Overview
New from Jamie Carie, today’s most awarded new Christian romance writer.
Christophé, the Count of St. Laurent, has lost his entire family to the blood-soaked French Revolution and must flee to an ancient castle along the southern border of France to survive. But the medieval city of Carcassonne proves more than a hiding place. Here Christophé meets the beautiful widow Scarlett, a complex and lionhearted woman suddenly taken by the undercover aristocrat’s passion for astronomy and its influence upon his faith. Although their acquaintance begins brightly enough, when the Count learns that Scarlett is related to the man who murdered his family, he turns from love and chooses revenge. Heaven only knows what it might take for Christophé to love again, to love his enemy, and to love unconditionally.
Jamie Carie is the author of Snow Angel, a ForeWord magazine Romance Book of the Year nominee, National "Best Books 2007” Awards winner, and 2008 RITA Awards® Best First Book finalist. She lives with her husband and three children in Indianapolis.
Synopsis
An aristocrat goes undercover to survive the French Revolution, but his heart cannot be contained upon meeting a beautiful widow with whom he shares a tragic connection.
Tamara Butler - Library Journal
Having lost his entire family to the French Revolution, Christophe, the count of St. Laurent, escapes death by fleeing to the medieval city of Carcassone in southern France. There he meets Scarlett, a widow who helps him begin to heal until he discovers her relationship to his family's killer. Still reeling from the pain of war, Christophe cannot accept Scarlett. Will he be consumed by his need to seek vengeance, or will he learn to forgive the past and love again? VERDICT The award-winning Carie is a skilled author (Snow Angel) whose talent for rich historical detail and compelling plots make her latest inspirational romance worthwhile. For romance and historical fiction fans.
Editorials
Library Journal
Having lost his entire family to the French Revolution, Christophe, the count of St. Laurent, escapes death by fleeing to the medieval city of Carcassone in southern France. There he meets Scarlett, a widow who helps him begin to heal until he discovers her relationship to his family's killer. Still reeling from the pain of war, Christophe cannot accept Scarlett. Will he be consumed by his need to seek vengeance, or will he learn to forgive the past and love again? VERDICT The award-winning Carie is a skilled author (Snow Angel) whose talent for rich historical detail and compelling plots make her latest inspirational romance worthwhile. For romance and historical fiction fans.
—Tamara Butler