Book Review: Mercedes Lackey’s The Fire Rose
Tragedy forces Rosalind Hawkins to swap her treasured existence for one of servitude to a railroad baron halfway across the country into a situation fraught with mystery and perversity.
Tragedy forces Rosalind Hawkins to swap her treasured existence for one of servitude to a railroad baron halfway across the country into a situation fraught with mystery and perversity.
A tale where magical realism that moves between real time where lives are buffeted by political conflict, tragedy and loss and another mysterious time where pain is healed, and love is eternal.
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In this dark and atmospheric rendition of the Cinderella fairy tale, an intelligent young Englishwoman is made into a virtual slave by her evil stepmother. Her only hope of rescue comes in the shape of a scarred World War I pilot of noble blood, whose own powers over the elements are about to be needed more than ever.