The story is set in 1586, when Queen
Elizabeth ruled England and her sea hawks ruled the seas, robbing the Spanish
fleet to fill her coffers. Captain Shane Hawkhurst was Queen Bess' favorite.
She named him the sea god. He was, in fact, not the son of Lord Hawkhurst, but
the son of an Irishman named O'Neill, the Earl of Tyrone. But his English father
claimed him as heir, and when he died, Shane became Lord Hawkhurst. He had
promised his father he would marry and to stave off Queen Bess' jealousy and
because he did not really want a wife, he had his solicitor find a country lass
who had some land in Ireland he wanted and married her by proxy.
Little did he know his new wife was the
red-haired Irish vixen, Sara Bishop, referred to by her jealous half siblings
as "Sabre Wilde" after her dead father and his sword. Shane planned
to have his brother Matthew take Sara to one of his estates and dump her there
never to even meet her. Ah, but Sara--as Sabre--has a different plan. She will
go to court and seduce her husband and become his mistress making him her love
slave and having her revenge.
You have to love this heroine. She is fiercely independent, courageous, feisty and smart. Just the woman to tame a wild man like Shane Hawkhurst. And Shane is a man worthy of taming. Both have Irish blood running through their veins--at a time when Queen Elizabeth feared the rebellious Irish. So the sparks fly continuously.
I love Henley's storytelling, her attention to historic detail and her ability to weave a captivating tale. Her love scenes are unique and fit the people and the story--very well done, very sexy and not contrived. It is so worth it to dive into one of her complex, winsome tales. Nothing like the fluff often passed off as historical romance these days.
You have to love this heroine. She is fiercely independent, courageous, feisty and smart. Just the woman to tame a wild man like Shane Hawkhurst. And Shane is a man worthy of taming. Both have Irish blood running through their veins--at a time when Queen Elizabeth feared the rebellious Irish. So the sparks fly continuously.
I love Henley's storytelling, her attention to historic detail and her ability to weave a captivating tale. Her love scenes are unique and fit the people and the story--very well done, very sexy and not contrived. It is so worth it to dive into one of her complex, winsome tales. Nothing like the fluff often passed off as historical romance these days.
In addition to wonderful characters, a
great plot and interesting history, she has included some great one-liners. One
of my favorites was: "...to be Irish is to know the world will break your
heart before you are thirty." So true.
Get this one; you won't regret it!
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