Raven and the Rose

by Susan Wiggs

Book Overview

One of Napoleon's mercenaries sent to conquer the Hospice of St. Bernards, Daniel Severin falls in love with Lorelei du Clerc, the illegitimate daughter of King Louis XVI, who is cloistered there. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0061040746
• ISBN13: 9780061040740
• Release Date: January 1991
• Publisher: HarperPrism
• Length: 10 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 4.2" x 6.7"

Customer Reviews

Wowie

This book is about a girl who has een raised by saints in the alps. Suddenly, during a amensia causing avalanche, she meets Daniel Severin. Something leads to something (I'm not going to ruin the book for you) and they become lovers. A book with 'she tasted like fresh cherries' as a line it is going to be hot. I winced when I read every love scene, but I didn't get to finish it, I got up to page 230 something. If you love Love and a little history, you'll love this book.

Passion, Murder, History and More

Daniel Severin is a mercenary sent to the Hospice of Saint Bernard in Switzerland to "eliminate" the beheaded King Louis' little-known bastard daughter, Lorelei. Lorelei unknowingly holds the fate of nations in her hands, not to mention Daniel's life when she and the clerics of the hospice rescue him, unconscious and badly wounded, from a deadly avalanche.Daniel finds himself in an unfamiliar helpless state, forced to depend on the very object of his deadly mission to heal his body, and he reluctantly finds his heart and his resolve softening by Lorelei's uncomplicated trust, friendship, and innocent charm.Soon Daniel learns that someone else wants Lorelei dead, and, to his own amazement, he finds himself desperate to protect the one he was sent to kill.The blossoming love between the tortured, jaded mercenary and the sheltered healer is a joy to read, a gentle love story that will touch your heart. This seemingly impossible and improbable love buds and then flourishes to all-consuming passion, but all the while Daniel knows that eventually Lorelei's innocence will be irrevocably shattered when she discovers the secrets he harbors.The Raven and the Rose is one of Ms. Wiggs' best novels. Don't let the reference to Napolean lull you into a sense of "been there, read that." The story is historically fascinating, powerfully yet tenderly romantic, and full of intrigue and mystery that will keep you turning the pages. In the glorious Swiss mountains, The Hospice of Saint Bernard and its inhabitants will intrigue you. Could one of the priests who raised Lorelei from infancy be a murderer? The mystery deepens as circumstances lead the couple to France where they become inexorably interwoven into the politically tumultuous times and their love is challenged by deception and danger.Wonderfully written and more than worth a read!

HISTORY WITH INTRIGUE!!

I consider this one of the best story lines I have read in a long time. There was so much going on in this book I couldn't put it down. With wonderful romance, intrigue and even the history of how they train those heroic dogs. If you are looking for a story that offers something different GET THIS one. I am about to start her "Lily and the Leopard" and am sure I will enjoy it as much as her other books.

A LONG WAY AWAY FROM SLEEP

I buy alot of books and when I bought and read Vows Made In Wine, Circle In Water I knew I found a great writer someone who will keep my attention, so I bought all the books that I could by Susan Wiggs. When I picked this book up in the afternoon I didn't put it down until early the next morning, I spent my whole day and evening right to the wee morning hours reading it, it was great. I was sorry to see it end.

Innocence wins the heart of a good man gone bad

A touching story of an innocent girl who changes the heart of the man sent to kill her. The bastard daughter of the beheaded King Louis must die before she threatens the reign of Bonaparte--but the man sent to kill her finds an innocence that he desperately needs to cleanse his soul from past misdeeds. Has one of the tenderest love scenes I've ever read. Susan Wiggs NEVER disappoints!