few Romance Novels Have Touched Readers As Deeply Or As Lastingly As This Classic By new York Times Bestselling Author Mary Jo Putney. Poignant, Passionate, And Tender, One Perfect Rose Is The Story Of Two Mismatched Lovers Drawn Into A Fragile, Unforgettable Union…

stephen Kenyon, The New Duke Of Ashburton, Has Always Known Exactly What Society Expected Of Him. But A Doctor’s Grim Diagnosis Leaves Him Longing To Experience Life As Never Before. Traveling Incognito, He Becomes Entangled With A Wandering Theater Family And Their Spirited Adopted Daughter, Rosalind Jordan. With No Time To Waste In Courtship, Stephen Convinces Rosalind To Marry Him-an Arrangement That Has Advantages For Both. The Warm Companionship And Profound Passion They Share Is More Than Stephen Expected, And Far More Than His Family And His Own Guarded Nature Ever Allowed. But Each Passing, Perfect Day Together Is A Bittersweet Reminder That Love Is The One Thing He Is Not At Liberty To Offer, And The One Thing She Can Never Admit…

in Her Superb, Inimitable Style, Putney Takes A Pair Of Magnetic, Beautifully Matched Protagonists, Places Them In A Dark, Impossible Situation, And Makes It Work. –library Journal

One Perfect Rose Is Mary Jo Putney In Top Form. –romantic Times

publishers Weekly

hoping To Exploit The Success Of Putney’s Fallen Angels Series, Fawcett Is Launching Its First Rack-size Hardcover Romancesmall Enough To Fit On The Mass Market Shelves At The Local Supermarket But Durable Enough To Cost More. There Were Originally Four Dashing, Complicated Regency Rakes, As Putney Once Called The Heroes Of Her Fallen Angels, But With The Quartet Finished In 1995, She Has Continued To Write Spinoffsriver Of Fire And Now This Novel. Stephen, Fifth Duke Of Ashburton, Seventh Marquess Of Benfield, Etc., Learns That He Has Only A Few More Months To Live. Widowed (the Former Duchess Was A Cold Girl With A Fondness For Needlework) And Childless, Stephen Takes To The Road To Ponder His Fate And Joins A Roving Troupe Of Midlands Actors. In An Uncharacteristic Move For The Dutiful Duke, He Asks One Of The Actresses, Rosalind (the Perfect Rose) To Marry Him And Share His Last Weeks On Earth. Veterans Of Historical Romance Will Twig To Stephen’s Disease Pretty Quickly, But The Hero And Heroine Figure It Out A Few Tedious, Gastric Chapters Later; Meanwhile A Sugarcoated Out-of-body Experience Teaches Him All About Love. Like The Other Couples Who Inhabit This Seriesand For All Their Servants, Swell Clothes And Cavernous Residencesstephen And Rose Are Basically A Nice Middle-class Pair. Spies Or Thieves, Gypsies Or Dukes, Putney’s Lovers Are Fundamentally Alike: Scratch Those Checkered Pasts And You Have The Makings Of A Carpool. (june)

Publish Date : 2010-04-01T00:00:01Z