That guide is being added to the reprinted edition, which comes out in October 2008. Some people complained about the Irish names and such, and, in response, I wrote up a guide to the Irish Gaelic pronunciation in the story and emailed it to hundreds of readers. It would be a break in point of view to translate those conversations into English the reader isn’t meant to understand them. There are sections in which Jamie, who doesn’t speak Gaelic, is hearing BrÃghid and her brothers Fionn and Ruaidhrà speak. However, I don’t translate everything that’s in the story. He eventually sat down with me and did the translations, teaching me bits and pieces about Irish Gaelic as we went along. I was lucky that Mick Bolger, the lead singer for Colcannon, lived only an hour away. That meant working with someone who spoke fluent Irish Gaelic. I decided early on to make the Irish parts of the story authentically Irish and not stereotypically Irish. My brother lived in Dublin for two years and Celtic music makes up a huge percentage of my playlists. This story gave me a chance to research Ireland extensively, a self-indulgent pursuit in some respects as our family has a strong Irish heritage. It had very prominent secondary characters, who had their own romance, and took us out of Colonial America for the first and only time so far. But until it was cut, I loved this story. However, those lost pages stick in my mind. And then when it was done, it so exceeded the page limit that 100 pages had to be cut, dramatically (in my opinion) altering the book.įor some people, Carnal Gift is their favorite of the Kenleigh/Blakewell Trilogy. For Sweet Release, I had seven years to get it right. It was my second novel, and like many authors I found the second novel much more difficult to write than the first. Author’s Notes Carnal GiftĬarnal Gift was my heartbreaker. And as the long hours of the night passed by, as her senses ignited at the heat of their naked flesh, she made a startling discovery: Sometimes the line between hate and love can be dangerously thin. His tender touch calmed her fears while he swore he would protect her by only pretending to claim her. Possessing nothing but her innocence and her fierce Irish pride, she had no choice but to comply.īut the handsome man she faced in the darkened bedchamber was not at all the monster she expected. Her body and her virginity were to be offered up to a stranger in exchange for her brother’s life. With those harsh words, the hated Sasanach earl decided Bríghid’s fate. “I expect you to show my friend just how grateful you are.
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