Fairy Tale Romance The Healer's Apprentice, (Paperback)

from seescootread

A rare stand alone novel in the world of teen trilogies, The Healer's Apprentice is a sweet fairytale romance with dashing lords, innocent maidens, and evil-doers. Rose is a peasant girl raised in a small village who was chosen by the castle healer to be her apprentice. Rose's life gets a little ...

from Sneezybee23

Being a healer's apprentice affords Rose many benefits. She reads Latin, writes stories, knows how to use herbs to heal, and earns an income that allows her to avoid marriage to a bachelor of her mother's choosing. Rose's problem is that blood makes her squeamish. When she must treat Lord Hamlin,...

from nbmars

This is a genre blend of historical YA/Christian/romance/fairy tale fiction, set in the Fourteenth Century. Rose, raised by a poor woodcutter and serving as an apprentice to the village healer, somewhat improbably but providentially draws the favorable attention of the Duke of Hagenheim's two han...

from Medievalgirl

My third read by Melanie Dickerson (although the first book she wrote) did provide some interesting background, as two of the successive books have as leading characters the children of the protagonists. I confess to being perhaps a little obsessed with the subject of surgery and the medical prof...

from sheena0529

This book really drew me in...I didn't realize it was Christian fiction until the end of the book. But it was a good story (especially for free!). I figured out the twist about half-way through though.