Winterbourne (1987)

Copyright © 1998-2006 Xenoscience, Inc. and Elaine Gignilliat

Copyright © 1998-2006 Xenoscience, Inc. and Elaine Gignilliat

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For generations, the St. Legers of Cornwall have borne strange talents: visions of the future, spirit walking, healing - their inheritance from the sorcerer Prospero St. Leger. For each generation there is a Bride Finder, whose gift brings to each St. Leger a love that will last forever, even through death and beyond.

To reject the Bride Finder's choice is said to guarantee tragedy. Valentine St. Leger is a compassionate doctor whose touch can perform miracles, though he must bear the pain of those he tends. Years ago Val used his talent to save his twin - and was left lame, haunted by constant pain. But his greatest burden is facing his empty future - for the Bride Finder has decreed that there will never be a bride for him. Kate Fitzleger loves Val more than life itself and is certain they are meant for each other. So the wild, passionate beauty steals powerful sorcery, intending to bend fate to her will - even as an old enemy unleashes a treacherous plot to refashion Val St. Leger's destiny.

Ariane, the Lady of Faire Isle, is renowned for her mystical skills. When a stranger arrives, close to death and possessing incriminating evidence against the Dark Queen, Ariane must forge a liaison with the comte de Renard, a nobleman whose family secrets rival her own and the man she once spurned. As Catherine vows vengeance. Ariane and Renard answer with defiance --- even as they tempt destruction, desire, and the devious hand of fate.

From Brittany's fog-shrouded forests to the elegant dark heart of Paris's royal court, one woman must challenge a country's destiny - and her own dangerous fate.

France, 1585. She is the youngest and most powerful of the “Sisters of Faire Isle,” women known far and wide for their extraordinary mystical abilities. Skilled in healing and able to forecast the future of those around her, Miri Cheney has returned to her ancestral home to take refuge from a land devastated by civil war - and to grieve for her family, driven to exile. But she cannot hide from the formidable new power threatening to seize control of France from the dread “Dark Queen,” Catherine de Medici - a diabolical woman known only as the Silver Rose. Miri has no choice but to turn to the one man she distrusts as much as she desires: Simon Aristide, the charismatic witch-finder who is now himself the hunted, and who has reluctantly made an unholy pact with Catherine. Miri must defy throne and family to save all that she loves most - and command a future greater than she could ever imagine.

Vibrant with stunning historical detail, alive with characters as richly passionate as they are compelling, The Silver Rose is a sweeping, exquisitely wrought tale from a mesmerizing storyteller.

Dalle foreste immerse nella nebbia della Bretagna all'elegante cuore oscuro della corte reale di Parigi, una donna deve sfidare il destino di un paese - e il proprio pericoloso fato.

Franzia, 1585. Lei è la più giovane e potente delle "Sorelle dell'Isola delle Fate", donne conosciute in tutto il mondo per le loro straordinario capacità mistiche. Abile nel curare e nel predire il futuro di quelli che le stanno intorno, Miri Cheney è ritornata alla sua casa avita per rifugiarsi in una terra devastata dalla guerra civile - e per piangere la sua famiglia, mandata in esilio. Ma non si può nascondere dal formidabile nuovo potere che minaccia di prendere il controllo della Francia dalla "Regina Nera", Caterina de Medici - una donna diabolica conosciuta solo come la Rosa d'Argento. Miri non ha scelta se non rivolgersi all'unico uomo di cui non si fida almeno quanto desidera: Simon Aristide, il carismatico mago cercatore che è ora esso stesso cacciato, e che ha fatto malvolentieri un patto satanico con Caterina. Miri deve sfidare il trono e la famiglia per salvare tutto quello che ama di più - e comandare un futuro più grande di quanto avrebbe potuto immaginare.

Vibrante di sorprendenti dettagli storici. vivo con personaggi riccamente appassionati quanto coinvolgenti, The Silver Rose è uno squisito racconto di una affascinante cantastorie.

Fun, intricately plotted and with lots of derring-do, Carroll's latest should be popular with fans of historical romance. With a temper to match her fiery hair, Catriona O'Hanlon leaves her liege, Ariane, the Lady of the Fair Isle, to locate a sorceress's daughter and bring her to the Faire Isle, where she can be protected from the Dark Queen and the coven of the Silver Rose. The girl's father, Martin Le Loup, is living incognito with his daughter in London as dapper Englishman Martin Wolfe. Martin's an agent for Queen Elizabeth's spymaster and is conflicted about his job to ferret out Catholic threats to her majesty. As Cat and Martin spar with and fall for one another, danger lurks in the forms of the coven and the Medici. Carroll strikes a balance between froth and craftsmanship. (Publishers Weekly)