![]() It's one of the things Henley does so well-excellent characters and a plot with great twists and turns! Both have Irish blood running through their veins-at a time when Queen Elizabeth feared the rebellious Irish. Just the woman to tame a wild man like Shane Hawkhurst. She is fiercely independent, courageous, feisty and smart. ![]() She intends to go to Court and seduce her husband and become his mistress, making him her love slave and having her revenge. ![]() Ah, but Sara-as Sabre-has a different plan. Shane planned to have his brother Matthew take Sara to one of his estates and dump her there, never wishing to meet her. 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 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. But his English father claimed him as heir, and when Shane's father died, Shane became Lord Hawkhurst. 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. Captain Shane Hawkhurst was Queen Bess' favorite. 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. ![]() I love Henley's storytelling, her attention to historic detail and her ability to weave a captivating tale. ![]()
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