Scarlet Rose #1: "I Knew I'd Meet You"

Description

Maud is quite happy living her simple life with her father and learning the exciting art of sword fighting. But when her father is murdered, Maud is whisked away from the life she knows by her rich and lordly grandfather. He wants to give her a home - on his terms - and help Maud become a real lady. All Maud wants to do is keep on fighting, so that she can have her revenger on her father's killer. High adventure and historical fiction come together in a swashbuckling thriller! Swords, vengeance, and a dashing highwayman known as the Fox comprise the key components to The Scarlet Rose, as Maud learns everything she thought she knew about her life wasn't true, and how to grow and grieve after losing her father. The Scarlet Roseblends exciting, thrilling action with grounded, emotional characterization.

Apart from The Scarlet Rose, Patricia Lyfoung has worked as an assistant story board artist for Totally Spies! and Martin Mystery at Marathon Animation (where she also worked on character creation). In 2005, she published a mini-comic called Strike in Coyote Magazine, telling the story of a girl who disguises herself as a boy in order to play baseball. Eleven volumes of THE SCARLET ROSE have been published by Delcourt (in France) since 2005. The twelfth volume is expected in October 2016.