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| Original cover, one of my favorites |
Welcome to Irish month on Historical Romance Review! I'm starting with a tale set in Ireland with a wonderful Irish heroine.
Crown of Mist is a captivating
story of a love between an Irish peasant lass, Brianna Devlin, and a British
lord, Creighton Wakefield, loyal to Charles II. It is set in Ireland, England
and France in 1649, beginning with Cromwell’s terrible attack on Drogheda, north of Dublin at the mouth of the
River Boyne, as a part of England’s attempt to subjugate Ireland.
Brianna, a fierce fighter, has lost her
two older brothers in the battle. She and her younger brother are saved only because
they were hidden in a well (over her objection). When the battle is over, she
encounters Creigh who, having been a spy for Charles II, is trying to escape
Ireland. One of Cromwell’s troops wounds him and Brianna, a healer, tends him
and travels with him to the coast where he expects to join a ship.
On the way,
Creigh and Brie fall in love. Though they become lovers, they don’t expect to
end up together because of their different classes, but events conspire to keep
them together.
The story has a fair amount of brutal
fighting and some really evil villains who do some ugly things. There’s
lots of angst as Brianna suffers one misfortune after another, not to mention
the fact she is viewed by all as less than moral traveling with Creigh.
It's a compelling
story and Cates paints vivid word pictures of the life of an Irish girl at the
time. Brianna, though her beginnings were modest, has extraordinary
intelligence, skill and courage. It was easy to see why a man with a noble
heart like Creigh would fall in love with her. Buy on Amazon.
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