SYNOPSIS
Buccaneer
Beauty
is the story of Grace,
Grainne, O’Malley, the beautiful daughter of a powerful
Irish chieftain and a
conventional mother.
At the age of eleven,
Grainne cuts her hair and sneaks aboard her
father’s galley ship,
determined to follow a life at sea and to seek the
company of a handsome
Scottish gallowglass, Bruce Donnel. Grainne proves herself a budding
warrior when
Spanish marauders
invade her father’s vessel, but her parents have other plans
for her.
Though she proves an able
sailor, Grainne is
forced to marry Donal O’Flaherty, another powerful
chieftain. Though
enamored of Bruce Donnel, she nonetheless obeys her parents
and proves an able
helpmate to her violent and rash husband, continuing her own
adventures at sea
while raising children and supervising her husband’s
home. Her
heart, however, still belongs
to a handsome Scot who
she can never have.
Upon Donal’s death by
ambush, Grainne continues her
adventures along the
Irish coast and Europe, secretly battling England’s
growing power in her
country. Alternately
sleeping with the
devil or manipulating the British authorities to her own
ends, Grainne is
determined to save her family and people from the tyranny
imposed upon them by
England. To make her family stronger, she weds Richard
Bourke, one of the
most powerful men in the region, but she can never forget
Bruce Donnel and the
passion he incited within her soul. Richard proves Grainne’s most
stalwart
supporter and she his,
their minds and bodies uniting in an almost mystical
union. Together, they
faced the English with no fear—with only audacity and
boundless
courage. Still, the shadow of
a youthful gallowglass
intrudes on Grainne’s peace.
ABOUT THE
AUTHOR
Viola Russell is the
pen name for Susan Weaver Eble. A teacher by day, Viola Russell pens
her
novels at night and on
holidays. She adopted a pseudonym (her grandmother’s
name) so that her
students would not find her, but they, ever tech savvy,
discovered her
identity. She lives in New Orleans with her amazing husband Ben
and sweet
dog.
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