A small Kansas town. A serial killer. Valerie Yates is a young widow tormented by unanswered questions. Was her late husband, a police officer, investigating the Rose Killer in secret? What was his involvement with the third victim, a beautiful young woman? Valerie "s search for answers reveals the
The silver rose: a novel
β Scribed by Susan Carroll
- Publisher
- Random House Publishing Group;Ballantine Books
- Year
- 2006
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 269 KB
- Category
- Fiction
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β¦ Synopsis
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...
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