Spellbound - Couverture souple

Baker, Jeanette

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0671034588 ISBN 13 : 9780671034580

Editeur : Pocket Books, 2001

A propos du livre

Biographie de l'auteur

There is no greater pleasure for me than to wake before dawn, turn on my computer, reenter a world I've created and watch a story grow before my eyes. From as early on as I can remember, I've always appreciated a good story. I'm of Irish descent, from a small island off the coast of western Ireland, and I hail from a long line of famous storytellers, among them Liam and Robert O'Flaherty. The Irish have a unique relationship with the literature, oral and written. Our single greatest claim to fame is found in the immortality of the words written by our writers: Synge, Yeats, Joyce, Beckett, Shaw, O'Casey, Swift and Heaney, Behan and many, many others. More than any other race on earth, the Irish appreciate a story well told. My fondest childhood memories are of when my father would come home, gather his children around him, and create a story as rousing and complicated and touching as only he could tell it. I have always been a writer, a journalist of both feature and news articles, but it wasn't until 1992 that I penned my first romance novel. I had visited Scotland and become fascinated with the hauntingly brutal events of the massacre at Glencoe. I wove a story around the historical event, creating characters and motivations. The book truly seemsd to write itself and unbelievably, it sold. After that I wrote two more Scottish novels, paranormals, before I attempted my first Irish novel. Ireland's history is a fascinating and complicated one. After my venture into Scottish history, I felt I was ready to tackle Irish politics and Irish Lady as born, followed by Nell and Irish Fire. In ish more is home for me. It is a place where newborns are christened in traditional celtic tradition, with tiny tastes of soil to cement their relationship with the land, an ancient Druid custom. It is a place where the journey is more important than the destination, where mists blur the line between heaven and earth, where it is easy to

Présentation de l'éditeur

Applauded as "a forceful writer of character and conflict" (Publishers Weekly), Jeanette Baker uses her "exceptional gift for storytelling" (Romantic Times) to create satisfying, evocative novels that resonate with rich tradition and the passions of the human heart. SPELLBOUND Life is hard for outlanders on the island of Inishmore, a lesson Mollie Tierney's mother learned long ago. After eleven years, Emma Tierney took her infant daughter and headed home to America, leaving her resigned husband and defiant son behind. Nearly three decades later, eager to know her Irish kin, Mollie accepts a temporary teaching position on the island. Before she can even pack her bags, word comes that her brother and his wife, Kerry, have died, leaving Emma custody of their young children. Heartbroken, Mollie vows to help care for her nieces and nephew until Emma can send for them. But Mollie has reckoned without her feelings for Sean O'Malley, Kerry's grief-stricken twin. Determined to keep the children, he sees Mollie as the enemy even as he yearns to hold her close. It's up to Mollie to teach him to trust his heart -- and her own.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Pocket Books
• Date d'édition: 2001
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0671034588
• ISBN 13: 9780671034580
• Reliure: Poche
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible