With one look at Circe, he knows she will be his bride and together they will start the Golden Dynasty of legend.Circe and Lahn are separated by language, culture and the small fact she's from a parallel universe and has no idea how she got there or how to get home. Then, in short order, she is installed very unwillingly on her white throne of horns as their Queen.Dax Lahn is the king of Suh Tunak, the Horde of the nation of Korwahk. She figures (rightly) this is not good and soon finds out that she's not having a wild dream, she's living a frightening nightmare where she's been transported to a barren land populated by a primitive people. Read full overviewĬirce Quinn, the office manager of her father's moving company, goes to sleep at home and wakes up in a corral filled with women wearing sacrificial virgin attire - and she's one of them. She figures (rightly) this is not good and soon finds out that. Circe Quinn, the office manager of her father's moving company, goes to sleep at home and wakes up in a corral filled with women wearing sacrificial virgin attire - and she's one of them.

The Golden Dynasty by Kristen Ashley