White Rose of Night

By Mel Keegan
Published by DreamCraft
$10.99 Rating: Not yet rated.
Published: Aug. 26, 2011
Words: 141,058 (approximate)
Language: English
ISBN: 9780975088487


Short description

To further the House of Aethelstan, Edward rides to the Crusade. For love of the young Saxon knight, Paul squires him – and before he returns he will be a man grown, with a tale of sorcery, sublime sensuality, and timeless love. Dust-veiled battlefields, and the bedchambers of Saracen captains are his memories: silk and steel, delight, despair, and the magic of a half-forgotten age.

Extended description

Desert storm, ‘djinn’ and the riders from Hell ... Saracen, Templar and dark sorcerer ... unholy adventure in an age of holy war!

It is a time of conquest in which the Saxon is almost a slave in his own country, and the Holy Land is sundered by unholy war out of which there can be no winners, no real victors. And for young men like Paul Delgado and Edward of Aethelstan, no place is safe. Their own home is as filled with danger as the battlefields of Palestine, for they are men who love men, in an age when such love is forbidden.

On the very threshold of manhood, Paul is a landless, penniless orphan with no future — unless it is to follow the young Earl of Aethelstan to war. But Edward has no desire to sell his sword and his soul to a blood- soaked Crusade where mercy is rare, cruelty is commonplace, and the dark sorcery of an unknown land might easily swallow a man whole.

To repair the patchwork fortunes of the House of Aethelstan, Edward commits himself to the Crusade .... (Read more)


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romance, adventure, gay, historical, glbt, crusades

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