title: The Ruling Passion
author: Herron, Shaun
description: BLOODLINE OF DESIRE
  
  When Carrach MacDonnell, head of the powerful and wealthy MacDonnell clan in strife-torn Ireland, fell wildly in love with his brother's beautiful young daughter Isabella, he knew he was betraying his wife with a girl forbidden to him by every law of God and man. But even this could not quell Carrach's blazing sexual hunger for Isabella, and following her to America, he brought her home again to bear their child. But Isabella, united with a man old enough to be her father, soon found herself yearning for the lips and arms of Carrach's handsome young son, Alasdar. And all her vows and dreams hung suspended as a mounting tide of passion shattered the most sacred taboos and made her a slave to the burning, physical desire that bound the MacDonnells together forever...
  
   HERE IS A MAGNIFICENT, DRIVING FAMILY SAGA THAT SWEEPS OVER THREE GENERATIONS AND TWO CONTINENTS TO BRING TO LIFE THE FULL-BLOODED MEN AND WOMEN WHO LET NOTHING STAND BETWEEN THEM AND THEIR INSATIABLE LUSTS....