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Winter Rose

ISBN: 0441003346

Title: Winter Rose

Author: Patricia A. McKillip

KDL Description:

Two sisters, one delicate and sensible, one rough-hewn and sensual, fall in love with an aristocrat who returns to claim his family’s abandoned estate, only to fall victim to the curse of his legendary grandfather.

Amazon Description:

Winter Rose begins as the seemingly simple story of Rois and Laurel Melior and their understandable fascination with young Corbet Lynn, returned to rebuild his abandoned ancestral home, Lynn Hall. Laurel is drawn to Corbet’s beauty, Rois to the mystery of his past. But the past holds more than one mystery, and as Rois fights her way into the wood around Lynn Hall, seeking answers for herself, Laurel, and Corbet, she risks losing everything, for all of them, forever.

Traces of Christina Rossetti’s Goblin Market, of Tam Lin, and of a dozen other legends and tales color Rois’s story. Patricia McKillip’s consummate mastery of language means that every word counts in a complex, sweetly painful story of human love and timeless, indifferent power.