The Thornless Rose, Morgan ONeill
The Thornless Rose, Morgan ONeill
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The Thornless Rose

Author: Morgan O'Neill

Narrator: Elizabeth Brook

Unabridged: 14 hr 38 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 08/28/2018

Synopsis

What happened to Dr. Jonathan Brandon, a dashing RAF flight surgeon, who disappeared from London in 1945? Kidnapping? Murder? Or did Brandon merely vanish of his own free will, seeking another life? American teacher Anne Howard is stunned by a different explanation—that her British grandmother's long-lost fiancé was unwillingly wrenched back through time, to Elizabethan England. Anne knows time travel is nonsense—until she is handed a fresh-cut thornless rose, a bloom extinct for over four hundred years! And then, when the impossible happens and Anne journeys back to 1560 London, she must somehow survive encounters with royal enemies, accusations of witchcraft and the possibility of never returning home. In the midst of the chaos, she meets Brandon. Drawn into the perilous web of Elizabethan court life, they must confront their growing feelings for each other, complicated by poignant familial ties, while struggling with the shared danger of knowing what the future holds.

About Morgan O'Neill

Morgan O'Neill is the joint pen name of Cary Morgan and Deborah O'Neill Cordes, two award-winning authors who connected because of a mutual love of time travel fiction.

Cary and Deborah's backgrounds are uniquely suited to writing stories steeped in atmosphere and history: Deborah has a master's degree in history and is a dedicated genealogist; Cary is a talented linguist in French and is currently a student of Latin. They've traveled to Europe's ancient and medieval sites many times, with Cary living on the Continent for five years.

The Morgan O'Neill time travel novels have received a number of literary awards, including two finalist wins in the Booksellers' Best Awards, two semifinalist wins in the William Faulkner-William Wisdom Creative Writing Competition, first, second, and third place wins for the Mainstream Novel with Strong Romantic Elements category of the Golden Rose Contest, a top ten finalist award in the Pacific Northwest Writers' Conference Zola Awards Literary Contest, and a top ten finalist win in the Orange Rose Contest.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Mei on October 20, 2017

Here we discover what happened to poor Jonnie from the previous book and here the time-travel is a strong point! Jonnie ended in Elizabeth I time, where, with help of an ex Bishop he works as a doctor. He's still deeply in love with Catherine, even if he knows that he will never be able to return to......more

Goodreads review by Kiltsandswords on January 04, 2015

This was an enchanting story. I have been reading a lot of the time travel genre this year (or this past year) and this book was a unique and fascinating glimpse into the history of one of England’s most amazing time periods. From the end of World War II to modern day to Elizabethan England, this st......more

Goodreads review by Joanna on December 15, 2014

I was breathless as I finished the last page of this novel. The pace does not ease from beginning to end and the superb characters have been snatched straight from the pages of history. Dr. Jonathan Brandon vanishes from a London pub in 1945, days before his wedding to Catherine Howard, and is never......more

Goodreads review by Lindsey on December 30, 2014

I've always fancied the theory that time is like a ball of string. It can be all tangled up at times and different time periods are separated by only a thin veil. The Thornless Rose explores that theory as two people from two different time periods travel back to Tudor era England during the reign o......more

Goodreads review by Brenna on December 20, 2014

I’ve always enjoyed a good time travel romance, so I couldn’t pass up the chance to read this one. And I wasn’t disappointed. It begins with a mystery: what happened to Major Jonathan Brandon, who disappeared from a London pub in 1945. Fast forward to modern day London, where the granddaughter of th......more

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