Antoinette Berthelotte

Fiona of Kinsale Antoinette Berthelotte

If you're Irish, or wish you were, and love historical novels, this book's for you! Fiona Gearaghty's future seemed assured during the summer of 1601. She was still in the bosom of her loving and prosperous family, in a picturesque village on the southern Irish Coast. She had several choices of whom to wed, but Roland, rich and from the prominent Fitzpatrick family, was her best choice for security, if not for love.

However, her life turned upside down in the fall as the Spaniard's last Armada, through the capriciousness of winds and weather, put the village of Kinsale in the middle of a historic battle for a free Ireland. With upheaval, tragedy and deprivation as a backdrop, Fiona's safe future is cruelly torn from her and she is forced to find a new path while hiding a black secret from those she loved. How she learned to make decisions she never thought she would have to make, and how she handled the guilt that she carried, makes a warm and inspiring tale mixed in with some little known history of the Emerald Isle.