Rose red cover

Rose red

by Flora Speer

Once upon a time...they lived happily ever after. "I HAVE TWO DAUGHTERS, ONE A FLOWER AS PURE AND WHITE AS THE NEW-FALLEN SNOW AND THE OTHER A ROSE AS RED AND SWEET AS THE FIRES OF PASSION." Bianca and Rosalinda were the only treasures left to their mother after her husband, the Duke of Monteferro, was murdered. Fleeing to a remote villa in the shadows of the Alps of Northern Italy, she raised her daughters in hiding and swore revenge on the enemy who'd brought her low. The years passed until one stormy night a stranger appeared from out of the swirling snow, half-frozen and wild, wrapped only in a bearskin. To gentle Bianca he appeared a gallant suitor, to their mother he was the son of an assassin. But to Rosalinda he was the one man who could light the fires of passion and make them burn as sweet and red as her namesake.

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Chappie’s discussion starters

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  1. Which character stayed with you after you turned the last page, and why?
  2. Was there a moment where you disagreed with a character’s choice? What would you have done?
  3. What theme did this book keep circling back to — and did it earn its ending?
  4. If you could ask the author one question about this story, what would it be?
  5. Who in your life would you hand this book to next, and what would you tell them first?