Romance of the Rose Author:Julie Beard When beautiful, quick-tempered Lady Rosalind Carbery inherits Thornbury Manor, she's determined to rule it alone and remain a virgin like the great Queen Elizabeth I. She longs for freedom and dreams of writing, like her friend William Shakespeare. — But Drake Rothwell has other plans. A dashing privateer who was raised by Roaslind's fath... more »er, he returns for the high seas to claim Thornbury as his own. Their merry battle takes a turn for the worse when the queen settles their dispute-by take the house from both of them. Desperate, Drake and Rosalind join forces to lay double claim to the land by marrying-in name only. But soon the Rose of Thornbury realized the one territory she cannot protect from Drake is her heart!« less