The Eternal Flame (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781764762823)

The emotional saga that began in The Irish Flame continues...

One gold ring. Two graves. A love that defied the dark.

Sienna is a woman of logic, more comfortable with the sterile certainty of her academic life in Adelaide than the unpredictable whims of fate. Yet, the pull of a trunk of love letters from 1959 proved impossible to resist, dragging her 17,000 kilometres across the globe to the mist-shrouded valley of Beag, Ireland. She didn't travel across the world just to unearth ancestral history; she came for Julius Kelly-the rugged local baker who has quickly become her absolute anchor.

Julius's hands hold more than the secrets of his craft; they possess the quiet power to mend a sixty-year-old family wound. As the pair prepare for a wedding meant to unite their legacies and triumph over the silence of the past, their devotion burns with an incandescent heat. They are madly, deeply, and irrevocably in love. But in Beag, the joyous peal of wedding bells is rarely heard without the sombre toll of a funeral close behind.

Just as a secret heartbeat begins to pulse within Sienna, promising the dawn of a new generation, the Irish skies turn violent. With a fragile new life growing inside her and the beloved elders of the valley slowly fading into the mist, Sienna is caught in a tempest of devastating grief and terrifying hope. As torrential rains engulf the valley and a catastrophic flood threatens their home, she must find the strength to face both the rhythmic passing of the old world and the heart-stopping labour of bringing a new one into the light.

From the velvet warmth of their wedding night to the cold silt of a shattered bridge, Sienna will learn that the 'Eternal Flame' isn't a guaranteed gift-it is a fierce, daily choice. A choice to love when the waters rise, to stay when the horizon is broken, and to find hope in the final embers of the dark.