Ballantine
March 2006
On Sale: March 7, 2006
Featuring: Miribelle Cheney; Simon Aristide
528 pages ISBN: 0345482514 EAN: 9780345482518 Trade Size Add to Wish List
From Brittanyβs fog-shrouded forests to the elegant dark heart of Parisβs royal court, one woman must challenge a countryβs destinyβand her own dangerous fate.
France, 1585. She is the youngest and most powerful of the βSisters of Faire Isle,β 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 warβand 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 βDark Queen,β Catherine de Mediciβa 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 mostβand 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.