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?

Call Home the Heart, 4 1/2 stars Romantic Times, Top Pick, and Reviewer’s Choice Award Nominee for best romance of the year

Setting: Ireland, 1845

Word Count=117,000, 417 8.5 x 11″ pages in length

Rating: Quite Sensual

Order now: $5.99

Call Home the Heart, Shannon Farrell

Ireland, 1845

Widowed by a shooting accident on her honeymoon, Muireann Caldwell discovers that her wastrel husband Augustine has left her penniless, and almost homeless. She now faces returning to her smothering family back in Scotland, or charting her own course with the crumbling Caldwell estate in Ireland.

Deciding to remain in Ireland to tackle Barnakilla and its mountain of debt, Muireann turns to the handsome, capable Lochlainn Roche, her late husband’s estate manager, for support.

Lochlainn worries that with Augustine dead, his lifelong home will be forfeited, especially if the young widow decides to run home to Scotland.

But he’s surprised by the strength Muireann displays, and grows to admire her courage and determination, especially as the Irish Potato Famine begins to spread its blight on the land he loves so well.

Muireann struggles to re-build the estate and create a sanctuary all can call home. She grows to love Barnakilla as much as Lochlainn does. Dare he hope she returns the love he has found for her? Or will the sacrifices she is forced to make prove too much for her?

And dare Lochlainn even trust her? When her husband’s cousin begins to ask questions about the fatal shooting accident, Muireann and Lochlainn must trust to love if they are ever to save Muireann and Barnakilla from certain doom….

Muireann’s lips parted with a sigh, deepening the sweet kiss into something much more compelling as he raised one hand to hold her chin tenderly and explored her mouth with a leisurely thoroughness that thrilled them both to the core.

At last Lochlainn lifted his lips, knowing he couldn’t hide his throbbing desire for her forever. But she seemed untroubled by the kiss, stroking her hand down the long column of his neck with her eyes closed.

“How long will it take us to get to Enniskillen?” she asked sleepily.

“We should be there by tea time if we have clear roads, but then we’ll have to hope for a lift out to Barnakilla,” he whispered against her silken hair, now a mass of curls which he tousled with this hands, savoring the soft feel of her all over.

Like a rose without thorns. The thought came to him suddenly, and he found the simile apt.

Muireann nodded, and stroked the hand around her as she returned her head to the pillow. She reflected somewhere in the back of her drowsy mind how wonderful Lochlainn felt in the bed beside her. How they just seemed to fit together.

She had had the strangest sensation when she had first met him on the docks in Dun Laoghaire, and their hands had touched in greeting. She had trembled then as though the ground under her were shaking. She had felt almost as if she had come home, though of course she had never before set foot in Ireland. As though they belonged together for all time…

Call Home the Heart

Shannon Farrell

Setting: Ireland, 1845

Word Count=117,000, 417 8.5 x 11″ pages in length

Rating: Quite Sensual
BUY EBOOK NOW:

Buy the Paperback from Amazon: Call Home The Heart

Click on the link to read the first chapter:

Call Home the Heart

The Fire’s Center
Book 1 of The Fire of the Heart series
Shannon Farrell

Unemployed governess Riona Connolly is willing to do anything to save her family from starvation during the Irish Potato Famine. When she meets the handsome Dr. Lucien Woulfe, who offers her post at his clinic, it seems a dream come true.

No man has ever stimulated Riona so completely, in mind and body. Yet she knows her burning attraction to her sensual employer is forbidden in the straight-laced, class-conscious society of Victorian Dublin.

Lucien never imagined he would ever meet a woman who could share his life so perfectly. A dedicated doctor who has been wounded by love in the past, he has no time for relationships. Yet one look at Riona, and he burns with a passion which soon grows all-consuming for them both.

But as the Famine rages, and brings a deadly series of fevers with it. Riona and Lucien must walk through the fire’s center to secure their happiness before it is destroyed by the enemies aligning themselves against the unsuspecting couple, and by the vagaries of Fate.

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

After an hour of quizzing her verbally, Lucien pronounced himself more than satisfied with her medical knowledge, and decided to give her a slide test.

“Here, you keep looking down the microscope, and I’ll hand you the slides one by one, so you can’t peek at the labels,” he suggested.

“All right,” Riona agreed, and soon began rattling off the names of the samples he handed her.

Lucien stood close bedside Riona, as if drawn there by some magnetic force. Try as he might, he couldn’t take his eyes off the tempting flesh of her arms and the shadowy curve of her breasts as they worked side by side.

Though surrounded by flowers in the study, which the maid had put there to brighten up the otherwise rather dull room, Lucien could also smell her own distinctive perfume, fresh, wholesome, and infinitely more alluring that the Parisian concoctions his female acquaintances practically bathed themselves in for formal functions.

Suddenly she held out her hand and asked, “Next one, please?”

Lucien jumped out of his reverie for a moment to hand her the glass slide, but all of a sudden he found himself grasping her fingers tightly instead.

As Riona looked up from the microscope in surprise, Lucien took a step closer to her and pulled her into his warm embrace.

Riona’s lips parted with a gasp, so that Lucien had free access to the tempting delights of her mouth, and the hungry kiss they shared soon left them wanting more.

Lucien ran his hands up and down the length of Riona’s spine, and he thanked God silently that she wore no corsets as he caressed her feminine fullness above and below.

Riona for her own part tried to remain stiff and unyielding in his torrid embrace, but the heat of his passion melted her reserve. She soon found her arms creeping around his neck, while her lips slanted across his mouth to deepen the kiss even further.

Lucien laced his fingers through Riona’s hair, scattering pins and her silk ribbon all about the room as her auburn locks tumbled down around her shoulders. He began to kiss her face and neck then, nuzzling her hair, before whispering, “Lovely, so lovely,” in her shell-like ear.

Lucien knew he ought to stop. Had to stop. But the vibrant woman he held in his arms worked on him like some powerful drug. The more he took liberties with Riona, the bolder he became. The more she matched his caresses, and the more inflamed he grew…

The Fire’s Center
Book 1 of The Fire of Love series
Shannon Farrell
Genre=Historical Romance
Setting= Victorian Ireland, Irish Potato Famine
Rating: Very sensual
Word Count=78,300 words
Price=$4.99

Read the first chapter free here: The Fire’s Center

Tell us what you are reading, and give us a mini review of why you are enjoying the book, or not. So many books, so little time!

I’m reading the first book in the Hunger of the Heart Series, Hunger for Love by Shannon Farrell. I had read her awesome award-winning book Call Home the Heart, and thought I would try this new series.

Wow, this woman really knows her stuff. The details of the Famine are fascinating if grim reading, and the way she describes Ireland, I feel as if I am right there with her. The couple, Dalton and Emer, are so HOT together, it makes for a really fast read, and I can’t wait to see what happens in the next book.  They have so many obstacles to overcome, and it is wonderful to see characters who grow and develop.