When she comes to, she sees the face of a man who looks familiar but can’t place where she has seen him before. She’s disoriented, frightened, and somehow ends up getting shot and nearly drowns, until she is pulled out to safety. He raised her since she was six when her parents died.Īnne rents a little boat and rows out to the middle of the Lough to release Eoin’s ashes and somehow a white fog appears. Anne was so overcome by her grief because all she had was her grandfather. This was his last request before he passed away. When her beloved grandfather dies, she journeys to his homeland of Ireland to spread his ashes on the Lough in the town he was born. I am so glad that I did, because within the pages of this book is a beautiful love story that is fantastical and transcends space & time!Īnne Gallagher is a famous author from New York in the year 2001. I’m not a fan of ”Historical Romances”, and history puts me to sleep, literally! The majority of the plot of ”WHAT THE WIND KNOWS” is deeply entrenched in history, and I am not going to lie, I struggled to get through most of the book, BUT, Amy Harmon is a truly gifted author, and I decided to see this through to the end. I was a little nervous about reading this book. You cannot walk on water, love The lough will take you far from me.” But in the end, is the choice actually hers to make? Caught between history and her heart, she must decide whether she’s willing to let go of the life she knew for a love she never thought she’d find. Mistaken for the boy’s long-missing mother, Anne adopts her identity, convinced the woman’s disappearance is connected to her own.Īs tensions rise, Thomas joins the struggle for Ireland’s independence and Anne is drawn into the conflict beside him.

Thomas Smith, guardian to a young boy who is oddly familiar. But there Anne finds herself, hurt, disoriented, and under the care of Dr.

The Ireland of 1921, teetering on the edge of war, is a dangerous place in which to awaken. There, overcome with memories of the man she adored and consumed by a history she never knew, she is pulled into another time. Heartbroken at his death, she travels to his childhood home to spread his ashes. In an unforgettable love story, a woman’s impossible journey through the ages could change everything…Īnne Gallagher grew up enchanted by her grandfather’s stories of Ireland.

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