Interesting, Lisa.
[spoilers below]
I think it's the Theone series that I started and read several of the books before the end of one so irritated me that I didn't read the next one in large part because, from the description, the young widow of... Moeshi? the Jewish boy and Muslim girl who both converted to Christianity then got married and he was killed the next day - wasn't going to be in it at all and I wanted to know what happened to her. I realize in that day and time, it was unlikely that they'd get a happily ever after but a girl can dream and his death caught me off guard. Not to the point I wish I hadn't read it but to the point that I haven't read any more of the series...
