title: The Thorn in the Rose
author: Barrett, Maye
description: She was a glittering court beauty...and he an American adventurer who saved her life and stole her kisses. But her loyalty belonged to Queen Mary and King James, and lady-in-waiting Constance Rawlings obeyed her monarchs' bidding and married the dashing Earl of Malvin, the man she thought she loved.  --  All too soon, she found in marriage a bed...  more » of lies and treachery. It was in the forbidden arms of Eugene Sorel, frontiersman, that she tasted a passion she had never known before and learned a wildness that drove her to fight for the freedom her husband denied, for the Queen he betrayed -- and for the one true love her heart could not deny.