Irish Hearts - Caress Across the Ocean

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Summary: A superbly crafted novel of romance and responsibility.
Review: In Irish Hearts the reader is treated to a tour of Colleen Keating's personal world as she sojourns towards new beginnings and refuses to allow her neglectful husband to hold her back from life's adventures. Colleen is a pioneer styled woman living in contemporary American who travels throughout England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland in search of her ancestral roots -- and finding more than she expected. Entangled within a loveless marriage, we empathize with her temptations when she encounters Ciaran Kelly, a handsome Irishman. Both of these star-crossed lovers are bound by commitments and experience the tug of hearts and distress of souls as the irrevocably find their mutual affections requited, yet forbidden. Irish Hearts is a superbly crafted novel of romance and responsibility, of unexpected opportunity and socially required sacrifice.

Rating:
Summary: A superbly crafted novel of romance and responsibility.
Review: In Irish Hearts the reader is treated to a tour of Colleen Keating's personal world as she sojourns towards new beginnings and refuses to allow her neglectful husband to hold her back from life's adventures. Colleen is a pioneer styled woman living in contemporary American who travels throughout England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland in search of her ancestral roots -- and finding more than she expected. Entangled within a loveless marriage, we empathize with her temptations when she encounters Ciaran Kelly, a handsome Irishman. Both of these star-crossed lovers are bound by commitments and experience the tug of hearts and distress of souls as the irrevocably find their mutual affections requited, yet forbidden. Irish Hearts is a superbly crafted novel of romance and responsibility, of unexpected opportunity and socially required sacrifice.

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Summary: Good job, Claudia!!!
Review: Since I personally know the author who is a fellow dispatcher at another agency and am good friends with the real-life "George," I already knew some of the trip that inspired the book. As a writer myself, I must say that this book is extremely well written. Although I don't fancy romance novels, I did like this, although the steamy scenes were too explicit for me and I didn't like the adulterous theme. But over all, it was a good book. Good debut, Claudia! I also must add that Claudia Thomas is a wonderful woman. She recently served as a critical incident debriefer at the site of the WTC attacks, counselling emergency workers. She took an entire month off from her job to do this. What an awesome lady!

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Summary: It makes you feel as if your part of the story
Review: Well done. Haven,t read a romance in years. So glad I chose this one. The characters were so real Ifelt as though I was part of the story. I hope there is more to come from this author. She has a true feeling of life. As they say on Broadway,"author,author."