Review: A Troubled Beginning
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 07 14, 2014
Dera' s mother told her that she didn't want her, couldn't take care of her. That was a lie, and it wasn't the first lie that she had been told. Dera was sent to live with her Uncle Timothy and Aunt Lydia in Ireland. Uncle Timothy worked as an overseer for Lord Avery Fairfax. Dera had learned to be helpful and stay out of the way. She soon learned how to take care of the rent ledgers.Quint Flannery and his parents live as tenants of Lord Fairfax, on property they once owned.Dera learns that Quint is part of an Irish rebel group who burn the homes of English aristocrats. The landowners were hated because they had been given positions of wealth, power over the locals, and they had confiscated their land.  They were starved and when they became too weak to work, they were locked out of their houses and driven away.Dera loves Quint, but he also has another bed partner.  Although Dera doesn't love him, she agrees to marry Lord Fairfax.  He is unable to fulfilling his physical manly duties.Quaint is captured, jailed and sentenced to hang for his crimes. Later, he escapes from prison, and Lord Fairfax is murdered. Quaint believes that Dera betrayed him. She didn't. This story meanders through historical space and time. We are torn between anguish for Dera, who is now pregnant, and the tale of two lovers torn apart by deeds and misdeeds. New Orleans beckons to both. They ventured forth for a new chance at life, leaving behind their emerald desire on the ever green, Emerald Isle.Shades of Irish ghosts! This story will thrill and chill your bones. Read and enjoy. Lynette Vinet has written and had published eleven historical romance novels.