"I greet you a free soul, good friend! Sure, it's been a long time and ye're a joyful sight for these sore eyes. All the while I've been collection' me memories of me sixth century after the death of our Lord, Jesus, and the second hundred years of me children's enlightenment of God's Word."
The story itself was no let down. Set in sixth century Ireland, Riona takes the reader away to a different place and a different time. A time when men ruled and women bowed to their every whim. Well, not all women. Lady Riona of Dromin, for instance. Spirited, with a mind of her own, Riona over and over shows herself to be a match for any man. In a time when a woman's identity centered around having a husband and bearing children, Riona refuses to be forced into any such union. Of noble birth and with some land of her own, she's determined to make a life for herself and three children, orphaned when disease claimed the lives of their parents, she's taken under her wing. Enter Kieran of Gleannmara, the handsome warrior-king she's grown up with and loves as a brother. Kieran is determined to marry Riona, but she can't accept his temper and the male arrogance common among the men of her time. Nor can she accept his disdain for the God who is the very center of her life. She has refused Kieran before, and will do so again. When Kieran is accused of a murder she knows he didn't commit, she does all she can to help him find justice. As circumstances throw them together in a desperate flight to save Kieran's life, she realizes the love she feels for him is not the love of a sister for a brother. And that starts a whole new conflict for the lady. She learns things about herself she never realized, and sees just how the hand of God works in all things, good and bad.
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