HaBO: He Cuts His Thigh as Proof of Consummation

[Artemis Gordon]

This HaBO is from Kathryn, who wants to find this historical romance:

I’m looking for a romance I covertly traded with a friend on the school bus way back in high school, so around 1999-2003. It was a historical romance, set in medieval Scotland. It was a forced marriage/marriage of convenience between a Scottish laird and a possibly English lady. The one defining detail seared into my brain was that on their wedding night, she convinced him she wasn’t ready and he cut his thigh so the sheets would be stained with blood and everyone would think they had done the deed.

I want to say it was set on an island of Skye or Skye was in the title? And the cover might have had some red and the couple standing in front of a highly suggestive tower.

This sounds very familiar, particularly the cover description!

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