A Rose in Winter

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Excellent story and strong characters. Loved reading it.....

Superb story!!! Remains in my heart forever. My most favourite book. Read it over and over again.. Fell in love with Christopher Seton.

I am a fan of KW's work, but this offering fell a little short for me. Erienne Flemming the heroine is a feisty strong willed girl. Her Father Avery is the Mayor of the northern town they live in, he is nothing but a drunken wastrel. Her brother Farrell is little better, having been badly injured in a duel protecting their Father's honour. Avery looking for easy money has tried repeatedly to marry Erienne off, but none of the suitors have met with her approval.The Flemings appear to lay the blame for their misfortunes at the feet of Christopher Seton, an American ship owner, he caught Avery cheating at cards, and subsequently was challenged to a duel by the foolish Farrell. With their financial situation becoming worse Avery resorts to auctioning off Erienne to the highest bidder. The winner of this public auction, is the crippled and disfigured Lord Saxon, Erienne is forced to marry him. Although she cannot help being very attracted to her family's enemy the handsome and dashing Christopher Seton. But the scarred and masked Lord Saxon shows Erienne nothing but kindness. Which leaves Erienne between a rock and a hard place.This story was okay, but it was just too long and drawn out, the plot was a clever idea. Or at least it would have been if it was not so easy for the reader to easily guess what was happening. the characters were very one dimentional in particular the baddies who were almost pantomimeish. I would have enjoyed this better, if it had been a whole lot shorter, and the plot had been better thought out. This was no where near as good as  Wolf and the DoveWolf and the Dove

I first read this book in paperback over 20 years ago, and despite its age it's still a great read. Although it is billed as a romance it is actually more than that, with a good fast paced story arc and lot's of surprises. Well worth a read and I'm so pleased to see it on kindle.

Kathleen E Woodiwiss books are always full of passion for love and life and adventure. My favourite author since my teens. I am now a pensioner and still cant get enough of her books. On the kindle can even read in the dark. Thank you Amazon!

I first read this book many many years ago and have just replaced my very scraggy copy with an kindle addition and now it will never run out. Romance with lots of action and twists and turns. Typical stubborn heroine and hunky hero. This is one of my three fav by this author, the others being The flame and the Flower and the wolf and the Dove. would def recommend

A complicated retelling of a classic story that I always liKed. The characters are very well put together, as is the plot, with poetically set scenes. I've re read this book several times since my youth, and always regarded Kathleen Woodwiss as the bodice ripping successor to Georgette Heyer as far as romance novels go.