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"A delightully sensual medieval romance"
Reviewed by Harriet Klausner
Posted September 13, 2002

During the last decade of the fifteenth century, she was an orphan as a young child and a widow twice before she turned thirteen including her first marriage to her five-year-old first cousin. Her Uncle Henry Bolton knows that his niece Rosamund is a prize he manipulates because though Read more...

"The start of a fabulous new series!"
Reviewed by Kathy Boswell
Posted October 13, 2002

Rosamund Bolton, heiress to Friarsgate, is married and widowed before she has even turned thirteen years of age, thanks to her Uncle Henry who only covets Friarsgate for himself and his heirs. Rosamund's second husband, Hugh, was sixty years old when they married. Hugh decided that he would not only Read more...

Summary

From Bertrice Small, the beloved "queen of romance," (Publishers Weekly) comes a sweeping new novel of a young girl's unexpected journey into womanhood, into mystery and passion, and into history...

Her name is Rosamund Bolton. She is heiress to the Friarsgate fortune. More than a splendid inheritance, it will chart the fate of the orphaned beauty, widowed at a precious young age. It will take her from the treacherous custody of her devious uncle to the magnificent court of Elizabeth of York, into the confidence of Katherine of Aragon, and past the intimate chamber doors of Henry VIII. It's an adventure that will test the limits of passion and betrayal; it will change the meaning of the word enemy, and turn even the most daring fantasy into true love.

With this first novel in an original and exciting new series, the adventures of Rosamund are just beginning...