The Winter RoseThe Winter Rose
India is not good for business and at first, Malone wants her out. But against all odds, India and Sid fall in love. Different in nearly every way, they share one thing in common--they're both wounded souls. Their love is impossible and they know it, yet they cling to it desperately. Lytton, India's fiance, will stop at nothing to marry India and gain her family's fortune.
Fractious criminal underlings and rivals conspire against Sid. When Sid is finally betrayed by one of his own, he must flee London to save his life. Mistakenly thinking him dead, India, pregnant and desperate, marries Freddie to provide a father for hers and Sid's child. India and Sid must each make a terrible sacrifice--a sacrifice that will change them both forever. One that will lead them to other lives, and other places...and perhaps--one distant, bittersweet day--back to each other.
When India Selwyn Jones, a young woman from a noble family, graduates from the London School of Medicine for Women in 1900, her professors advise her to set up her practice in London's esteemed Harley Street. Driven and idealistic, India chooses to work in the city's East End instead, serving the desperately poor. In these grim streets, India meets--and saves the life of--London's most notorious gangster, Sid Malone. A hard, wounded man, Malone is the opposite of India's aristocratic fiancâe, Freddie Lytton, a rising star in the House of Commons. Though Malone represents all she despises, India finds herself unwillingly drawn ever closer to him, intrigued by his hidden, mysterious past.--From publisher's description.
Graduating from the London School of Medicine for Women in 1900, aristocratic and idealistic India Selwyn-Jones attempts to establish herself in the East End by providing services to disadvantaged patients, a practice that is challenged by a notorious gangster, until she saves his life and falls in love with him. 75,000 first printing.
Graduating from the London School of Medicine for Women in 1900, India Selwyn Jones attempts to establish herself in the East End by providing services to disadvantaged patients, a practice that is challenged by a notorious gangster until she saves his life.
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- New York, N.Y. : Hyperion, 2007.
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