“This novel has all the fabulous elements we have come to expect from a top-class historical romance novel: the brave heroine, larger than life hero, and cataclysmic events which threaten to separate the loving couple and thwart their happy ending.
Dare Starbuck is a fantastic hero, a great ship captain and legend in his own time. Married to the sea and the job he loves, only a woman as determined as Samantha can ever win his heart and show him that females can cope at on board a whaler. The history is fascinating, the romantic scenes are explosive: this is sensual historical romance at its best.” Evelyn Trimborn, Italian Interlude

5.0 out of 5 stars
Moving and passionate
Historical Romance
Ireland, January 1845

Muireann Graham Caldwell and Augustine, her husband of two weeks, are on a journey to Barnakilla, his estate in northwest Ireland. However, Augustine goes no farther than a Dublin grave, after putting a gun to his head and pulling the trigger.

After living with constant criticism from her mother and sister for not being a proper lady, and defying her strict father by learning all sorts of masculine things, Muireann Graham Caldwell is not about to run home to Scotland now. With the help of Lochlainn Roche, Barnakilla’s estate manager, Muireann is determined to travel on to her new home.

When Lochlainn met the ship carrying the newlyweds, he was taken by the ethereal beauty of Augustine’s wife, but the next months prove the lady possesses strength…and a will of iron…that belie her fragile looks.

She needs that toughness, for her “wealthy” husband bankrupted a once prosperous estate in the three years since he inherited, and he’d already gambled away the thousands of pounds from Muireann’s father that he had been given as her dowry.

The last few years have been hard ones, and the hundred tenants who depend on Barnakilla are in arrears with their rents and have no means to pay in the foreseeable future. Muireann always wanted adventure; she’s wanted to prove to herself and her family that she’s capable of more than tea parties and dancing. Here is her chance.

CALL HOME THE HEART is very much Muireann’s story. She has an almost impossible task ahead of her — already the portents hint at the disastrous potato famine to come — but she rallies and leads the people in rebuilding Barnakilla.

Lochlainn grew up on the land, and he’s there to help her, but she’s the dynamic one. He’s an interesting character, who was betrayed in the past and loath to risk his heart again. He’s torn between wanting to be Muireann’s partner, and believing he’s not good enough for her.

The tenants and landed neighbors play important roles in CALL HOME THE HEART, for they add warmth on the one hand and conflict on the other. While the relationship between Muireann and Lochlainn waxes and wanes, the plot revolving around the fight to feed the people and save the estate takes off at a run and turns CALL HOME THE HEART into an all-nighter. And a nail-biter.

CALL HOME THE HEART is a moving and passionate novel fans of history and romance will enjoy.
Jane Bowers
Romance Reviews Today

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The Unquenchable Fire
Book 2 of The Fire of the Heart Series
Shannon Farrell

Riona Connolly’s saga, first begun in The Fire’s Center, continues as she struggles to make a life for herself in Dublin without her beloved Lucien. Through the enmity of Dr. O’Carroll and Lucien’s sister in law Antoinette, who has always wanted Lucien for herself, the couple seemed destined to separate forever.

Lucien Woulfe continues to battle between temptation and social convention. He aches for Riona with a fevered passion bordering on obsession. But how can he ever marry his former assistant at the clinic? His life with Riona seems so empty and hollow, he begins to question the very nature of the life he has led for so long. But despite being an educated doctor, love seems to be an emotion he knows nothing about.

Yet Riona knows she can’t live without it. The more Lucien demands of her, the more he drives her away, until she is desperate to escape from the life she was so sure she longed for.

Lucien’s brother Quentin proves an unexpected ally and confidant, and soon Riona finds herself returning to her beloved Donegal to fight the Famine there once more, this time on her own terms.

Riona begins to re-build her life slowly. But a shipwreck in the Atlantic sets in motion a series of fateful events which will have earth-shattering consequences for both families.

Only the unquenchable fire of Riona’s spirit and the love she and Lucien share can ever help them overcome the devastation which surrounds them, and threatens all they hold dear.

Can their fiery love win through to a bright future, or will it too become yet another casualty of the Great Blight?

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Evelyn Trimborn

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What a terrific book, fast-paced, suspenseful, and spicy. I just finished it and my head is still buzzing with scenes from it.

Sarah and Alexander are written so well, they are like real people to me. I know the wounded hero and quiet spinster has been done elsewhere, but I certainly haven’t read any like this. Or any Regency romances that weren’t either full of ‘fluff’ or a bunch of strung together sex scenes.

The Matchless Miss is neither. This is real historical Regency romance and historical romance. The chemistry between the hero and heroine can’t be beat. He is blind, and recovering from some serious injuries after the Napoleonic wars, so physical intimacy as she helps heal him and they touch leads to the inevitable, and some sensual sizzling love scenes. We really follow the characters as they fall in love with one another.

We have balls, dancing, suitors, life in Bath, all you would expect from a Regency, and a very sensual couple. But that is not the only thing going on in this romance.

On another level, this book is a suspenseful thriller, for “Alexander” has no real idea of who he is, his true identity. As soon as Sarah starts seeking the truth, all hell breaks loose.

She and her new-found love are in danger seemingly from every side, and she is pretty much alone in her struggles. Most of the Rakehells are off on their summer travels, her brother Jonathan on honeymoon with his new bride [The Miss Matched], the Duke off with his sister Elizabeth in Ireland [see The Scarred Heart for this other great sexy story].

Both Sarah and Alexander live up to the names heroine and hero of this super sensual and suspenseful Regency romance that will keep you turning the pages. Sarah in particular really holds her own, a strong heroine without being witchy, and a woman full of love and compassion, willing to risk anything to win the man she adores.