{"product_id":"across-the-sea-of-desire-melody-sue-neff-9798994937716","title":"Across the Sea of Desire","description":"\u003cp\u003eUnder a blazing desert sun, Caroline has built a quiet, careful life-safe, predictable, untouched by the chaos of the wider world. Then Patrick McNally walks into it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHaunted by the political violence he fled in Ireland, Patrick carries secrets in eyes and a tenderness that awakens something fierce and undeniable in Caroline. Their love burns fast and deep-an unexpected oasis in two wounded lives.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut desire has a shadow.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eUnbeknownst to Caroline, someone is watching. Waiting. A faceless obsession moves silently through the desert night, twisting longing into something far more dangerous. And when violence strikes, Caroline's world shatters in a single, irreversible act.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGrief carries her across the sea to Ireland-to the rugged cliffs and rain-soaked hills Patrick once called home. There, among a family bound by loyalty and silence, she meets Sean McNally-Patrick's brother. Brooding, passionate, and still entangled in the political turmoil Patrick tried to escape, Sean is everything she should resist... and everything her heart recognizes.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs Caroline is drawn into Ireland's simmering unrest-and into Sean's powerful, forbidden embrace-the past refuses to release her. Because the darkness she left behind in the desert has not forgotten her.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd it is coming.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcross oceans and ideologies, Caroline must confront obsession, loyalty, and the true cost of love. But when she becomes the target of a madman's final act, only one man will risk everything to save her.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA sweeping tale of passion and peril, \u003ci\u003eAcross the Sea of Desire\u003c\/i\u003e explores how love can bloom in the harshest landscapes-and how some desires refuse to be buried.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Melody Sue Neff\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798994937716\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Fallon \u0026amp; Victoria Publishing\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/19\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 406\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.19lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.90d","brand":"Melody Sue Neff","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48453284593919,"sku":"9798994937716","price":14.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_b759ec55-dfe7-400a-a09a-cf6eb417e6fd.jpg?v=1777299324","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/across-the-sea-of-desire-melody-sue-neff-9798994937716","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}