diff --git a/Frontmatter.Test/DelimiterLineTests.cs b/Frontmatter.Test/DelimiterLineTests.cs
index f418972..34eacb2 100644
--- a/Frontmatter.Test/DelimiterLineTests.cs
+++ b/Frontmatter.Test/DelimiterLineTests.cs
@@ -107,6 +107,43 @@ public void AddFrontmatter_ExistingFrontmatterIsEmpty_AddsTheProperties()
 		Assert.AreEqual($"---{Nl}author: B{Nl}---{Nl}Body{Nl}", result);
 	}
 
+	[TestMethod]
+	public void ExtractBody_RuleUnderHeaderAroundNonYamlText_KeepsTheWholeBody()
+	{
+		string input = $"---{Nl}title: A{Nl}---{Nl}---{Nl}Important paragraph{Nl}{Nl}---{Nl}More{Nl}";
+
+		Assert.AreEqual($"---{Nl}Important paragraph{Nl}{Nl}---{Nl}More", Frontmatter.ExtractBody(input));
+		Assert.AreEqual($"---{Nl}Important paragraph{Nl}{Nl}---{Nl}More{Nl}", Frontmatter.RemoveFrontmatter(input));
+	}
+
+	[TestMethod]
+	public void AddFrontmatter_RuleUnderHeaderAroundNonYamlText_KeepsTheWholeBody()
+	{
+		string input = $"---{Nl}title: A{Nl}---{Nl}---{Nl}Important paragraph{Nl}{Nl}---{Nl}More{Nl}";
+
+		string result = Frontmatter.AddFrontmatter(input, new Dictionary<string, object> { ["author"] = "B" });
+
+		Assert.AreEqual($"---{Nl}title: A{Nl}author: B{Nl}---{Nl}---{Nl}Important paragraph{Nl}{Nl}---{Nl}More{Nl}", result);
+	}
+
+	[TestMethod]
+	public void CombineFrontmatter_RuleUnderHeaderAroundYamlLikeText_DoesNotMergeItIntoTheHeader()
+	{
+		string input = $"---{Nl}title: My Post{Nl}---{Nl}---{Nl}Note: read this first{Nl}{Nl}---{Nl}{Nl}# Heading{Nl}";
+
+		string result = Frontmatter.CombineFrontmatter(input, FrontmatterNaming.AsIs, FrontmatterOrder.AsIs, FrontmatterMergeStrategy.None);
+
+		Assert.AreEqual(input, result);
+	}
+
+	[TestMethod]
+	public void ExtractBody_EmptyBlockUnderHeader_KeepsTheRulesInTheBody()
+	{
+		string input = $"---{Nl}title: A{Nl}---{Nl}---{Nl}---{Nl}Body{Nl}";
+
+		Assert.AreEqual($"---{Nl}---{Nl}Body", Frontmatter.ExtractBody(input));
+	}
+
 	[TestMethod]
 	[DataRow("--- ", DisplayName = "Trailing space")]
 	[DataRow("---\t", DisplayName = "Trailing tab")]
diff --git a/Frontmatter/Frontmatter.cs b/Frontmatter/Frontmatter.cs
index 18a4a8f..fcdb2cd 100644
--- a/Frontmatter/Frontmatter.cs
+++ b/Frontmatter/Frontmatter.cs
@@ -337,8 +337,9 @@ private static List<Dictionary<string, object>> ExtractFrontmatterObjects(string
 	/// Delimiters are recognised only as whole lines, so a <c>---</c> inside a value or a markdown
 	/// horizontal rule in the body is never mistaken for one. The first line opens a block, which closes
 	/// at the next delimiter line, including one at the very end of the document. Further blocks are
-	/// consumed only while each opens on the line straight after the previous one closed; the body is
-	/// everything after the last block consumed.
+	/// consumed only while each opens on the line straight after the previous one closed and holds
+	/// frontmatter rather than body text (see <see cref="IsFollowOnBlock"/>); the body is everything after
+	/// the last block consumed.
 	/// </remarks>
 	/// <param name="input">The markdown document content as a string.</param>
 	/// <param name="blocks">The raw text of each frontmatter block, in document order.</param>
@@ -372,9 +373,19 @@ private static bool TrySplitFrontmatterBlocks(string input, out List<string> blo
 				break;
 			}
 
-			blocks.Add(close == next + 1
+			string block = close == next + 1
 				? string.Empty
-				: input[lines[next + 1].Start..lines[close - 1].End]);
+				: input[lines[next + 1].Start..lines[close - 1].End];
+
+			// A thematic break placed directly under the header looks like the start of another block.
+			// Only the first block is taken on trust; a later one must look like frontmatter, or it and
+			// everything after it stay in the body.
+			if (blocks.Count > 0 && !IsFollowOnBlock(block, lines, next, close, input))
+			{
+				break;
+			}
+
+			blocks.Add(block);
 			next = close + 1;
 		}
 
@@ -387,6 +398,33 @@ private static bool TrySplitFrontmatterBlocks(string input, out List<string> blo
 		return true;
 	}
 
+	/// <summary>
+	/// Checks whether a block that follows the first one is really frontmatter rather than body text
+	/// set between two thematic breaks.
+	/// </summary>
+	/// <remarks>
+	/// A follow-on block has to hold a non-empty YAML mapping, and it may not open or close with a blank
+	/// line. Stacked headers are written tight against their delimiters, whereas markdown around a
+	/// thematic break is usually spaced out from it, so a blank line marks the block as body text even
+	/// when that text happens to parse as YAML.
+	/// </remarks>
+	/// <param name="block">The raw text between the block's delimiters.</param>
+	/// <param name="lines">The lines of the document.</param>
+	/// <param name="open">The index of the block's opening delimiter line.</param>
+	/// <param name="close">The index of the block's closing delimiter line.</param>
+	/// <param name="input">The document.</param>
+	/// <returns>True if the block should be read as frontmatter, false if it belongs to the body.</returns>
+	private static bool IsFollowOnBlock(string block, List<(int Start, int End)> lines, int open, int close, string input)
+	{
+		bool IsBlankAt(int index) => string.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(input[lines[index].Start..lines[index].End]);
+
+		return close > open + 1
+			&& !IsBlankAt(open + 1)
+			&& !IsBlankAt(close - 1)
+			&& YamlSerializer.TryParseYamlObject(block.Trim(), out Dictionary<string, object>? properties)
+			&& properties.Count > 0;
+	}
+
 	/// <summary>
 	/// Finds the lines of a document, recognising CRLF, LF and CR endings wherever they occur.
 	/// </summary>