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Synopsis
From Brittany’s fog-shrouded forests to the elegant dark heart of Paris’s royal court, one woman must challenge a country’s destiny–and her own dangerous fate. France, 1585. She is the youngest and most powerful of the “Sisters of Faire Isle,” women known far and wide for their extraordinary mystical abilities. Skilled in healing and able to forecast the future of those around her, Miri Cheney has returned to her ancestral home to take refuge from a land devastated by civil war–and to grieve for her family, driven to exile. But she cannot hide from the formidable new power threatening to seize control of France from the dread “Dark Queen,” Catherine de Medici–a diabolical woman known only as the Silver Rose. Miri has no choice but to turn to the one man she distrusts as much as she desires: Simon Aristide, the charismatic witch-finder who is now himself the hunted, and who has reluctantly made an unholy pact with Catherine. Miri must defy throne and family to save all that she loves most–and command a future greater than she could ever imagine.
Is The Silver Rose appropriate for my child?
Suitable for most readers 16 and up.
Parents should know this historical fantasy contains moderate violence related to civil war and witch-hunting, along with romantic tension and desire between the leads. The historical setting includes dark political intrigue and perilous situations.
What to know going in
This book has moderate violence, moderate sexual content, and mild language. Content notes include death, grief, and war (see the full list above).
Who'll love this
Teens will be drawn to the powerful heroine with mystical abilities, the tense enemies-to-lovers romance with a conflicted witch-finder, and the high-stakes political intrigue in Renaissance France.