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The Rose and the Dragon
TCM Reviews, October 2006 by Eugen M. Bacon
As far as romance goes, The Rose and the Dragon is fresh as baby’s breath, wide as an exotic oak. Matter of fact, it perfectly fits a Mills & Boon identikit and tosses in a few astonishments of its own.
As in what must be its sequel, Dragon in Chains, no real dragons bellow, no red flames leap to scorch true love. But there is a House of Andrus, and two Apollos who are not Greek but Gataen, males who bear the names of Dominic and Kit. And though Miranda is only human, not Terran or Hahn, and does not foresee how deeply her life is about to change, she picks the gauntlet when she answers an ad to nanny little savages that are not so little. She is tossed in a foreign land with such beauty conceivably best limited to optical illusions, and finds herself increasingly drawn to the fine-looking brothers with jungle-green eyes, and their ritualistic, embattled world.
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