Since the first of the year, I have written two stories in which Regency era Ireland plays a role. The first of those was a novella entitled “Lord Fearghal’s English Bride,” which was part of the Regency Summer Weddings Anthology.
Lord Fearghal’s English Bride
HERS WAS A CONVENIENT ARRANGEMENT
Lady Claire Waterstone has spent more years out of England than she has enjoying English society. In fact, she feels very odd in making her Come Out with girls four to five years her junior. Claire has never known a “home” of her own. And while several gentlemen are eager to claim her hand, she knows their ardor has more to do with the size of her dowry than true affection. Then she encounters Lord Ainmire Fearghal, an impoverished Irish earl, whose tales of how he sees his land creates in her a desire to share it with him. Claire, therefore, abandons decorum and proposes to Lord Fearghal. However, his roguish charm soon has her wishing for more than a marriage of convenience.
HE BARGAINED FOR HER FORTUNE, NOT HER HEART
Fearghal has only one purpose in marrying Lady Claire: Save his estate. Melhman Manor reeks from inherited debt, and Fearghal requires a wealthy wife immediately. Originally, he thought to leave Claire in London, but his wife soon puts an end to those thoughts, but when she suggests Ainmire’s cousin could be working against Ainmire’s efforts to save his land, Fearghal and Lady Claire strike a different type of bargain – one based in trust and loyalty and the beginnings of love
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In Taming Lord Truist, the heroine’s parents, though having lived in England for many years, also had an estate in Ireland, where Lady Eleanor Truist retreats without telling her husband where she is going. I shan’t explain the necessity of her action, for that is a major plot point, but Eleanor chooses to return to an area close to Clogheen and Tubrid.
Clogheen lies in the Galtee-Vee Valley with the Galtee Mountains to the north and the Knockmealdowns in close proximity to the south. The River Tar runs through the village. The first substantial records of the village date from the Cromwellian period, but the village did not come to note until the 18th and 19th centuries. It then became a local centre of trade and commerce. The village takes its modern form from the 19th century with a wide area that was formerly the Market Square (and still named so) and a number of townhouses in the Georgian style. Cloghee sets about 50 miles from Cork City.
Tubrid or Tubbrid was formerly a civil and ecclesiastical parish situated between the towns of Cahir and Clogheen in County Tipperary, Ireland. A cluster of architectural remains at the old settlement still known as Tubrid includes an ancient cemetery and two ruined churches of regional historical significance.
According to Power, the parish derives its name from the well (Tobraid Chiaráin) at which St. Declan (“Declan” is the surname for two of the characters in the book) baptised a local infant named Ciaran, who in time became a noted holy figure. It was said of Ciarán (Ciaran Mac Eochaidh) that he founded a monastery in the locality and that:
He worked many miracles and holy signs and this is the name of his monastery Tiprut [Tubrid] and this is where it is:–in the western part of the Decies in Ui Faithe between Slieve Grot (Galtee) and Sieve Cua and it is within the bishopric of Declan.
This holy well near the site, was in previous times a place of pilgrimage. St. Ciaran is remembered in the name of the church at Ballylooby. There was also, until recent times, an annual mass celebrated at this location. To the front of the site is the former local schoolhouse which was completed soon after the construction of St. John’s and is in danger of falling into a dilapidated condition. [That schoolhouse has its fictional beginning in this story.]
Taming Lord Truist: Book 2 of the Strong Regency Women Duo
“The very first moment I beheld him, my heart was irrecoverably gone.” – Jane Austen
Miss Eleanor Wilder has admired Lord Augustus Truist since she was a young girl. He had once protected her from an older boy who had meant to strike her. Now, she requires his protection again: This time, it is from her guardian, a cousin who means to marry Eleanor off to a man more that twice Ella’s age in order to keep Eleanor’s fortune in the family. As she will soon be one and twenty, Eleanor must convince Lord Truist to marry her himself, rather than see all her fortune go to a ne’er-do-well.
Lord Truist must save his family from disgrace and a touch of poverty by marrying an heiress of whom his mother approves, but he finds repugnant. However, when Miss Wilder offers him her fortune with no strings attached—a marriage of convenience—how can he refuse? As his countess, the lady would have the protection she required, and he would have the freedom to enjoy his long-time mistress, Miss Sarah Darling, without complaints.
How was he to know that the new Lady Truist not only loved him but was quite perfect in ways he did not realize he required?
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Short Excerpt:
There was a soft tap on the door of her hotel room in Cork. Yet, Eleanor did not open it immediately. Instead, she said, “Yes?”
“It’s Sean Declan, Mrs. Banks. Me uncle in London sent word to meet you here.”
Eleanor released the lock and opened the door to the man. “Thank you for coming.”
“My condolences regardin’ the passin’ of yer father. Many of us be surprised to learn of yer loss. Aidan Wilder be a good man.”
Eleanor nodded her gratitude. “I pray you may see me safely to my father’s former house near Tubrid.”
“This time of year will be wetter than we might like. By horse be best. Easier than the Old Cork Road going towards the west.”
“I had considered such would be true,” she admitted.
“It be easier than coming in at Waterford where it be more mountainous, and, perhaps even an early snow.”
“I pray you may return for supplies for those upon my father’s estate. I would have you choose items now, but my fortune will only go so far, and I wish to address the more critical needs first.”
Remarkably, Mr. Declan smiled. “You’ll do well, Mrs. Banks. I be confident those on Wilder land will be glad for your coming. Dare I ask of Mr. Banks?”
“You may not,” she said with a lift of her chin in challenge.
“Yer business, ma’am,” Mr. Declan said with a nod of acceptance. “Might’n we depart on Monday morning? Expectin’ fair weather for the next few days, but I must arrange for the horses and perhaps a mule to tote your trunks.”
They discussed the specifics of their journey. Then Mr. Declan left her for the evening. Closing the door behind the man, she said with tears forming in her eyes, “I did not think it would be done so quickly, August. However, how shall I be done with how much I love you?”
If you have not yet read Loving Lord Lindmore: Book 1 of the Strong Regency Women Duo grab yourself a copy while you may. It is only $0.99 until August 12, 2024.
LADY CORA TAKES SOCIETY BY STORM . . .
Lady Cora Midland, a highly-spirited country beauty, offers no pretensions, which wins many admirers, despite her lack of knowledge on how to manage the beau monde. However, Matthew Harrington believes she is taking advantage of his elderly grandmother, and he means to put a stop to the girl.
LORD MATTHEW LINDMORE IS IN DENIAL . . .
Lindmore reluctantly assists his grandmother in bringing Lady Cora out in Society. Yet, what appeared to be a daunting task becomes a transformation the earl does not expect. He finds the woman as delightful, as do others in the haut ton. Yet…
When Lady Cora is on the the verge of marrying another, Lindmore fears time will expire before he can speak his own proposal.
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