In the wake of the Great War, a young woman joins the Irish rebellion and risks everything for her country in this sweeping story of love, bravery and the relentless pursuit of freedom from bestselling author Karen Robards.
Ireland, 1918. In a world brutalized by the Great War and devastated by the Spanish flu, twenty-two-year-old Rynn Carmichael is suddenly pulled into the war of independence when Donal O'Reilly, the boy she has loved for most of her life, takes up gunrunning in support of the rebellion.
Raised in a small Irish village on the shores of Donegal Bay, Rynn is working as a nurse in a convalescent home for soldiers wounded in the Great War when she overhears a British officer gloating over the trap that has been set for Irish gunrunners bringing a boat full of smuggled arms ashore. Knowing that Donal must be involved, she rushes out at midnight to warn the incoming boat, only to find herself caught up in a terrifying and tragic series of events that take her from the glittering ballrooms of London to the narrow back alleys of Dublin as she and those she loves fight for their lives and their country.
"This exciting audiobook chronicles the period in Irish history, just after the Great War, when the people of Ireland began organizing their resistance to British rule. The heroine of this story is a young Irish nurse, Rynn Carmichael, who is drawn into the struggle for freedom. Narrator Alana Kerr Collins tells Rynn's story and gives voice to her many challenges, romances, and acts of incredible bravery. Collins has a wonderful fluency with accents, and she creates voices for English lords, cockney ruffians, and swashbuckling Irish ship captains, as well as for common folk. The action in this story is nonstop, the atmosphere is brilliantly conveyed, and the characters are wholly believable.
Historical fiction filled with romance and daring."
