The hero Patrick has many chances to make Kitty his wife, but doesn't realize his feelings until she's married to someone else. After that husband dies, he could marry her again, but sets sail for America instead. The heroine, idiot that she was through this entire ulcer-inducing epic, trots off to America to find him, only to be thought a mulatto and sold into slavery .

Kitty is rescued by Charles, the man who is to become her next husband. The sad part for the reader is that you actually WANT the heroine to stay with Charles and to forget about Patrick. Charles is good looking, treats Kitty like a queen, etc. But no, Henley is intent upon returning Kitty to Patrick, the sorriest excuse for a hero Ms. Virginia's ever written.

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Though famine holds her beloved Ireland in its deadly grip, young, innocent Kitty Rooney is a survivor. An exotic gypsy lass with cascading curls of ebony silk and eyes of brown velvet, Kitty vows that someday, somehow, the riches of the earth will be laid at her feet. Then Patrick O'Reilly walks into her life, his eyes burning hungrily over her body, his lips promising her the world, making a woman of her in one sweet, scorching night....

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Historical romance, taking place in the Medieval period.

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With his towering wealth and devastating charm, O'Reilly offers Kitty her dream...but at too high a price. And when Kitty flees, her trust in him shattered, she cannot erase the memory of Patrick's bold strength, his knowing touch...and she knows that she can never know true happiness--until she is once again in the arms of the reckless Irishman who first loved her as a woman....

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