"With brilliantly written characters and a story powerful enough to suit them, The Linnet is an all-round winner." –All About Romance, Desert Isle Keeper Review RITA® Award Finalist Though only twenty-one, Lady Maude Darnley is infamous for her sharp temper and even sharper tongue. Few know the anguish Maude conceals, and only the Irishman Ronan Fitzgerald dares to breach the wall she has built around her heart. A minstrel and a healer, Ronan has been sent to Aylsford by his dying master with no idea of what he will find there. He is bewitched by Maude's musical talent, and when he learns her secret, he is determined to free her from her demons. Neither expects the passion that springs between them, and when their love threatens to begin a new chapter in the bloody history between the Darnleys and Kirallens, they must find a way to defeat the ancient cycle of hatred before it destroys them and all that they hold dear.