MERCEDES-LACKEY Digest 119

Topics covered in this issue include:

  1) The Fire Rose????
	by jeanneb-+AT+-primenet.com (Jeanne Burton)

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Date: Sat, 26 Aug 1995 16:33:16 -0700
From: jeanneb-+AT+-primenet.com (Jeanne Burton)
To: mercedes-lackey-+AT+-vanyel.herald.co.uk
Subject: The Fire Rose????
Message-ID: <199508262333.QAA13323-+AT+-mailhost.primenet.com>

Did anyone else read this month's Locus magazine, and notice the full-page
ad for an October Hardcover Mercedes Lackey release entitled "The Fire
Rose"?  I check a variety of sources and I missed this one completely, even
in "Forthcoming Books in Print".  The synopsis that is given in the Locus ad is 

   "Rosalind Hawkins is a medieval scholar from a respectable family whose
father has speculated away the family money and died, leaving her with no
fortune and no future.  Desolate with grief, she goes west to take a job as
a governess to a wealthy man in San Francisco, the center of culture in the
new West.  Perhaps there she will rediscover a reason for living.
    But when she arrives at Jason Cameron's mansion on a hill overlooking
the Pacific, she discovers that there are no children,, not even a wife, in
residence.  The household is very odd indeed and oddest of all is the master
of the house, who is never seen and communicates only through a speaking
tube at night.  But despite her misgivings, Rosalind stays...and is happy.
For her job in the household is to read to him:  Latin, French, Greek,
German - and she feels herself coming alive again.  
   As for Jason Cameron, through his contact with Rosalind, he too is
renewed,  An Adept and Alchemist, Master of the Element of Fire, he had
attempted the old French werewolf transformation - and bungled it.  Stuck in
wolf form, over the centuries he haad slowly been losing his humanity.
Rosallind is bringing it back to him.  But when a rival alchemist offers
Rosallind the chance to restore her family's fortune in exchange for Jason's
secret, who will she side with?  And then the Earthquake strikes....

Sounds like something completely different...any comments??
Apologies if this has been posted/discusssed before I joined the list.
                            Hugs,
                              Jeanne


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