Lady Reid's Legacy: The Dunmara Series - Book 3

by Jean Grainger

Dunmara Estate is in grave peril.
On Ireland's wild West Coast, a ruthless developer has this ancient place in his sights, and those fighting to save it are losing ground with every passing day. The answer to Dunmara's survival is hiding in plain sight. But first, someone has to see it.
Orla Daly is unravelling. Her battle against the predatory Larry Kennedy is consuming her, and her personal life is closing in from every side. It feels like secrets and lies are all she gets from the people she trusted most.
Then there's Donnacha O'Reilly — brilliant, devoted, everything she should want. So why can't she let him in?
In 1846, a young bride arrives at Dunmara as the Great Famine tightens its grip on Ireland. Evelyne Reid quickly learns that her marriage is nothing more than a debt repaid, and that her husband Lord Dunmara is as cold and merciless as the hunger stalking his tenants. Powerless by law, Evelyne must choose between obedience and her conscience.
But Evelyne makes a decision in 1846 that will echo across two centuries.
The question is whether Orla will hear it — before it's too late.

Kindle Edition

Expected publication September 30, 2026

About the author

Jean Grainger was born in Cork, Ireland. She has been a tour guide of her beloved home country, a teacher, a university lecturer and a playwright. She began writing fiction at the suggestion of her clients on tours, many of whom were sure all the stories she told them would make for a great book. Her first book, The Tour, has become a Number 1 bestseller on Amazon. It tells the story of a disparate group of American visitors to Ireland, who, along with their Irish tour guide have a life changing experience in the magical Emerald Isle.
Her second book, So Much Owed, is a family saga set during the Second World War. The story centres on the Buckley family of West Cork and how their lives are pulled in different directions as they become embroiled in the war. It is a sweeping family saga of intrigue and romance against the background of occupied Europe.
In her third novel, Shadow of a Century, she tells a tale of a battered old flag found in New York in 2016, a century after it was used during the Easter Rising, when Ireland made her final bid for freedom from Great Britain. This tells the story of a journalist who uncovers a story, one with much more to it than a flag.
Her fourth novel, due out in Spring 2016, Under Heaven’s Shining Stars, is set in the 1970s in Cork, Ireland and is a novel about friendship. Three boys, Liam, Patrick and Hugo, though from very different backgrounds are united in a deep but often times challenging friendship. As their lives progress, only by staying strong, can they prevail. Or fail.
Her novella, Letters of Freedom, tells the story of Carmel, stuck in a pointless marriage, when a figure from her past emerges and changes everything with a ‘like’ on Facebook. This quick read will touch your heart.
She lives in Cork with her husband and her two youngest children. The older two come home occasionally with laundry and to raid the fridge.

Reviews

[Dan Rogers · Rating 5 out of 5]

I received an advance reader copy of this book in exchange for an honest review. In this third installment of The Dunmara Series you will meet some rather vile individuals as your heart goes out to the women who have to put up with them. Grainger has such an easy way of writing that you can't help but become fully invested in the comings and goings of Dunmara and its full cast of interesting characters. I have read every book she has written and am amazed at how she is able to maintain the high quality level of all her stories. I've said it before and will say it again here, this is another series that I sincerely hope someone will notice and make into a multi-episode television series.