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"Moving, evocative story will touch your heart."
Reviewed by Tammie Ard
Courtesy Old Book Barn Gazette
Posted September 23, 2003

By the age of 22, English beauty Rosamund Bolton has buried three husbands. She's now going to live her life the way she chooses. Refusing the marriage proposal of her arrogant neighbor, Logan Hepburn, she travels to Scotland at the request of Queen Margaret. Soon she meets the Earl of Read more...

"A delightful sixteenth century Scottish romance"
Reviewed by Harriet Klausner
Posted September 24, 2003

In 1511 The Border, widowed three times and only twenty- two, Rosamund Bolton informs her cousin that she is no longer interested in having a husband. She especially wants to avoid a betrothal to anyone selected by someone but herself. Instead she plans to visit her friend Margaret Tudor Read more...

In Rosamund, Bertrice Small introduced a heroine who captured the hearts of readers. Now, the "reigning queen of romance" continues the story of the extraordinary orphaned beauty...

Summary

Rosamund Bolton is determined finally to live her own life. She has claimed her inheritance, rejected her latest suitor—and decided to travel to the court of her dear friend, Queen Margaret of Scotland. It is against this lavish and unpredictable backdrop that she will meet the man who will forever change her destiny. Patrick Leslie, the first earl of Glenkirk, has a tragic past, but he brings to Rosamund a passion that few will ever know. And as war looms once more between England and Scotland, and Henry VIII seeks to himself the most powerful monarch in all of Europe, Patrick and Rosamund will undertake a dangerous mission on behalf of King James IV—one that will test the very limits of their loyalty and the depths of their love...