The Last Bride in Ballymuir

May your troubles be less Your blessings be more. And nothing but happiness Come through your door.

He was so stark and male and beautiful that she hungered for him. Physically, to be sure. But also from someplace even more intimate, someplace where heart and soul melded into a yearning so strong, that she wanted to weep from it.

You're a thousand small wonders, Kylie, love, adding up to one grand miracle.

It is better to exist unknow to the law.--Irish Proverb

In time, she eased into sleep, and her head rested against the plane of his shoulder. He held her and wondered that such a simple intimacy between a man and woman could mean so much.

What is in the marrow is hard to take out of the bone.--Irish Proverb

There's trouble in every house, and some in the street.--Irish Proverb

Relax in your own home, Kylie. It's one of the few places on earth you're free to be as you really are.

The three things Aristotle couldn’t understand: the work of the bees, the coming and going of the tide, and the mind of a woman. —Irish Triad

freedom. One night when a hard-fought “no” had instead made her unable to accept a man’s touch. Even a man she cared for very deeply. She had let Michael believe that her emotional collapse

The homeland might be lacking snakes, but it held its share of venom.