Rois is a wld thing, a daughter of a farmer who loves the woods. One day she sees a man appear out of no where. Corbet returns to his father's manor, left by his father when he supposedly killed his own father and was cursed (though none can seem to remember exactly what the curse was), to restore it an live. Rois is fascinated by the man who appears to have no past, her sister Laurel falls in love with him. Then he disappears and a dead man is found in his home. Rois must unravel the mysery of his disappearance to save her sister.
Impression: While all of McKillip's books have places that can be hard to follow, they seem to be more dreams told as stories and far less concrete than most, Winter Rose was the most difficult to follow of them all. I still enjoyed her word play, her descriptions, but I found the story a very difficult read, and, in many ways, I'm still not quite sure what happened in much of it. The writing is all McKillip, but I think I'm going to have to read it again to understand it. This one went just a little too deep for me, I guess.
A friend told me she read this particular book when she had a fever over 100. Man, that must have been pretty surreal!
