Dead Hand
by Valerie NiemanPublish: Jun 07, 2024Romantic SuspenseBook Overview
In this sequel to To the Bones, Lourana and Darrick have taken down Eamon Kavanagh, patriarch of the dreaded coal barons of Redbird, WV, but it seems that the family isn't done yet. The college-age son Rory has unexpectedly inherited not only the family's empire but the family itself: generations of Kavanagh men whose spirits persist and who have now taken up residence in Rory's mind and body.As Lourana and Darrick try to shape a life together, they are attacked by Eamon through Rory, and flee the life-sucking Kavanaghs across Appalachia and then, in desperation and hope, to Ireland. A reluctant Rory seeks the support of his late uncle Cormac in hopes of breaking free of this haunted legacy, even as he woos Lourana's daughter Dreama—Cormac's former girlfriend.
The Kavanagh family's belief that they are descended from Irish royalty is tested at a sacred site, with the assistance of a modern-day druid whose nature-based powers may not be all that he claims. There are old gods at work, and even older gods—it seems Darrick's psychic powers like the Kavanaghs' are rooted in ancient Ireland.
As Rory struggles against his brutal forebears, Darrick and Lourana find their love tested anew, until they are brought together in a terrifying battle between the forces of light and dark, creation and destruction.
