Search - Merely Magic (Magic, Bk 1)

Good read, though not as good as some of her other books. I thought that the characters were just a tad boring.

Magic rules over the hearts of lovers and friends once again, as romance author Patricia Rice presents her fans with another charming fairy tale of love and passion. Ninian Malcom Siddons has always known she was a witch. After all, she is a Malcom woman and all Malcom women are witches. But Ninian uses her "gifts" as a healer to help the village where she grew up. But her life was solitary and lonely, that is until Lord Ives appears on the scene determined to turn her life upside-down.

In a lovely cottage there lives a beautiful woman called Ninian who yearns for a family of her own - but whose magical gifts make her too "strange" to be loved by any local lad.

In a castle tower there lives a dark aristocrat called Drogo who studies the stars, seeking rational explanations for perplexing mystereis - unaware that his life is about to turned upside down by a bewitching enchantress.