num_pages: 515
description: From Brittany's fog-shrouded forests to the elegant dark heart of Paris's royal court, one woman must challenge a country's destiny-and her own dangerous fate.France, 1585. She is the youngest and most powerful of the "Sisters of Faire Isle," 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 war-and 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 "Dark Queen," Catherine de Medici-a 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 most-and 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.
language: English
title: The Silver Rose
titlecomplete: The Silver Rose (The Dark Queen Saga, #3)
genres: Paranormal, Historical, France, Fantasy, Witches, Historical Romance, Historical Fantasy, Romance, Historical Fiction, Fiction
ratings_count: 1782
places: France
series: The Dark Queen Saga
awards: awardedAt: 1167638400000
name: All About Romance (AAR) Annual Reader Poll
category: Best Medieval Romance
publisher: Ballantine Books