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Beyond The Cliffs Of Kerry (Historical Fiction About Bold Women) (2002)

by Amanda Hughes(Favorite Author)

3.86 of 5 Votes: 2

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English

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Romance

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Amazon Digital Services

review 1: It's never easy to be Irish. And in 1755 Ireland, times were extremely hard forcing the fine citizens of Kerry to secretly create a trading system with the French that would bring them food to help keep those that survived "The Hunger" from likewise perishing. Darcy McBride did her part to participate in that extremely dangerous activity as did her brother, Liam. Darcy is smart and ambitious and eagerly accepts the tutoring of a Jesuit priest when he is smuggled into the village. She loves the ability to read and write and finds it to her advantage when events turn decidedly more ugly.The price paid for smuggling their wool for French brandy that provided the food was death and when one of their own betray them, a number of the villagers are hung. Darcy escapes death with ... morethe help of a friend and is sold into 7 years of servitude and sent to the colonies of young America. She is sold to Nathan Lawrence who uses her at his convenience. While at the fort, she eventually meets Jean Michel Lupe', a strapping surveyor and a strong, independent colonist with extensive knowledge of the primitive northeast, populated by the Abenaki, and sparks begin to fly.Fighting is not new to Darcy, and she again finds herself fighting for her life and that of her new love, Jean Michel, and the romance takes a torturous route to freedom for them both. The characters are well developed. The scenes can be clearly visualized and there is a good progression of the plot that never lets down. Recommended for any historical romance fiction fan--this is a good one and hard to put down!
review 2: In 1755 Ireland historical fiction with light romance and lots of action. This is the story about Darcy McBride a beautiful, headstrong, independent young woman from Ireland. The story has adventure, mysteries, a lot of twist and turns, action, passion, and love, it is also a very clean, well written book. It was Amanda Hughes debut book. I got hooked from the first page and it was hard to put down. Darcy was involved into smuggling brandy into Ireland all the men that were involved were hung but since Darcy was a woman she was sent to the English Colonies in America as an indentured slave for seven years. This is one book you do not want to miss. less

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