The Ground She Walks Upon

In the winderness of her soul, Ravenna knew she could marry only for love. Yet the violet-eyed granddaughter of a witch was in mysterious thrall to the master of County Lir. He was Niall, Lord Trevallyan, who wore a serpent ring, twin to her own, an aristocra who rejected her, then tried to make her his slave. She was a woman now, but unaware of their shared destinyand the risk of drowning in he green eyes of a man she'd learned to hate. He wanted more than her body: no less than her soul. The ravishing beauty who had turned Niall Trevallyan's blood to fire was destined o be his, by a secret curse he reviled and an ancient set of rings that would unite them forever. The lord who ruled the county was pledged to win her lovebut to do so, he had to set free the beauty he burned to possess... The Ground She Walks Upon Its mesmerizing story of passion and destiny is Meagan McKinney's finest yet, a breathtaking novel that will linger in the memory long after the last, passionate refrain. For hundreds of years, the Lords Trevellyan have ensured the prosperity of County Lir by following the dictates of an Irish curse placed upon their English ancestors when they were given Irish land. In 1828, a magical Celtic cross reveals the identity of his bride to Niall Trevellyn on the eve of his 20th birthday; she is an illegitimate orphan named Ravenna. Proclaiming himself a modern thinker, Trevellyan flaunts the curse and marries another, thus beginning a cycle of misfortune for himself The tempestuous romance between Niall Trevallyan, an English lord, and Ravenna, an illegitimate orphan he was supposed to marry. When Ravenna was born under the sign of a magic cross, Trevallyan dismissed the Celtic prophecy that he must marry such a woman or misfortunes will follow. Some 20 years of misfortunes later and now married to another, Trevallyan tries to correct his mistake