It
is 1192. Celestia Montehue is the odd-eyed misfit in a family
of flame-haired goddesses descended from notorious Queen
Boadicea. While her sisters are tall and beautiful, she,
the eldest, is blond and petite, with one green and one
blue eye. The only thing she has in common with the family
legend is her magical healing ability. Constantly fighting
for her place among her siblings, she refuses to settle
for less than her due. Coming to accept no one will ever
be able to love her for who she is, she vows never to marry.
Nicholas
Le Blanc is a haunted man. Though trained as a knight under
the Baron Peregrine’s name, his childhood in a
monastery has convinced him he is a bastard. Then, on crusade,
his caravan is ambushed; all men are lost and the sacred relic
they carried is stolen. Nicholas is captured and suffers a
year of torture, ultimately escaping
. . . but only after
being forced to kill a woman to win his freedom. Guilt poisons
him as surely as the hidden wounds in his soul.
An arranged marriage
does not bode happiness for the two tortured souls. Nor
does Celestia’s new home, a broken
down keep—haunted by the ghost of Nicholas’ mother,
a suicide—and a stagnant green moat. Then a maid is
murdered and a curse revealed. Worse, Celestia has fallen
in love with her tormented husband. Will they both be doomed?
Or is there healing, indeed, in Love’s Magic?
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“Hall’s
take on medieval life is rich in history and deep in mystery.
The flashbacks of her hero’s imprisonment
are dark but add much to his development, while the heroine
is a gutsy young woman with spunk.”
~ Karen Sweeny-Justice, Romantic Times BOOKreviews
“A very interesting story… entertaining
and the characters were fleshed out wonderfully.”
~ Rista Tompkins, The Romance Readers Connection
“Lovers of classic medieval romances will rejoice over
Traci E. Hall’s newest book, Love’s
Magic.”
~ A Romance Review
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