"A not to be put down must read!"

Things are not going well for Bridget Mulligan. Granny Frye had kicked the bucket when she was flattened by a truck while chasing after the old coon hound, General Lee. Then Bridget finds out that Granny had gambling debts, for heavens sakes! What in the world could be next? Then she finds out she's judged her long departed husband wrongly. It seems he did not leave her the day after their wedding night. He was killed in an accident and she never knew. But now she and her son have been asked to come to Ireland to meet her departed husband's family. It seems he has a mother, a sister and a brother who live there.

Riley Mulligan is a disagreeable sort but he just cannot believe that his brother Cully went off to America and married himself off to the first woman he met, especially when he is betrothed to Katie Rearden. He just knows that this woman who says Cully married her only wants Cully?s part of the Mulligan land. When his mother, Fiona, asks Riley to fetch Bridget and her son from the airport he reluctantly agrees. The minute he sees Bridget, he believes she is a cailleach (witch) but her son Jacob is the spitting image of his brother Cully.

The minute Bridget sees Caislean Dubh she's frightened of it but she's also drawn to it. It whispers to her. Then she starts having very sensual dreams. What can this mean? Who is this dream lover? Why is she drawn to Cully's brother Riley when he?s so disagreeable?

I read this book in a matter of hours. It drew me in from the prologue to the very last satisfying page. Not only was this book sensual from the get-go but the charming heroine with her Southern twang added just the right amount of comic relief when it was most needed. Add all this to a dark gothic-like castle with a curse attached to it, and you have a not to be put down, must read book!

Reviewed by Kathy Boswell
Posted May 1, 2002

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Summary

A WOMAN
Single mother Bridget Mulligan is on the verge of homelessness when her late husband's family invites her and her son to Ireland. Irish in-laws sound like more trouble than Grandpa's coonhound when the neighbor's poodle goes into heat, but Bridget is out of options.

A MAN
Riley Mulligan believes the American temptress is only after their property, though he can't deny her son's resemblance to his late brother. Unfortunately, Riley also finds Bridget's guileless and bewitching ways dangerously desirable....

AND DESTINY
The Mulligans' ancestral castle overlooking the sea haunts Bridget, and she realizes that her dreams are somehow tied to the ancient keep. And to the mysterious man who is her brother-in-law....