Used book – The Ivory Rose, Todd Caron

An ivory rose... delicately crafted, pale, enchanting, yet fragile and untouchable – that’s what the beautiful Gwen Sinclair evokes for David Bretton. From the very first glance, almost effortlessly, this mysterious and seemingly unapproachable young woman piqued his interest. Yet, she is as different from him as can be, and also from the women he has loved until now. Like a precious flower, she seems to live sheltered, in her own world, protected from reality – untouchable. For David, fascinated despite himself, this attitude is a kind of provocation: he burns to know the young woman better, to tear her away from this cocoon where, in his opinion, she is completely missing out on life, and to carry her with him into the whirlwind of his own existence. But the young woman's temperament is neither her only mystery nor the only obstacle preventing David from approaching her: although she lives alone, Gwen nevertheless wears a wedding ring...