Sharon Allen Gilder

Mystery, old family secrets, misaligned love, and loss collide with inevitability in this sequel to Sharon Allen Gilder’s novel, The Rose Beyond. Vivid characters with ties to England and Wales abound in Beyond the Rose, a romantic historical novel set in 1898 in Washington, D.C.Beyond the Rose blooms with the perils of unrequited love while a labyrinth of lies and secrets threaten to destroy the household of forbidding patriarch Sir Ian Hargrove, his wife Elsbeth, and their daughter Arielle. Immerse yourself in the Hargrove’s ongoing saga where the bonds of love and family, entwined in deceit, betrayal, and mistrust are challenged by vestiges of the past.A diary entry sets in motion a quest to unravel a tapestry of clues. A stunning truth is discovered and a time of reckoning spreads like a menacing shadow over the Hargrove’s threshold. Beyond the Rose tests the strength of family and relationships and reminds us that secrets, unless taken to the grave, always return home.

Native Washingtonian, Sharon Allen Gilder is an author and freelance journalist. Her stories and articles have appeared in newspapers including: The Washington Post, The Gazette, The Town Courier, The North Potomac Times, Potomac Almanac, and Great Falls Connection, as well as national magazines including: Montessori Life, Tomorrow’s Child, Home & Design, Advance for Speech-Language Pathologists, Montgomery Magazine, and the Arts and Humanities Council for Montgomery County’s online magazine. She is married, an alumnus of the University of Maryland, and an educator. She taught at Woodward High School in Rockville, Maryland and she wrote the personal safety curriculum, Safety, Touch & Me for the Montgomery County Public Schools. For many years she was the Director of Marketing for a private school in Rockville, Maryland. An avid reader, she caught the writing bug at an early age. She penned several children’s books that she hopes to see in print one day. Her love of music prompted her to write an Irish drinking song in celebration of St. Patrick’s Day titled, ＂Oh The Whiskey,＂ which she performs locally and it can be viewed on YouTube.com. Her debut novel, The Rose Beyond, a historical romance set in 1897 in Washington, D.C. with characters that have ties to England and Wales, was published in 2014. The story is a fragrant reminder of the tenacity of the human spirit and the power of love. In 2017, Beyond the Rose, the sequel to The Rose Beyond, was published. Set in 1898, mystery, old family secrets, misaligned love, and loss collide with inevitability as vivid characters with ties to England and Wales abound. Beyond the Rose tests the strength of family and relationships and reminds us that secrets, unless taken to the grave, always return home.