She Met Him Where the Reeds Bend... He was the most beautiful man Meghan had ever seen... and she watched him, young, naked, and magnificent, bathing in the still waters of a crystal pool and the gold and green light of a summer afternoon in the Irish wilds. She loved him from that moment on and for all eternity, even though love was forbidden to her. For Meghan was considered a changeling, a witch, marked as she was with the rose-colored spot on her cheek. And little could she dream that what once cursed her would bring her a glorious destiny—and the passion of the stranger she so wantonly desired...

Only Once in Many Generations Does a Woman of the Fitzgerald Clan Bear the Mark—and the Gift—of the Rose... She had seen him before in her dreams. But the handsome soldier hiding in the deep purple shadows of her father's stables was now terribly real. Deirdre was only a child, but felt she must help him escape the English troops - for she knew this wild Irish rebel with hair as dark as a raven's wing and eyes as blue as the summer sky was destined to be her one true love. Someday she would meet this fierce, magnificent stranger again...and he would remember the mark of the rose on her creamy white skin. Then he would know she was no longer an innocent girl, but a full-grown passionate woman, one ripe for the ecstasy of desire...and ready for an eternity of love.

Hers Was The Fabulous Legacy And The Secret Of The Rose Aisleen Fitzgerald looked up into the rugged, handsome face above her and trembled with a special knowledge. Born with the mark of the rose and its gift of second sight, she had fled from her troubled past in Ireland to Australia's vast wilds, seeking a new life and vowing never to kneel before any man. But now, as her bonnet tumbled from her brilliant copper hair, the sunlight blazed—or was it another fire—from this stranger's deep blue eyes. He was Thomas Gibson, a work-hardened Irish rancher looking for a bride, a tough frontiersman moved by this petal-soft, "book-learned" woman so different from the rest. In that moment, her fate was sealed. For she was to be joined in a marriage as tempestuous as the untamed outback...and one that would fulfill the passionate promise of the Rose.