Beyond the Rose

Mystery, old family secrets, misaligned love, and loss collide with inevitability in this sequel to Sharon Allen Gilder’s novel, The Rose Beyond. Vivid characters with ties to England and Wales abound in Beyond the Rose, a romantic historical novel set in 1898 in Washington, D.C. Beyond the Rose blooms with the perils of unrequited love while a labyrinth of lies and secrets threaten to destroy the household of forbidding patriarch Sir Ian Hargrove, his wife Elsbeth, and their daughter Arielle. Immerse yourself in the Hargrove’s ongoing saga where the bonds of love and family, entwined in deceit, betrayal, and mistrust are challenged by vestiges of the past. A diary entry sets in motion a quest to unravel a tapestry of clues. A stunning truth is discovered and a time of reckoning spreads like a menacing shadow over the Hargrove’s threshold. Beyond the Rose tests the strength of family and relationships and reminds us that secrets, unless taken to the grave, always return home.