Blood Lines
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Publisher Description
Kerry Laraghy is the girl with everything. The daughter of a lovely, loving Irish country home, she is destined to succeed her father as a trainer of world-class racehorses. But Kerry doesn't want Ireland or horses: she wants Paris, Africa and a man who can take her far away from her inheritance.
Brandon Lawrence, heir himself to a multinational corporation, is a loving father, husband of a glamorous wife, wealthy and secure. But under the smooth surface Brandon is secretly at war with himself.
When they meet, the consequences are devastating for them both, and for everyone they love, for decades to come.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
A rebellious daughter sows her wild oats before coming home to feed them to her horses in this heavy-handed debut from Ryan, a journalist with Dublin's Evening Herald. The novel, which spans from 1968 to the 1990s, opens in Ireland as Kerry Laraghy, the spoiled red-haired heiress of Ashamber, her family's 900-acre horse farm, is celebrating her 18th birthday. She had promised her father, Eamonn, that she would remain at Ashamber and learn to train thoroughbreds. Yearning to experience the '60s, however, Kerry rebels and heads to Paris where her twin brother, a brooding fashion designer, lives. But shortly after arriving in the City of Lights, she meets and very quickly marries Darragh de Bruin, an Irish street musician (which causes her outraged da to disinherit her). They move to Senegal to do volunteer work, but the marriage collapses. Pregnant and miserable, Kerry goes to New York where, two months after the birth of her son, Killian, Kerry learns that her parents have been attacked by the Irish Republican Army. She rushes back to Ireland, hoping to see them alive-but arrives too late. Although her father has left her penniless, his will stipulates that she can inherit the house, the estate and a valuable horse, Blue Moon, on the condition that the farm shows an annual profit. Kerry accepts her father's challenge and receives help from a wealthy, married admirer and her dead father's mistress. Can Kerry make the family farm successful, find true love and become a better mother? In answering these and other questions, this mediocre soap opera offers a melodramatic plot, a plodding pace and few surprises.
