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So guys, got a bit of a thorny question (also, not so much a question for younger readers, just a heads up)

I’m planning to return to ’18 NaNoWriMo novel, which is a New Adult fantasy novel that I’m hoping to redraft sometime next year. My question came up while I was writing it, but since I was just doing a first draft I brushed it aside, but now that I’m working on it actively again, I need to address it.

My question basically is how to deal with love and (especially) se x between a married couple. The background is that I have three main characters and two of them are married. They’re the crown prince and princess and later king and queen of the country and were married young (hence why there’s a married couple as main characters in a New Adult novel). The subplot is an enemy to lovers romance between these two as they fall in love despite the rest of the plot that’s going on around them.  It’s also a retelling of the life of Marie Antoinette, who did not consummate her marriage with her husband until they’d been married seven years, which is also part of my plot.

Now obviously, this book is aimed at a Christian audience, or at the least an audience looking for a clean read, so there’s not going to be any on screen explicit stuff, but since they’re main characters I don’t feel like I can completely brush it over and I do believe it’s biblical to celebrate love and marriage…so how do I deal with this in a delicate and God-honouring manner?

Also, just to repeat, the target audience for this book is not young teens, it’s the 18-25 age range.