He’d known from an early age the backbreaking work of plowing a field behind a horse named Moon. He’d lost an uncle and his oldest brother in the first Great War, had grieved for a sister who’d died before her eighteenth birthday delivering her second child. He’d known hunger in the lean times, had never forgotten the taste of his mother’s bread and butter pudding-or the whip-swat of her hand when he’d earned it. When Liam Sullivan died, at the age of ninety-two, in his sleep, in his own bed with his wife of sixty-five years beside him, the world mourned.īorn in a little cottage tucked in the green hills and fields near the village of Glendree in County Clare, he’d been the seventh and last child of Seamus and Ailish Sullivan. Nonetheless, fans of Roberts’s intense contemporary tales will enjoy this high-stakes love story.And its nature is sweetness-until something happens.
Cate, meanwhile, is a gritty and charismatic but often unbelievable protagonist-even as a kid her instincts are perfect. The action unfolds quickly, though some threads resolve too neatly and the main twists feel abrupt. But as Cate’s feelings for Dillon develop, she once again becomes the target of threats-which may be linked to the recent release of her mother from prison. As Cate grows up, the shadow of what her mother did follows her until, as a grown woman, she returns home and is reunited with Dillon, the boy whose family owns the ranch Cate escaped to after her kidnapping. Once the police begin investigating, it becomes evident that Cate’s mother planned the kidnapping as a way to make some quick money and is arrested. At a celebration of his life, Cate is kidnapped and held for ransom, but she soon escapes to a nearby ranch. Ten-year-old Cate Sullivan is a fourth generation actor whose famous great-grandfather has recently died. An early trauma shapes the course of a woman’s life in this impactful drama from Roberts ( Under Currents).
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