The Knight And The Rose

Cover Type: Softcover
Book Condition: Very Good
Jacket Condition: None Issued
Publisher: Bantam Books
Publisher Place: Australia
Publisher Year: 2000
Edition: Reprint

Description: 538 pages. Book is in Very good condition throughout.

Publishers Description: From the award-winning author of the 1999 ROMANCE NOVEL OF THE YEAR comes another page-turning medieval tale of power and passion.In the tradition of master storytellers Barbara Erskine, Sara Donati and Diana Gabaldon, Isolde Martyn interweaves historical fact and fiction into a rich and vibrant tapesty of love, betrayal and political intrigue.Inspired by an actual court case, THE KNIGHT AND THE ROSE is a medieval Green Card*, a tale of two mismatched strangers forced to masquerade as a happily betrothed couple-in this case to avoid certain death. Set in medieval Yorkshire soon after the events portrayed in Braveheart, the beautiful and spirited Lady Joanna Fitzhenry is trapped in a violent marriage to the savage Sir Fulk de Enderfield, a veteran of the wars against Robert the Bruce. But she has one last chance at freedom. If a stranger can be found who is willing to swear to a court that he was betrothed to Johanna before her match to Fulk, Johanna will be set free. Gervase de Laval, a knight fleeing bounty hunters after the Battle of Boroughbridge, where the rebels were defeated by Edward IIs army, is discovered on Fitzhenry land and made an offer he cannot refuse. Pose as Johannas long-lost love or he and his badly wounded companion will be handed over to the king and hanged as traitors. Unaware of the true nature of the bargain he strikes, Johann views him as nothing more than a cold-blooded mercenary. Gervase has no choice but to play the part. He has his own dark secret to protect: his real identity and his true allegiance in the battle for the English Crown. (*Green Card, starring Gerard Depardieu and Andie McDowell, was an international box office hit for director Peter Weir-a funny, sexy and romantic love story about two people pretending to be married so they can get what they want but end up falling in love. In his case its a Green Card to work in the US and in hers an apartment)

ISBN: 9780733802003