Stone Rose

• Author: Carol Townend
• Publisher: Headline
• Year: 1992
• ISBN: 0747240086
• Setting: Medieval France and England
• Series: The Herevi Sagas
• Amazon Listing: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Stone-Rose-Carol-Townend/dp/0747240086/ref=sr_1_11?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1199913959&sr=8-11

Book Description

This 12th century saga set in Brittany and England, centres on the life and loves of delicate, beautiful Gwenn, the innocent but illegitimate daughter of Sir Jean St Clair and his concubine Yolande. Gwenn is chased by a mob, stoned, suffers the burning down of the only home she has ever known and, when her mother’s relationship with her father is legitimised, the destruction of her father’s Breton manor by his rival Count François de Roncier.

Escaping a bloody attack on her entire household, Gwenn has to flee with her baby brother and young sister. While saving her siblings, she finds herself beholden to two mercenaries who once worked for the very man whose thugs have just torn her family apart. As the story develops Gwenn marries one of the mercenaries: it is a tender but not a passionate marriage of convenience. True love awaits Gwenn in the arms of another…

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Reviews

'passionate and poignant'

       - Lancashire Evening Post

'an absorbing story full of colour, vigour and romance'

        - Birmingham Evening Post

'startlingly dramatic and compelling reading'

         - Million

Excerpt

Her eyes were dark as sloes. They were inviting. He let her keep his hands and cautiously dipped his head so his mouth found hers. It was the first time they had kissed as lovers and it was very sweet. Her lips were warm. They trembled beneath his, and while she did not fling herself at him, she did not draw back either. Her eyes were huge watching him and something in them made his insides melt. And then because the sight of her was threatening to make him lose control, Alan shut his eyes, fought down a desire to snatch her into his arms, and made his mouth explore hers slowly.