"Moving, evocative story will touch your heart."

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 Glenkirk, Patrick Leslie. They fall deeply in love and begin a passionate affair, knowing they cannot marry, but cherishing their time together.

Before Patrick and Rosamund leave on a diplomatic mission for King James, Logan arrives at court. Seeing the passion and love Patrick and Rosamund share, Logan agrees to marry another. Though he'll never love his new bride, he will respect her.

When Patrick is lost to Rosamund, she's devastated. She then learns that Logan has lost his wife and second child. She also sees him with clearer eyes; that although he always seemed arrogant and assuming, he did truly love her. Logan is sure Rosamund will never love him like she did Patrick, but he learns otherwise.

This story never went in the direction I thought it would. I needed a box of tissue on several occasions. And the ending was a complete surprise. Great story!

Reviewed by Tammie Ard
Courtesy Old Book Barn Gazette
Posted September 23, 2003

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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...