God of Summer Historical Irish Fiction, Women's Fantasy, Folklore
The Wild Rose Pess
Sept 12, 2022
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Angus McCraggan sacrificed his life to break the Celtic curse laid upon his people in the Bronze Age. He failed. Millennia later, he returns to modern Ireland to find his people have become feral, vengeful shadows. With his hollow hill now a tourist attraction, he uses his power to keep his past hidden.
Until an American calls him out…
Since a banshee attacked her as a teen, Erin De Santos has been tormented by dreams of a boy she's never met. Armed with a new identity, she returns to the Emerald Isle determined to face her nightmare. But her discovery turns fatal.
When the banshee strikes again, Angus surrenders his heart—and his hope of freeing his people—to save her. With his life now hers and his curse descending, Erin must make a terrible choice: kill her savior or share his doom.
Review by Linda Tonis
Member of the Paranormal Romance Guild Review Team
Erin DeSantos has returned to Ireland where she grew up and where a tragic event changed her life. At the age of fourteen Erin and her father were in a car accident, an accident she survived and cost her father his life. Her mother didn’t waste time in returning to America remarrying and leaving Erin grieving her father’s death alone. For years she felt that something happened while her father and her were drowning, something that she can’t remember but leaves her feeling that she was responsible. Now going by Liz, she has returned to find answers only she would find more questions.
Visiting a tourist attraction, she immediately recognizes the tour-guide Angus McCraggan as a god leaving him to wonder how she knows who he really is. McCraggan an ancient immortal named OenghusOg, is from the Bronze Age. Angus was imprisoned for nearly three thousand years and seven years ago was returned to fulfill his destiny to sire as many new children as possible for his people’s future.
Angus’ wife lost the light and has become a monster the very monster responsible for the death of Erin’s father and who has now set her sights on Erin. His wife is the O’Neill banshee destroying all the O’Neill’s leaving Erin as the sole survivor. Her true name is Maureen Erin Elizabeth O’Neill, and she knew that banshee was responsible for the accident, but no one would believe her. She wants closure and only remembering the past would give her that.
When Caer, the banshee attacks Erin leaving her dead it is Angus who finds her and gives her life by giving her his heart. By doing that he marries her and will only love her for eternity, unfortunately she would have to accept him, and she does not seem to. He is bound to Erin for eternity but there are enemies, past and present, who will stand in the way of a future between the two.
Angus has always felt like he failed his people but siring children with women he doesn’t care for or know is something he is having trouble with, but Erin’s life is in danger if he doesn’t. He must get Erin to leave and must accept his responsibility to his people who he failed before.
This was a very interesting book with wonderful characters. There are secrets, surprises and love that may never get a chance. I did find the book to be very confusing in the beginning but then everything came together leading to an amazing ending.