The Rose Series Part One: White As Snow
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A mysterious darkness is emerging, raging and threatening to encompass all. Growing in the Far East, the other kingdoms struggle to unite and keep their people safe. But all seems hopeless, powerless to such opposition. Yet their are rumors...whispers of a power, a light, that can drive the darkness at bay, and cleanse the land of its grasps. Shrouded in myth and lore, those that believe call it the Rose.
This is part one of The Rose Series:
The war has taken those Alaine holds most dear, her mother and father. Now, it has come to take her brother, James, as a soldier in the Royal Army. Alaine is thrown into the midst of the war when she receives a mysterious invitation from the Alalorian Court. Heeding the call, she finds herself at the Capital in the Queen's castle, in the midst of ongoing negotiations between neighboring countries. The Queen has requested her presence there, but her motives are unknown. There, Alaine meets the famed Auro Vitale from one of the neighboring kingdoms. But he has a secret, a terrible dark secret that may set her on a path she can never return from. One where everything she holds dear may be ripped from her grasps.
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