Problem was, the antagonist meant to misuse her daughter's powers. The last book of the original trilogy, The Silver Rose, had as an antagonist a woman whose daughter had huge magical powers.

I'm now really sorry I didn't read it back then, not because I liked it now, but because I think I might have liked it more back then. Well, 9 years later I remembered the series and decided to go back and read The Huntress.

I think it was a bit on the expensive side when it first came out, and then I moved to England and got a bit distracted. This was in 2006, but when the book came out the next year, I didn't read it. There were some obvious threads left hanging at the end and I was really interested in reading the next book, which was not yet out.

I loved her 16th-century France setting and the mix of history and fantasy, peopled by really interesting, fresh characters. Years ago I really enjoyed Carroll's Faire Isle trilogy.

But Catriona will soon face menacing forces and sinister plots unlike any she has ever encountered.įrom Susan Carroll, the celebrated storyteller of historical fiction, The Huntress is an unforgettable portrait of power and passion-and one woman's courage to risk everything for those she loves. Dispatched from Brittany to London, Catriona O'Hanlon, known as the Huntress, must find this mysterious young girl and shield her from those who will exploit her mystic abilities, which have the potential to change the course of history.Ĭatriona's skill with weaponry is all she has to protect herself and her young charge from spies who snake through the courts of Elizabeth I, the Virgin Queen-including the girl's own father, whose loyalties are stretched to the breaking point. The year is 1585-and prophecy has foretold the coming of a daughter of the Earth whose powers are so extraordinary they could usurp the very rule of the Dark Queen herself, Catherine de Medici. In a time of intrigue and betrayal, the Huntress is on a quest that could jeopardize two empires and two great queens: Catherine de Medici and Elizabeth I.

The huntress a novel