After the Rains

Growing up in Belfast at the height of the Troubles takes pluck and a touch of paranoia, especially when your father is an IRA assassin. But when your da is accused of shooting a clergyman, it’s time to make your escape.

For Maeve Quinn, fleeing home is the start of an odyssey that will find her, twenty years on, hunkered down in the Brazilian rainforest. With grit and determination she’s built a singular life for herself, as far from Belfast's bombs as she can be—but at forty Maeve knows she’s profoundly lonely.

A chance encounter with a wealthy American promises to change all that. Paul Moore's fertile mind and steady affection give Maeve something she desperately needs. But the deeper she’s pulled into Moore's exotic world, the more she suspects that her lover is not at all what he seems.

Maeve's father was loving toward her, yet capable of real violence. Has she unwittingly fallen in love with the same sort of man? Her very life may depend on the answer.