Three Hearts For the Emerald Isle
Read the story**THE EMERALD ISLE COLLECTOR — Synopsis** Every Christmas, three families return to Ireland—a tradition forged when their parents became inseparable at Boston College in 1985. The Hales travel from Georgia, the Kims from Boston, the Swans from Seattle. Decades ago, they pooled their money and purchased Ashford Glen Manor in County Clare. For thirty years, they have gathered in its stone halls, raised their littles as cousins, and called this rain-soaked island their second home. Emily Swan has grown up adored and protected by this sprawling clan. Now thirty, she studies mythology and sees the world through symbols and stories. She has also spent a decade pretending not to notice that Liam Hale and Alex Kim look at her like she hung the moon—or that she looks back the same way. This Christmas, pretense shatters. Confession follows confession. Three become one. But the manor's caretaker has been watching. Cormac O'Brien descends from a line of men who collect beautiful things—and beautiful women. He has studied Emily for months. Courted her with tokens she doesn't understand. In his mind, she already belongs to him. When warnings fail, he takes her. Emily wakes imprisoned on the Dingle Peninsula, displayed like art in a madman's gallery. Cormac wants surrender. She offers war. His attempt to force her ends with his blood on broken glass. Her family does not wait for authorities. Liam, Alex, and her brother James scale the cliffs and breach the estate. Violence erupts in Cormac's gallery of past victims. Emily frees herself. Cormac plunges from the rocks into black water below. His body is never found. His crimes fill headlines for months. Emily rebuilds in Savannah, then Seattle, wrapped in the love of two men who would burn the world for her. Fall brings vows. Winter brings snow. And new life. *all sexual advances are wanted.