This novel really made me wish like Stephen that i also had faith in God and some higher power. Like most young people i rarely do think about Death and life after death, just because it is too far away from me right now to be real. But what if i would have to die tomorrow? And i knew it. Wouldn't I wish there is more to life than we all see around us? Wouldn't I wish that when i die, it won't be THE END?
Stephen knew he was going to die and all these questions started inside him and made him wish he was religious and a beleiver like Rosalind, so that he would be sure that he would still be seeing his loved ones again after he died. Life and death both are so much easier to endure if you have faith.
Towards the end when Stephen was dying i cried quiet a few times which is rare for me.
This type of romance novel remind me why after reading more than thousand romances i still keep coming back to read more and more?
In the beginning i had a hard time getting into the story but from the time when Stephen told rosalind about his illness it became hard for me to put down.
Very good thought provoking romance with a surprise happy ending!

I feel like this is one of those series' that should go on and on forever, but in that special way it does.
Everyone of the fallen Angles and their honorary members do indeed have that happily ever after symbolism in the heart of every Mary Jo Putney fan of her legendary Fallen Angel series.
But why do I still feel a sense of wanting.....a thirst to go out and simply read everything this author has ever penned??? Because she is a great story teller that's why, one is left with little choice. Though my appetite is limited to the Napoleon/Regency/Georgian Era, I'm tempted to purchase her contemporary modern novels.

Stephen's story was wonderful to read, even though the plot was less in depth than some others in the series and the simplest mind would have figured it out within the first few chapters, it was a great ending to the series.
I'll miss these couples terribly but like I said, they will live on in my heart forever and ever.....I'm almost in tears, this is ridiculous but true. Nothing more to say....go out and purchase this entire series NOW!!!!!!!

This is my favorite Mary Jo Putney novel. After all, who could resist the delectable characters in One Perfect Rose? I have read all of Mary Jo Putney's books, and I have to say that this is the one that I keep coming back to. (Needless to say, the Fallen Angels series is my favorite series of hers.) In fact, I've reread this so many times that the binding is threatening to fall apart! The characters of Rosalind and Stephen and their love are refreshingly sweet and utterly irrisistible. It is blantantly easy to enter their two different worlds and share the underlying attraction that is always there between them.

Rosalind Fitzgerald Jordan is a sweet widowed actress who is also extremely beautiful;she has grown up in a loving, honest environment despite the "disgrace" of being associated with the theater. Her adoptive parents are also strolling players who are skilled at their craft and thoroughly in love with each other. Stephen Kenyon, the Duke of Ashburton, comes from a completely different world from which he is trying to escape after learning of his nearing death from his physician. Rescuing Rosalind's little brother from drowning in a river, he steps into her world quite ably and the two are caught up in a whirlwind of passion and love.

Several twists are also included in the course of the novel but doesn't detract in any way from the main plotline. Mary Jo Putney is a gifted writer and if you have read any of her books, or even if you haven't even heard of her before, One Perfect Rose is the book to try. All the others will pale in comparison to the dazzle of this romance, and I guarantee that you won't regret it.