Across the Sea of Desire - Paperback

by Melody Sue Neff (Author)

Under a blazing desert sun, Caroline has built a quiet, careful life-safe, predictable, untouched by the chaos of the wider world. Then Patrick McNally walks into it.

Haunted by the political violence he fled in Ireland, Patrick carries secrets in eyes and a tenderness that awakens something fierce and undeniable in Caroline. Their love burns fast and deep-an unexpected oasis in two wounded lives.

But desire has a shadow.

Unbeknownst to Caroline, someone is watching. Waiting. A faceless obsession moves silently through the desert night, twisting longing into something far more dangerous. And when violence strikes, Caroline's world shatters in a single, irreversible act.

Grief carries her across the sea to Ireland-to the rugged cliffs and rain-soaked hills Patrick once called home. There, among a family bound by loyalty and silence, she meets Sean McNally-Patrick's brother. Brooding, passionate, and still entangled in the political turmoil Patrick tried to escape, Sean is everything she should resist... and everything her heart recognizes.

As Caroline is drawn into Ireland's simmering unrest-and into Sean's powerful, forbidden embrace-the past refuses to release her. Because the darkness she left behind in the desert has not forgotten her.

And it is coming.

Across oceans and ideologies, Caroline must confront obsession, loyalty, and the true cost of love. But when she becomes the target of a madman's final act, only one man will risk everything to save her.

A sweeping tale of passion and peril, Across the Sea of Desire explores how love can bloom in the harshest landscapes-and how some desires refuse to be buried.