The Knight and the Rose

A long-suffering lady must put her faith in a mysterious fugitive…

England, 1322

Lady Johanna FitzHenry longs to escape her brute of a husband, Sir Fulk de Enderby. With her father on his deathbed, she travels to her family home to beg them to help her find a way out.

Having been fighting for Sir Roger Mortimer’s rebels against King Edward, Geraint is on the run from the king’s bounty hunters. He carries with him the unconscious body of Mortimer’s son, Edmund, whom he has sworn to protect.

When Geraint is injured in the woods on the FitzHenrys’ estate, he attracts the attention of Johanna’s mother, Lady Constance. Realising that he is a fugitive, she strikes a bargain: in return for her silence, Geraint must swear to the courts that he married Johanna in secret before she met Sir Fulk, thus rendering her current marriage invalid.

But it does not prove easy for Johanna and Geraint to behave as man and wife. Both wilful and passionate, they soon find themselves arguing whenever they meet. And as the court hearing draws closer, both begin to wonder whether they can ever convince the world that they are in love…

Will Johanna be freed from her cruel husband? Can Geraint escape the hangman’s noose?

Or are they both destined for further suffering?

THE KNIGHT AND THE ROSE is a compelling and romantic historical novel set in late Medieval England. A previous edition won the Romance Writers of Australia ‘Romance Novel of the Year’ Award.

‘A lovely medieval, rich as a stained-glass window’ – Jo Beverley, author of the ‘Company of Rogues’ series

‘They don’t get any better than this. This is a book that truly deserves the five-heart designation “keeper”.’ Lesley Dunlap, The