ROSE
Lauren Royal
Author’s Cut Edition
11th Edition, January 2018
Novelty Books
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Title Page
Book Description
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A Message from Lauren...
Chase Family Tree
Cover Image
Dedication
1: Standing in her family's...
2: "If I may speak with...
3: "You look melancholy...
4: "What a day."
5: Kit stood in a corner...
6: "Hurry," Rose said.
7: Kit walked briskly...
8: As the evening wore on...
9: Kit had six men...
10: As Rose and Gabriel...
11: "I'm pleased."
12: Kit led them on the...
13: Before Rose could...
14: Kit sketched while...
15: As Rose watched Kit...
16: "Home" right now...
17: Rose closed the lodging's...
18: Kit looked down the hill...
19: Rose had kissed three...
20: "Burning the midnight...
21: Even the king had tried...
22: Ellen led Rose down...
23: "Kit," his sister said...
24: Rose had nearly steeled...
25: "She's distressed...
26: Rose knew she shouldn't...
27: "Lady Trentingham?"
28: The attiring room was...
29: It was a good ten...
30: "Didn't you sleep well...
31: Three days later, Ellen...
32: Built just a few years...
33: Outside, torches burned...
34: Rose and Kit returned...
35: "Good morning, Ellen."
36: "Good afternoon, Mr....
37: The next day, Rose...
38: Kit's sister looked pale...
39: Following a bit of...
40: Rose watched brother...
41: Rose's family was...
42: Not too much later...
43: The men had adjourned...
44: Chrystabel stretched...
45: As Kit and Rose...
46: Rose spent a restless...
47: The sun was setting...
48: "Rosslyn."
49: As the evening wore on...
50: Notebook, ruler, and...
51: By the time Kit made...
52: Later that day, Kit...
53: Everything looked so...
54: Rose shrieked, and...
55: Hampton Court was...
56: "Oh, Judith," Lily breathed...
57: "Based on the upper...
58: Standing in the old village...
59: Many hours later, Chrystabel...
60: Judith's wedding celebration...
61: They stumbled together...
62: "Six months," Chrystabel...
63: One evening a week later...
64: The book fell from Kit's...
65: The next morning, after...
66: "Rowan, wake up!"
67: In Madame Beaumont's...
68: With all the excitement...
69: He was a coward.
70: No note had come from Kit.
71: Standing at the front of...
72: Rose couldn't remember...
73: "Look at all the people...
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BONUS MATERIAL
Author's Note
Explore the Chase Family World
Excerpt from A SECRET CHRISTMAS
Books by Lauren Royal
A Dozen Free Books
Contest
About the Author
Acknowledgments
Jewels of Historical Romance
Contact Information
Copyright Page
BOOK DESCRIPTION
England, 1677
The last of three sisters to marry, Lady Rose Ashcroft is determined to land a wealthy, titled husband—a marquess perhaps, or even a duke. Having had her heart broken in the past, she’s decided the key to enticing a man lies in hiding her intelligence and academic interests while flaunting her more feminine qualities. Matchmaking mother in tow and strategy firmly in place, Rose heads off to Charles II’s court to find love…
And runs smack dab into Christopher “Kit” Martyn, the one man who could ruin all her plans. Kit is a dashing, successful commoner with his sights set on landing the post of official Royal Architect—and he’s the only man Rose feels she can honestly talk to about anything. Kit knows the true Rose, and he wants her, but she thinks of him as a family friend. Can he convince her that a title is unimportant compared to the passion he knows they’re destined to share?
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A MESSAGE FROM LAUREN…
It’s unusual for an author to center all her novels around a single family, and it wasn’t something I planned to do when I started writing.
The Chase family came to me all at once. I knew I wanted to set my first books in the late 17th century, and I wanted to write about people affected by their times. An English family with Royalist sympathies would have lived through a lot in those years—the English Civil War, the Protectorate, exile on the Continent, the Restoration—and those experiences would have forever shaped their personalities. So the Chases came to me: Jason, the oldest, who had responsibility thrust on him too soon by the untimely deaths of their parents; Colin, a middle child filled with resentment for his parents’ choices and what those had ultimately cost him and his siblings; Kendra, the only girl, raised by imperfect but well-meaning older brothers; and her twin Ford, the baby of the family, the happy-go-lucky one who was too young to feel the burden of their circumstances. Ford later marries Violet Ashcroft, bringing her eccentric relations into the Chase family circle.
After two series, I decided to write books set in the Regency period. By then the Chases felt as real to me as my own family, so it was natural to write about their descendants. Though over a hundred years have passed, evidence of the original Chases still remains, hidden in old portraits, hereditary traits, and family legend (the truth of which astute readers will know better than the Regency Chases do!). I had a lot of fun tying these characters together across the centuries.
My daughter and I are now writing Chase books set in the Renaissance era, so the tradition continues. Will I ever write about a different family? I can’t say for sure, but I’m not ready to walk away from the Chases yet!
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There are so many great romance novels out there—thank you for choosing mine. I so hope you’ll enjoy Kit and Rose’s story.
Happy reading!
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