Publisher: Harlequin Trade Publishing, March 24, 2026

Format: ebook

Pages: 368

Rating: 4.5/5 stars

Summary (From Goodreads):

In the wake of the Great War, a young woman joins the Irish rebellion and risks everything for her country in this sweeping story of love, bravery and the relentless pursuit of freedom.

Ireland, 1918. In a world brutalized by the Great War and devastated by the Spanish flu, twenty-two-year-old Rynn Carmichael is suddenly pulled into the war of independence when Donal O’Reilly, the boy she has loved for most of her life, takes up gunrunning in support of the rebellion.

Raised in a small Irish village on the shores of Donegal Bay, Rynn is working as a nurse in a convalescent home for soldiers wounded in the Great War when she overhears a British officer gloating over the trap that has been set for Irish gunrunners bringing a boat full of smuggled arms ashore. Knowing that Donal must be involved, she rushes out at midnight to warn the incoming boat, only to find herself caught up in a terrifying and tragic series of events that take her from the glittering ballrooms of London to the narrow back alleys of Dublin as she and those she loves fight for their lives and their country.

My Review:

Thank you Harlequin Trade Publishing for the copy of this book.
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Read if you like: Irish history.
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The story follows Rynn, who learns that the man she loves might be caught by the British for gun running, and she runs to warn him. This drastically changes the course of her life and pulls her into the Irish independence movement post WW1.
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I loved Rynn and how she was willing to fight for those she loves. I loved the setting of post WW1 Ireland and the story of the people of Ireland fighting for sovereignty. I would definitely recommend this if you like historical fiction.