The Irish Tempest

Ireland 1911: After seven centuries of unyielding oppression there is a tempest rising a national yearning for Irish independence. It threatens to sweep away all that is precious to the very privileged ORourke and de la Roche families. Seismic changes are but a whisper away.What begins as a squabbling friendship between the wastrel Courtland ORourke and the defiant mischief-making Lacey de la Roche matures into a deeply passionate tempestuous love fraught with secrets of lethal consequences and sins of omission.In this debut historical novel The Irish Tempest beckons the reader into a world where landowner and tenant farmer the well-off and the working-class are chafing under the chokehold of British domination. Pulled apart by personal and social conflicts Court and Lacey experience the world from perspectives both transformative and destructive. Court compelled to accept a commission in the British army initiates a disastrous affair with rippling aftershocks. Lacey fueled by the arrogance of adolescence is beguiled by a charismatic but sociopathic horse trainer.The Irish Tempest thrusts the reader into the anguish of the 1916 Easter Rising and beyond as Ireland seethes on the cusp of revolution. Deftly paced with vividly drawn characters The Irish Tempest embraces historical elements while preserving the essence of evocative storytelling.