Emerald Silk, Five Star Publishing/Cengage
Colorado Author Janet Lane
Rocky Mountain News
Book Review
Grade: A
"This fast-moving, smoothly constructed historical novel quickly pulls readers into 15th-century ngland and its growing discrimination against Gypsies.
Central to the plot is Kadriya, a beautiful half-Sypgy raised by an English noble family. When she agrees to marry Teraf, a Gypsy tribal king, she doesn't realize that he has stolen a valuable emerald-encrusted chalice from a nearby abbey. With both the abbey and Teraf's friends trying to recapture the chalice, their quest puts Kadriya in danger, testing her courage and loyalty. It also lands her squarely in the middle of prejudice when she realizes that the abbot and his loyal knight John Wynter seek death for her and Teraf.
Final Word: Well-drawn characters and the strong sense of time and place will have readers rushing to read Tabor's Trinket, the prequel to this book.
.... Joan Hinkemeyer for the Rocky Mountain News
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Hello, and welcome!
I'm Janet Lane, author of historical romance set in fifteenth century England during the "Gypsy Honeymoon" decades when Gypsies were actuall welcome in the western European countries in which they traveled, their travels even financed by royalty and nobility.
The Coin Forest series started with Tabor's Trinket, released in November, 2006.
See below for fascinating facts about early and contemporary Gypsuies.
Learn more about my books on my BOOKS page.
Fascinating Gypsies .....
IDENTITY - Gypsies were first known in Western Europe as nobility, kings and counts who had traveled from Little Egypt. Initially referred to as Egyptians, eventually shortened to 'Gyptians, and eventually "Gypsies." Many prefer to be called Rom or Roma, nothing to do with Romania but a term meaning "man."
LOVE - How to say "I love you" in Romani: Kahm-ahf-toot
SOCIAL PASSPORT - Gypsies traveled during the fifteenth century with "safe conduct papers" issued by Sigismund, King of Hungary. They claimed to be pilgrims on a seven-year penitential journey out of Little Egypt.
CURRENT POPULATION - 10-12 million, located all over the world, with significant numbers in the Balkan peninsula, Soviet Union, Western and Eastern Europe, the Middle East and Africa
EMERALD SILK - Jewelers identify emeralds by their hardness and color. Its green color is caused by minute traces of chromium. Emeralds sometimes contain feather-like material, often called silk, called by some a flaw, admired by others as unique properties of the stone. EMERALD SILK events occur in 1448 at a Somerset horse fair, at the Cerne Monastery, and on an island in England's Poole Harbor.
Copyright 2008 Janet Lane, Author. All Rights Reserved.
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