WIZARD'S DAUGHTER
When Ryder Sherbrooke finds a child nearly beaten to death in an alley
in Eastbourne, he takes her home to Brandon House. She doesn't speak for
six months. Her first words, oddly enough, are a haunting song:
I dream of beauty and sightless night
I dream of strength and fevered might
I dream I'm not alone again
But I know of his death and her grievous sin.
Ah, and just what does this strange song mean that was seemingly
imprinted on the child's brain? She names herself Rosalind de la
Fontaine since she cannot remember who she is. In her first season in
London in 1835, under the aegis of the Sherbrookes, she meets Nicholas
Vail, the 7th Earl of Mountjoy, newly arrived from Macau. It is instant
fascination on both their parts, but for different reasons. With Grayson
Sherbrooke, they are led to an ancient copy of a mysterious book written
by a sixteenth-century wizard. The book is written in a baffling code
that neither Grayson nor Nicholas can read. But Rosalind can, easily.
Strange things start happening. Both Nicholas and Rosalind know it has
to do with the old book and, perhaps, even her past, particularly the
song she first sang as a child. The urgency builds as they realize
Rosalind is the key to a centuries-old mystery.
PRINCE OF RAVENSCAR
In April 1831, her grace Corinne Monroe wants her widowed son, Lord
Julian, to marry her best friend's daughter, Miss Sophie Wilkie. Julian
last saw Sophie when she was twelve years old, silent, skinny, and
always staring at him. However, his mother is nothing if not persuasive,
and Julian reluctantly accompanies her to London to meet the young lady.
And he knows that whatever happens isn't going to be good. Lord Devlin
Monroe, Julian's nephew, is very fond of his intriguing reputation in
society: he delights, he frightens, he brings on delicious shudders.
He's enjoying an extraordinarily pleasant bachelor life until Miss
Roxanne Radcliffe and her niece, Miss Sophie Wilkie, appear in London
society, and he suddenly finds himself wondering how he could have
enjoyed midnight alone. Julian and Devlin must discover what really
happened three years earlier when Julian's first wife, Lily, was found
dead. If they don't find out the truth, their lives could be ruined. And
there is another, even more perfidious, danger that lurks in the
shadows, waiting.
