Rose in the Brier

Sterling Fairchild returned from war wounded and looking for more from life than being the second son of a duke. He finds it in the arms of midwife and aspiring physician Cecilia, the disgrace and outcast of local society.From Publishers Weekly"Time travel and romance converge in this tale of star-crossed love"-Publishers Weekly Review of The Legend of the Bloodstone 2013 ABNA Quarterfinalist manuscript In 2012, a woman cuts her hand and picks up a strange colored stone -Suddenly she is staring into the eyes of an angry Powhatan warrior.And the only town nearby is Jamestown, circa 1622.Maggie McMillan wakes up one day as a college student, yet ends the day in 1622. Captured by Winn, a warrior who is torn between his duty to kill her and his desire to keep her, she is thrust into a life she had only read about in history books.Hunted and feared by both the Powhatan and the English, she struggles to find a way home while Winn plots to keep her there. Maggie fights to survive as she finds herself entangled in the Indian Massacre of 1622, and Winn sees everything he ever believed in shattered by the knowledge she holds.As they battle against each other and the message she brings from the future, she must decide whether to return to her own time, or to make a life in the past with the man who holds her heart captive.