Before Romeo and Juliet, there was Montagu and Isobel...A sweeping historical novel set against the backdrop of England's Wars of the Roses that chronicles the real-life love story of Isobel Ingoldesthorpe, a Lancastiran ward of Queen Marguerite, and the Yorkist, John Neville, Lord Montagu, medieval ancestors of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Sir Winston Churchill. During her short time as a ward in Queen Marguerite's Lancastrian court, fifteen-year-old Isobel has had many suitors ask for her hand, but the spirited beauty is blind to all but Yorkist Sir John Neville. It is nothing short of a miracle when the Queen allows Isobel's marriage to the enemy, albeit at a hefty price. All around Isobel and John rages a lawless war. It is only their passion that can see them through the violent madness of Queen Marguerite and the devolution of Isobel's meek uncle into the Butcher of England. For theirs is an everlasting love that fears not the scratch of thorns, from either the Red Rose or the White.

Lady of the Roses: A Novel of the Wars of the Roses

Literature & Fiction

Worth, Sandra

United States

Penguin Publishing Group

In this groundbreaking novel, award-winning author Sandra Worth vibrantly brings to life the people's Queen, "Elizabeth the Good." Seventeen-year-old Elizabeth of York trusts that her beloved father's dying wish has left England in the hands of a just and deserving ruler. But upon the rise of Richard of Gloucester, Elizabeth's family experiences one devastation after another: her late father is exposed as a bigamist, she and her siblings are branded bastards, and her brothers are taken into the new king's custody, then reportedly killed. But one fateful night leads Elizabeth to question her prejudices. Through the eyes of Richard's ailing queen she sees a man worthy of respect and undying adoration. His dedication to his people inspires a forbidden love and ultimately gives her the courage to accept her destiny, marry Henry Tudor, and become Queen. While her soul may secretly belong to another, her heart belongs to England...

The King's Daughter. A Novel of the First Tudor Queen (Rose of York)

From the award-winning author of The King's Daughter comes a story of love and defiance during the War of the Roses. It is 1497. The news of the survival of Richard Plantagenet, Duke of York, has set royal houses ablaze with intrigue and rocked the fledgling Tudor dynasty. With the support of Scotland's King James IV, Richard-known to most of England as Perkin Warbeck-has come to reclaim his rightful crown from Henry Tudor. Stepping finally onto English soil, Lady Catherine Gordon has no doubt that her husband will succeed in his quest. But rather than assuming the throne, Catherine would soon be prisoner of King Henry VII, and her beloved husband would be stamped as an imposter. With Richard facing execution for treason, Catherine, alone in the glittering but deadly Tudor Court, must find the courage to spurn a cruel monarch, shape her own destiny, and win the admiration of a nation.

Pale Rose of England: A Novel of the Tudors

In a tumultuous era marked by peril and intrigue, reversals of fortune and violent deaths, the passions of a few rule the destiny o England and change the course of history. Based on history, this acclaimed trilogy recounts the life of alleged villain Richard III in fifteenth century England. Like Romeo and Juliet, Richard of Gloucester and Lady Anne Neville are bound by love and swept apart by a family feud. When civil war erupts, Anne's father, the Kingmaker, forces her to wed Edward of Lancaster. Edward is slain in battle and the young lovers expect to marry. Instead, they encounter another devastating obstacle that threatens to part them forever. This tale of love and war, tragedy and ultimate triumph is the prize-winning debut that launched Sandra Worth's career. It claims five of the fifteen awards and prizes she has won.

The Rose of York: Love & War

British & Irish

End Table Books

Sandra Worth is the prize-winning, internationally published author of six books chronicling the decline of the Plantagenets and rise of the Tudors. She holds a BA in Political Science and Economics from the University of Toronto.

The Rose of York: Fall from Grace

A story so incredible it can only be true. 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 & 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. With a Foreword by Roxane C. Murph, M.A., Former Chairman, Richard III Society, and author of Richard III: The Making of a Legend

The Rose of York: LOVE & WAR

Literary

Speaking Volumes

Review\n"This admirable historical novel belongs on the shelf of all true Ricardians next to The Daughter of Time." —Historical Novels Review\n"A perfect ten!" —Romance Reviews Today\n"[E]xtraordinary... will breathe glorious life into an era of history that's dark [and] tumultuous." —Heartstrings Reviews\nFall from Grace, the final, award-winning installment in Sandra Worth's critically acclaimed Rose of York series, winners of a remarkable ten awards, including the 2005 GLYPH AWARD for BEST GENERAL FICTION awarded to the first in the series, The Rose of York: Love & War. 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... Did Richard III really murder the princes in the Tower and poison his wife to marry his niece? The dramatic conclusion to the Rose of York series and a prize-winner in its own right, this well documented, historically accurate novel brings King Richard III vividly to life as reluctant king and tragic hero whose legacy, centuries later, flowered into modern Western democracy. Plunging the reader into the swirling currents of Malory's England and the Wars of the Roses for a stirring tale of passion, romance, lust, intrigue, betrayal and murder, The Rose of York: Fall from Grace is a page-turner that enlightens as it entertains. "An admirable work...worthy of attention."—Historical Novels Review "Worth's Richard III is the Richard no reader can ever forget."—Wendy Dunn, author of Dear Heart, How Like You This? and winner of a 2003 Glyph Award. "Worth has done meticulous research, even extending to the phase of the moon on the eve of Bosworth Field, but her narrative is far from dry-as-dust. Though conversations and some incidents must be invented, she makes them seem so real that one agrees this must have been what they said, the way things happened."—Myrna Smith, Fiction Editor, The Ricardian Register, Journal of the U.S. Richard III Society. "Expounding an historical epic of honor and love during the time of the Wars of the Roses, The Rose Of York: Love & War is both dramatic and evocative in its portrayal of struggling souls making the best choices they can in an unjust world. A deftly written, reader engaging, thoroughly entertaining and enthusiastically recommended historical novel which documents its author as a gifted literary talent."—Midwest Book Review

Fall from Grace (The Rose of York)

Genre Fiction

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Walter Books

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