Lovely young Eileen Killdane came to Ireland from America expecting the green enchanted isle her father had told her of. But this was Ireland in the 1840s, and a curse was on the land--a ravaging famine that plunged the countryside into cruel misery, bitter hatred, and bloody violence.
Eileen thought to find safety in Killdane Castle, ancient home of her ancestors and now her legacy. Instead she found peril in the passionate arms of the swashbuckling rebel who tried to claim her heart...in the mocking courtesy and mysterious designs of the handsome, arrogant aristocrat who tried to claim her birthright...and in her own growing, fear-filled knowledge that it was here in this place so beautiful and so haunted that she would find her destiny, for good or for ill...