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The Everlasting Covenant
The Everlasting Covenant is a tale of peril and romance, great courage and forbidden love. The setting is fifteenth-century England, during a time of confusion and bloodshed. As the Wars of commence, the York versus Lancaster battle for the throne overturns family fortunes, divides once-close friends, and stifles budding romance between those who think to rise above the turmoil.
Lovely Anne Gifford, ignored by her family and destined for the convent, shares a secret, passionate love with Dylan deFrayne, youngest son in a family with whom the Giffords have engaged in fierce rivalry for decades. Their blossoming love seems doomed. The couple's troubles are compounded by the times, as war aggravates the families' differences and the feud escalates with this excuse for violence. On the eve of their planned elopement, the battles begin, drawing Dylan far from Anne's side.
Though Anne has pledged herself to Dylan far all time, she must marry another to save herself and the child that she and Dylan, unbeknownst to anyone else, including Dylan, have conceived in the desperation of their love. With a new monarch in place, Dylan is exiled to France. Yet the love that Anne and Dylan feel is just beginning. Love takes them on a tortuous path through long separations and attendant troubles, enduring through intervening marriages and deaths, and finally leading them to reunion and the mending of their families' feuds. As the Wars of the Roses end and Henry Tudor is crowned king, Anne and Dylan find the happiness they have long deserved.
In this saga, spanning twenty-five years, Robyn Carr once again transports her readers to another, nobler time -- a time of chivalry and honor and love that survives against overwhelming odds.
Lovely Anne Gifford, ignored by her family and destined for the convent, shares a secret, passionate love with Dylan deFrayne, youngest son in a family with whom the Giffords have engaged in fierce rivalry for decades. Their blossoming love seems doomed. The couple's troubles are compounded by the times, as war aggravates the families' differences and the feud escalates with this excuse for violence. On the eve of their planned elopement, the battles begin, drawing Dylan far from Anne's side.
Though Anne has pledged herself to Dylan far all time, she must marry another to save herself and the child that she and Dylan, unbeknownst to anyone else, including Dylan, have conceived in the desperation of their love. With a new monarch in place, Dylan is exiled to France. Yet the love that Anne and Dylan feel is just beginning. Love takes them on a tortuous path through long separations and attendant troubles, enduring through intervening marriages and deaths, and finally leading them to reunion and the mending of their families' feuds. As the Wars of the Roses end and Henry Tudor is crowned king, Anne and Dylan find the happiness they have long deserved.
In this saga, spanning twenty-five years, Robyn Carr once again transports her readers to another, nobler time -- a time of chivalry and honor and love that survives against overwhelming odds.
393 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 1987
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Robyn Carr
164 books12.6k followers Robyn Carr is a RITA® Award-winning, eleven-time #1 New York Times bestselling author of over sixty novels, including the critically acclaimed Virgin River series and Sullivan's Crossing series. Robyn's new women's fiction novel, THE FRIENDSHIP CLUB, will be released in January 2024. The new hit Sullivan's Crossing TV series (season 1) inspired by Robyn's book series was released in the USA in the fall of 2023! Plus, season 5 of the worldwide fan-favorite Virgin River TV Series is now streaming on Netflix (July 2023) with two holiday episodes coming November 30, 2023. Both TV series have been renewed for another season!
Robyn is a recipient of the Romance Writers of America Nora Roberts Lifetime Achievement Award 2016, and in 2017, VIRGIN RIVER was named one of the HarperCollins 200 Iconic Books of the past 200 years. Robyn currently resides in Las Vegas, Nevada. You can visit Robyn Carr's website at https://www.robyncarr.com/.
Robyn is a recipient of the Romance Writers of America Nora Roberts Lifetime Achievement Award 2016, and in 2017, VIRGIN RIVER was named one of the HarperCollins 200 Iconic Books of the past 200 years. Robyn currently resides in Las Vegas, Nevada. You can visit Robyn Carr's website at https://www.robyncarr.com/.
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April 9, 2019
I was disappointed by the infidelity in a story rich in love and history.
November 14, 2021
Excellent
Excellent love story about waiting ones true love and soulmate!! Thrilling and heart jerking. Hope all enjoy this book. 😃😃😃
Excellent love story about waiting ones true love and soulmate!! Thrilling and heart jerking. Hope all enjoy this book. 😃😃😃
November 30, 2025
3.5 stars
October 12, 2011
I did like this historical romance that was rich in the passion of love and a hard book to put down but it did get heavy into war and people's background details. And I still question who the real hero was. Anne is destined for the convent but falls in love with Dylan from a family feuding with hers.
April 23, 2013
Political posturing, life long love during a time when a women's choices were not her own. I always enjoy reading stories from this time period, we have no idea what a hard life is really like....enjoy this book very much makes me thankful that I was able to choose the man I married without government interference.
August 10, 2016
I guess I was a little bit put off by the blurb but I believed I would change my mind once I would start reading this book. Sadly, that didn't happen. I didn't like behavior of heroine and the behavior of hero was even worse. And those slow-paced passages full of hatred and jealousy, political schemes and long marriages of convenience were akin to torture for me.
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