The Rose of York: Love & War
Sandra Worth, 2002
Atlasbooks
340 pp.
ISBN-13: 9780975126400
Summary
Adventure, deadly passion and intrigue… History’s most enduring mystery… A love story that may have inspired a beloved fairy tale and Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet…
Known as Shakespeare’s villain, Richard III is also the king who gave mankind “Blind Justice” and the legal concepts that flowered into modern Western democracy. Against the sweep of England’s fifteenth century Wars of the Roses, Love and War, the first book in the "Rose of York" series, recreates Richard’s tumultuous early years and his love affair with Anne Neville, the traitor’s daughter he made his queen. (From the publisher.)
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In a tumultuous era marked by peril and intrigue, reversals of fortune and violent death, the passions of a few rule the destiny of England and change the course of history.
A stirring tale of passion, romance, friendship, honor, betrayal and civil strife, and the winner of a remarkable eight awards, including the 2005 Glyph Award for Best General Fiction, this historically accurate novel tells the true love story of two star-crossed lovers—Richard of Gloucester and Lady Anne Neville—before they become King and Queen of England. Set in Malory's England during the Wars of the Roses, The Rose of York: Love & War is a page turner that thrills as it enlightens. (Also from the publisher.)
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