The Hungry Heart Fulfilled
Book 3 of The Hunger of the Heart Series
Shannon Farrell
Canada and Ireland 1848-1849
Emer Nugent has survived the hell of the Grosse Ile quarantine station in Canada with some help from the Bishop of Quebec and her friends from Ireland, and has embarked on a new life running an orphanage for the Irish emigrant children left parentless by the Famine and terrible fevers which have accompanied it.
She has never stopped loving Dalton Randall, the powerful shipping magnate, but can never forgive what she believes have been his many betrayals of her and her family.
Dalton’s father Frederick is actually to blame for many of the deeds against Emer and her friends. He has done everything he can to separate the couple, and is one step away from achieving all his worldly ambitions.
For Frederick has convinced Dalton that Emer is dead, and Dalton is about to cave in to his manipulative father’s demand that he marry the daughter of a business rival for the sake of their shipping company.
But a chance meeting draws the passionate lovers together once more. Dalton has never stopped loving Emer, and is determined to build a life with her, and a medical practice they can use to help benefit the poor, no matter what Frederick says.
Outraged that his plans for keeping the two apart have failed, and Dalton has no intention of marrying Madeliene Lyndon so their shipping merger can go through smoothly, Dalton’s father has Emer arrested on false charges and transported back to Dublin.
The Ireland Emer returns to is not only still in the grip of the Famine, but also on the brink of civil war. Emer finds herself unwittingly embroiled in the 1848 rebellion, and is put on trial for her life.
Dalton must outwit Frederick if he and Emer are ever to be safe, and must travel half way across the world to try to rescue his one true love from the capital charge of treason before it’s too late.
“No you don’t, Emer. You’re not getting rid of me that easily. I want some answers, and I want them now!” Dalton rasped as he backed her up against the wall until his stomach and thighs pressed intimately against her own.
Emer was sure she was going to faint from desire and fear.
“When I last saw you in August, you were in my bed, a poor governess, making love to me as though it meant everything in the world to you. Now I find you married to your fiance Garvan, whom you swore you never loved, living in a mansion with a troop of male visitors coming in and out of here at all times of the day and night. I want to know exactly what the hell you’ve been up to, and I’m not leaving here until you tell me the truth,” Dalton threatened.
Emer shoved against his chest futilely as she struggled to escape from his tantalising nearness. “What I’ve done since August ceased to be your concern when you left me on Grosse Ile then, and never once tried to contact me except to….”
She halted before she could say the words “bribe me.”
The Hungry Heart Fulfilled
Book 3 of The Hunger of the Heart Series
Shannon Farrell
Setting: Canada and Ireland 1848-1849
Word Count: 83,000
Rating: Sensual
