Olivia Maitland is now the only Maitland left at Peachtree – illness, war, alcoholism, and depression took her two brothers and parents over the years. Thirty seconds later, Tyler’s men beat Conor to a pulp and leave him on the road. So he beats the local fighter and walks away with twenty-five dollars.
But Conor has a streak of defiance and stubbornness a mile wide, and he has nothing to lose. His boxing manager tells him that the man running the prizefight, Vernon Tyler, owns pretty much the whole town, and would take it very badly if the home boy lost to an Irish immigrant, and lost Vernon a whole heap of money. It is 1871 in Callersville, Louisiana, and Conor is about ignore some good advice. This is the standard for American historicals. Well, for once you can believe the hyperbole and buzz. Guhrke released this tale of an Irish boxer and a Southern lady electronically, and I finally read it a few nights ago after hearing amazing things. For years this 1996 RITA winner has been out of print, but last year Ms. But she and her three adopted daughters touch dreams in Conor he thought he'd forgotten long ago.I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again: Thank God for digital publishing, and authors willing to make the transition. He'd already seen his family destroyed and their lands taken during the Irish famine when he was a boy, and he has no intention of sticking around long enough to watch a corrupt man with power do the same thing to Olivia. But in the aftermath of the Civil War, men like that are hard to come by, and when she finds ex-boxer Conor Branigan lying unconscious in the road, Olivia takes him in, even though the hard, brawling Irishman isn't exactly what she had in mind, especially when he ignites a passion in her she's never felt before.Ĭonor knows what it's like to pour all your hopes, dreams, and sweat into a piece of land only to have it come to nothing. Determined to hang onto her family's Louisiana farm no matter what, Olivia knows she needs a big, strong man to help her, a man who's not afraid of hard work.
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