The Secret Rose

Hers Was The Fabulous Legacy... And The Secret Of The Rose

Aisleen Fitzgerald looked up into the rugged, handsome face above her and trembled with a special knowledge. Born with the mark of the rose and its gift of second sight, she had fled from her troubled past in Ireland to Australia's vast wilds, seeking a new life and vowing never to kneel before any man. But now, as her bonnet tumbled from her brilliant copper hair, the sunlight blazed -- or was it another fire -- from this stranger's deep blue eyes.

He was Thomas Gibson, a work-hardened Irish rancher looking for a bride, a tough frontiersman moved by this petal-soft, "book-learned" woman so different from the rest. In that moment, her fate was sealed. For she was to be joined in a marriage as tempestuous as the untamed outback...and one that would fulfill the passionate promise of the Rose.