title: The Rose Legends: Book One: Found
author:  Kate Brown 
description: This first novel in a series of six is one I've been working on for half of my life now. It's taken years of writing, rewriting, reworking, editing, and then I would completely ignore the draft I had and just start over. Originally, the first four in the series were all separate novels, not even beginning to tie together in any way. Now I've created them in such a way that you cannot read one without the others.<br />I am constantly finding little surprises even in Book One, though it is already published and finished; things which I can use in the other novels which I had previously overlooked.<br />I'm excited to have finished Book One and am working tirelessly on Book Two, working title: Brand.<br />These are the first books I started writing seriously for publication and they are the first to be finished.
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  [Prologue](01-b