Blindsided by Aquila Thorne

Dear Reader, To fully appreciate Blindsided, consider beginning your journey with the MacGallan Clan where it starts: Savior (Book 1), then continuing through Salvation and Sanctuary before diving into this latest chapter of their saga.

The MacGallan clan had long ago given up on Kane Murphy. At family gatherings, they’d watch him slouch in a corner, flask in hand, a perpetual five o’clock shadow darkening his jaw. Thirty-one years old when the drinking started in earnest, and now he’s still clinging to it and his bachelor existence with stubborn determination.

Then came the night of the Changing of the Guards ceremony. Declan’s hands trembled as he broke the seal on the envelope addressed in his dead father’s handwriting. “The family crypt,” he whispered, eyes meeting Kane’s across the room.

Hours later, standing among ancestral remains, their flashlight beams revealed something that would drag them all, willing or not, across the Atlantic to the misty shores of their ancestral homeland.

Kori Blake

Pressed a damp tissue to her face as the plane shuddered through another pocket of turbulence. The trembling aircraft wasn’t what had unleashed this flood of tears, however. Five years of marriage had dissolved in the seconds it took to open her neighbor’s text—”Thought you should see this”—and view the attached photos of her husband and sister tangled together on her own kitchen counter.

Now she is soaring somewhere over the Atlantic, bound for a friend’s small-town cottage on Ireland’s coast, desperate to find the woman she’d been before becoming the wife of a CEO.

But her recovery plan goes sideways when a red-eyed man across the aisle plops into the seat beside her. She can smell the booze on his breath when he says, “Whatever he did, he’s not worth it.”

Seven words. That’s all it took for her to feel comfort in the presence of a strange man. A drunk Irish one at that!

But once they part ways, both wonder whether they will meet again…