Description This absorbing and mysterious novel opens in the remote regions of the Himalayas, where the strange and lovely heroine, Jani, has been brought up by a runaway English soldier on the borders of Tibet, and moves on to encompass the rich and ancient mythology of bygone Britain.
The nine Madeleine Brent romances include "Tregaron s Daughter," "Moonraker s Bride," "Kirkby s Changeling," "Merlin s Keep," "The Capricorn Stone," "The Long Masquerade," "A Heritage of Shadows," "Stormswift," and "Golden Urchin."".
Madeleine Brent s real identity was one of publishing s best kept secrets.
About the Author Madeleine Brent was the pseudonym used by Peter O Donnell, who also created the legendary thriller heroine Modesty Blaise.
One of her most enthralling novels, it reveals all her talents for combining excitement with the unravelling of a secret, amid the drama of an exotic setting.
Madeleine Brent\'s story of love and loyalty, of mystery and danger, moves on to a startling climax back amid the mountains on the roof of the world, where it all began.
And it is here that her past is gradually uncovered, and she becomes locked in a macabre struggle, long prophesied by the High Lama of her Tibetan days, against the strange and terrifying powers of the Silver Man.
Later, when she moves on and finds the Woman in Red, Jani becomes one of the family in a Hampshire household.
Both Jani\'s past and that of her soldier protector are shrouded in a mystery that grows ever deeper for Jani when the foreign demon on a black horse comes from the south to take her away to a new and frightening world - a London orphanage.
Description This absorbing and mysterious novel opens in the remote regions of the Himalayas, where the strange and lovely heroine, Jani, has been brought up by a runaway English soldier on the borders of Tibet, and moves on to encompass the rich and ancient mythology of bygone Britain
