Review: A Winner
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 04 19, 2014
These are all first class writers. I've included a past review of Anna Markland's Dance of love and will be picking up my copy of the anthology now. Really you can't go wrong with this!THE DANCE OF LOVEBy Anna MarklandThis is a story of love so strong it transcends everything. The hero has horribly disfigured hands making it difficult to hold a sword. He's convinced himself he's unlovable and built walls around his heart.Farah sees through the defences he's put up and as someone with the skills to heal she wants to help him with the pain. It probably doesn't hurt that while his hands may be deformed with rheumatoid arthritis the rest of him very definitely is not.But Farah is bound by her obligation to journey to her brother's castle where as a princess she'll be expected to make a marriage which will cement an alliance or in some way benefit the kingdom. While she longs for the hero to say Stop. Stay here, I love you she doesn't expect it.And Gerwant Isembart, or Izzy, doesn't feel he has anything to offer her, any right to ask her to give up the life of a princess to marry him. Fortunately he's persuaded to go after her and tell her how he feels.He catches up with her as her party is being besieged by bandits (working on behalf of the old queen who wants her dead) and saves her from being thrown off a bridge into the water far below in the nick of time, actually grabbing her hand as she goes over and barely managing to pull her up from certain death.