This romantic fantasy is filled with adventure, change, hope and war. The heroine is Allegro who lives in a country where peace reigns. She has magical talents that are just beginning to develop when she is kidnapped by barbarians, members of a warlike group from another country. They plan to sell her to become a love slave. From a peaceful and beautiful life where all people are valued she finds herself in a brutal one where women have no rights, no education and no life except to serve the men who own them. The romance between Allegro and the man who buys her flutters, grows and flames as the novel proceeds. For her to find happiness the two cultures need to mesh. While romance is not normally a genre I read when it moves into fantasy I often find I like it. I did this one.

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