Book excerpt: An Irish warrior who craves vengeance . . . After losing the woman he loved, Trahern MacEgan will stop at nothing to avenge her death. His body is honed for battle, his soul tortured—and he has sworn never to love again. A woman who has endured suffering . . . Morren Ó Reilly sacrificed herself for her sister’s sake, but she holds her head high even as she recoils from a man’s touch. When Trahern saves her life, their tentative friendship begins to heal the loneliness inside. A passionate redemption Can Morren be the light to Trahern’s darkness and be made whole again by her surrender?