The Serpent and the Rose: The First Book in the War of the Rose (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780765313287)

The beautiful Averil is heir to the Duchy of Quitaine, in the Kingdom of Lys. She is a powerful mage, trained by the Ladies of the Isle, but when her father calls her home to take up her duties, she must leave that life behind. In her city of Fontevrai, she meets Gereint, raised as a common villager but greatly gifted in magic, a novice of the magical order of the Knights of the Rose.
The Knights and their sister order, the Ladies of the Isle, defend a great secret: the means and location of the Serpent's imprisonment a thousand years ago by the Young God in whose name their order was founded.
Quitaine is under subtle attack by the King of Lys, who has secretly become an adept of the hidden order of the Serpent, and he will let nothing and no one stand in the way of his quest to discover how to free his God. But the Knights of the Rose, and the Ladies of the Isle believe that if the Serpent is freed, the world will be enslaved to chaos: humanity will destroy itself, and all that man has made will be corrupted.
The War of the Rose and Serpent has begun again, after a thousand years.

Author: Kathleen Bryan
ISBN-10: 0765313286
ISBN-13: 9780765313287
Publisher: Tor Books
Language: English
Published: 03/06/2007
Pages: 320
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.40w x 1.00d

Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 01/15/2007 pg. 56
Library Journal 02/15/2007 pg. 116
Entertainment Weekly 03/16/2007 pg. 74
Voice of Youth Advocates 04/01/2007 pg. 62 - Recommended - Hard To Beat
Booklist 03/15/2007 pg. 33
Publishers Weekly 01/08/2007