num_pages: 380
description: When beautiful, quick-tempered Lady Rosalind Carbery inherits Thornbury Manor, she's determined to rule it alone and remain a virgin like the great Queen Elizabeth I. She longs for freedom and dreams of writing, like her friend William Shakespeare.But Drake Rothwell has other plans. A dashing privateer who was raised by Rosalind's father, he returns from the high seas to claim Thornbury as his own. Their merry battle takes a turn for the worse when the queen settles their dispute --- by taking the house from both of them. Desperate, Drake and Rosalind join forces to lay double claim to the land by marrying --- in name only. But soon the Rose of Thornbury realizes the one territory she cannot protect from Drake is her heart.
language: English
title: Romance of the Rose
titlecomplete: Romance of the Rose
genres: Historical Romance, Historical, British Literature, Romance
ratings_count: 87
places: England
publisher: Berkley