The Italian Pearl & The Irish Peasant
This
is a story taken from the lineage of the O'Malley family in "The Secrets
of Nine Irish Sons".
Around
300 B.C., a handsome Roman general, nephew of the reigning Caesar, is sent off
to battle pirates and bring home treasure for the glory of Rome. Along the way,
he comes across an extremely unusual Irish ship crewed by both male and female
pirates, a bad omen as far as his crew is concerned . . . and an unlikely source
of any kind of treasure. Nonetheless, the general is instantly smitten by the
ship’s beautiful captain and orders his reluctant crew to pursue the strange
vessel. Despite disaster, his quest continues until the general is taken
prisoner by an unfriendly King. When the King turns him over to an ugly peasant
woman, our hero continues to pine for his lost love. Both prisoner and
caretaker live in fantasy worlds where they yearn for what they cannot have
until a shocking discovery changes everything for both of them. ©Laura Joyce Moriarty
The Death of Reiley Freeze
Reiley Freeze was an extremely
heroic, kind, and popular character with readers in the Trilogy, The Secrets
of Nine Irish Sons. His instant charisma was evident with everyone he knew.
He was fascinating, and yet, he never met very many people---he was always on
the move.
Reiley was
the envy of every man who ever met him including his own brother. He didn’t
understand why men disliked him because he didn’t realize that he made choices
with a power that many men lacked---the internal fortitude to set aside his own
desires for the sake of others. He stayed completely loyal to his goals---to
provide a permanent life of security for the generations who would follow his
own. He made every decision as closely aligned with the world’s most valued and
yet difficult necessity---the one that says good men must conquer the evil ones
while not becoming stained with sin and guilt--- the only way for a man to
become a real hero.
Even more unlikely, the men who disliked him out
of jealousy, principally because he was so admired by women, couldn’t see the
truth. They saw his charm, but yet, he held no pretense or swagger. The reason
women longed for him was because of his way---his way with words---his way with
a smile---his way with a helping hand, and most importantly, his way with his
goodness. ©Laura Joyce Moriarty
Brigid's Dilemma
After Rosemary O’Connor finds her abusive husband sneaking into her
young daughter’s bedroom, she spends the next few years physically fighting him
off to protect her beautiful Brigid. In the end, Rosemary saves her from her
father, but is unable to shield Brigid from a ravaging stranger, a man nearly
twice her age, who uses the young girl’s desperate desire for love to seduce
her.
Once she learns her daughter is pregnant, as if tempting fate,
Rosemary suffers a final altercation. She sends Brigid away while secretly
condemning her husband to prison.
Rosemary’s scheme was to save Brigid from a
pitiless society that oppressed unwed mothers during the early days of the
1900s. But she frightens her in the process.
As a result, vestiges of her fear and caution
keeps her desire for a husband perpetually fettered---and then each time she is
ready to fall in love, fate intervenes. ©Laura Joyce Moriarty
The Mission of Alexis Dering
Alexis Dering was born to a
wealthy, but brutally sinister British family in Devonshire, England. Yet, he
remained kind, curious, and despite his baneful opinion of himself..
The shy boy meets an unlikely
friend, a young Irishman who feels destined to become a missionary in a foreign
land as soon as he can finish his education and become an ordained priest.
Alexis loves his friend but continually resists to be seduced into his chosen
life as a priest. Instead, he relentlessly tempt Fitz into a safe, mutually
beneficial life of privilege and comfort. Their unexplainable
intransigence strange effect has a
lasting effect on each of them with remarkably prophetic outcomes. ©Laura Joyce Moriarty
