When she discovered that her first true love, the earl of Lanark, Lord Alexander Stevens was to marry another, Catherine Billington's simple world seemed to come crashing down. Despite their disparate stations in society, the young Englishwoman had allowed herself to believe in a future where the two of them belonged together. While her feelings for the Scottish earl may never truly fade, her undeniable attraction to Lord Lanark's equally handsome friend and business partner, the amiable Thomas Cravens, might not only serve to distract her from the heartbreak she's been dealt, but offer a real chance for the promise of companionship and security that she thought was lost forever. Is it possible to be in love with two different people at the same time, or is there always a dangerous element of betrayal in such entangled feelings? And will Catherine and Thomas's interest in each other eventually destroy their complicated individual relationships with the earl? The second chapter in The English Garden Series, "A Rose Between Two Thistles" brings the reader right back to the moment where the well-received first volume, "In An English Garden", left off.