Blindsided

By Aquila Thorne

Deal Ends: Thu 15th October

Kane MurphyThe MacGallan clan had long ago given up on Kane Murphy.At family gatherings, he'd be the one slouched in the corner, a flask hidden in his jacket pocket and a perpetual five o'clock shadow darkening his jaw. At thirty-one, grief had driven him to the bottle. Years later, alcohol had become the only thing he trusted more than people.Then came the Changing of the Guards ceremony.As Declan broke the seal on an envelope written in their late father's hand, everything changed.A final clue hidden in the MacGallan family crypt sends Kane and his siblings across the Atlantic to Ireland, where long-buried family secrets await—and where Kane discovers that the past isn't quite finished with him.Kori BlakeFive years of marriage ended in the seconds it took Kori Blake to open a text from her neighbor."Thought you should see this."The attached photos showed her husband tangled up with her own sister on her kitchen counter.Heartbroken and desperate to escape the life she'd built around a cheating CEO, Kori boards the first flight to Ireland, hoping a few weeks in a friend's seaside cottage will help her remember who she was before she became someone else's wife.Her recovery plan takes an unexpected turn when a brooding Irish stranger with whiskey on his breath drops into the empty seat beside her."Whatever he did, he wasn't worth it."Seven simple words.That's all it takes for Kori to find comfort in a man she knows nothing about.When they part ways, they assume they'll never see each other again.They're wrong.Because fate—and one dead man's final secret—has other plans.