An island castle in Cornwall, family secrets, a haunting historical legend, and a delicious kilt-wearing chef cook up an enchanting, heartwarming, and suspenseful new love story from the award-winning author of Compulsion and Lake of Destiny .
Emma Larsen’s mother may have been a best-selling romance novelist, but her own track record with relationships was a darker story. Emma has never believed in happily-ever-afters. But when her best-friend Treave proposes suddenly after her mother’s funeral, she agrees to accompany him to a wedding at his family’s island castle in Cornwall to try to see him as more than just a friend.
She falls in love with the wild, granite Cornish coast, a world rich with history, hauntings, and ancient superstitions. The failed romance of Tristan and Isolde hangs over the island and the lost abbey bell is said to ring when wishes will come true. As tragedy rocks the small community, though, it is family and courage that keep everyone together, and a handsome Scottish chef with a turbulent past and secrets he holds close is increasingly the one to whom Emma is drawn as danger swirls around them.
Caught between the two men and her own conscience, Emma begins to discover that the roots of childhood fears run deep. And sometimes, the people we think we know the best are the ones we can’t see for who they are.
REVIEW
I absolutely jumped at the chance to read the second book of the Celtic Legends series. I read the first book a few months ago, well I should say devoured it.
Just like the first book, it is a clean romance so it doesn’t get too steamy.
Brando from the first book makes a return and finally gets his own love story which made me sooooo happy! Emma is an absolutely amazing lead character. I seriously loved this book, probably more than the first one. I absolutely cannot wait to read the next one!
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