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“Sweet Skye, let me love you. Let me adore the perfection of your beautiful body. For tonight at least, you belong to me!”

He lowered his head, and with his hot tongue began an encirclement of her nipple. Around and around and around until she began to whimper deep within her throat, and he took the entire nipple in his mouth, sending a knife-sharp pulse of rapture through her body.

Taking one of her slender feet in his hands, he kissed it, then began licking it sensuosly. His hungry mouth kissed, his tongue lapped tenderly in the hollows of her ankle, and when he reached her knee he began again with the other foot. Pulling himself back up level with her, he licked her chest and his tongue slid easily over her torso, not missing an inch of skin as he moved along.

“Adam! Stop! You will drive me mad!” Skye gasped.

“Then we shall be mad together, sweet Skye,” he said, and lowered his head once more, this time his tongue snaking out to touch her in her most sensitive place …

By Bertrice Small:

THE KADIN

LOVE WILD AND FAIR

ADORA

UNCONQUERED

BELOVED

ENCHANTRESS MINE

BLAZE WYNDHAM

THE SPITFIRE

A MOMENT IN TIME

TO LOVE AGAIN

LOVE, REMEMBER ME

THE LOVE SLAVE

HELLION

BETRAYED

DECEIVED

THE INNOCENT

A MEMORY OF LOVE

THE DUCHESS

THE DRAGON LORD’S DAUGHTERS

PRIVATE PLEASURES

FORBIDDEN PLEASURE

SUDDEN PLEASURES

The O’Malley Saga

SKYE O’MALLEY

ALL THE SWEET TOMORROWS

A LOVE FOR ALL TIME

THIS HEART OF MINE

LOST LOVE FOUND

WILD JASMINE

Skye’s Legacy

DARLING JASMINE

BEDAZZLED

BESIEGED

INTRIGUED

JUST BEYOND TOMORROW

VIXENS

The Friarsgate Inheritance

ROSEMUND

UNTIL YOU

PHILIPPA

THE LAST HEIRESS

The World of Hetar

LARA

A DISTANT TOMORROW

THE TWILIGHT LORD

THE SORCERESS OF BELMAIR

THE SHADOW QUEEN

Copyright © 1984 by Bertrice Small

All rights reserved.

Published in the United States by Ballantine Books, an imprint of The Random House Publishing Group, a division of Random House, Inc., New York, and simultaneously in Canada by Random House of Canada Limited, Toronto.

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eISBN: 978-0-307-79481-9

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v3.1

This book is dedicated with much love and great
respect to the first hero I ever had, my father,
David Roger Williams. You’re still my hero,
Daddy!

Contents

The world has laid low,
and the wind
blows away like ashes
Alexander, Caesar, and all who were
in their trust;

Grass-grown is Tara,
and see Troy now how it is—
And the English themselves,
perhaps they too
will pass!

—Anonymous Irish poem, 17th or 18th century

The Players

THE O’MALLEYS OF INNISFANA ISLAND, IRELAND

SKYE O’MALLEY
known as the O’Malley, chief of her clan
SEAMUS O’MALLEY
her elderly uncle, Bishop of Mid-Connaught
ANNE O’MALLEY
Skye’s widowed stepmother
EIBHLIN O’MALLEY
Skye’s elder sister, a nun and a doctor
MOIRE, PEIGI, BRIDE, AND SINE
Skye’s other sisters, all older
MICHAEL O’MALLEY
Skye’s full brother, a priest
BRIAN, SHANE, SHAMUS, AND CONN
Anne’s sons, Skye’s half-brothers

THE HUSBANDS OF SKYE O’MALLEY

DOM O’FLAHERTY
her first, the Master of Ballyhennessey
KHALID EL BEY
her second, known as “the
(
Diego Indio Goya de Fuentes
)
Great Whoremaster of Algiers,” a Spaniard turned Moslem
LORD GEOFFREY
her third, the Earl of
SOUTHWOOD
Lynmouth, known as the “Angel Earl”
LORD NIALL BURKE
her fourth, and Skye’s first love

THE CHILDREN OF SKYE O’MALLEY

EWAN O’FLAHERTY
born March 28th, 1556
MURROUGH O’FLAHERTY
born January 15th, 1557
WILLOW MARY SMALL
born April 5th, 1560
ROBERT SOUTHWOOD
born September 18th, 1563
JOHN SOUTHWOOD
born December 15th, 1564, died April 15, 1566
DEIRDRE BURKE
born December 12th, 1567
PADRAIC BURKE
born January 30th, 1569

THE STEPCHILDREN OF SKYE O’MALLEY

SUSANNE SOUTHWOOD
betrothed to Lord Trevenyan
GWYNETH AND JOAN
twin sisters, betrothed to
SOUTHWOOD
Skye’s sons, Ewan and Murrough O’Flaherty

SKYE’S FRIENDS

SIR ROBERT SMALL
Skye’s business partner
DAME CECILY SMALL
his elder sister, a widow
ADAM DE MARISCO
the Lord of Lundy Island
DAISY
Skye’s tiring woman and faithful confidante
SIR RICHARD DE GRENVILLE
Skye’s old friend, a sea captain

THE IRISH

THE MACWILLIAM
Niall Burke’s father
CAPTAIN SEAN MACGUIRE
the senior captain of the O’Malley fleet
CAPTAIN BRAN KELLY
an O’Malley captain
CLAIRE O’FLAHERTY
Dom O’Flaherty’s sister
SISTER MARY PENITENT
the former Darragh O’Neil, Niall’s first wife, marriage annulled

THE ENGLISH

ELIZABETH TUDOR
the Queen of England, 1558 to 1603
WILLIAM CECIL, LORD BURGHLEY
the English Secretary of State, and the Queen’s greatest confidant
ROBERT DUDLEY, THE EARL OF LEICESTER
the Queen’s oldest friend, and favorite
SIR CHRISTOPHER HATTON
another of the Queen’s favorites, and Captain of the Gentlemen Pensioners
LETTICE KNOLLYS, COUNTESS OF ESSEX
the Queen’s cousin
 
THE ALGERIANS
 
OSMAN     
a famous astrologer and Skye’s old friend
ALIMA
    
his French wife
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