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Dorien Kelly is the award-winning author of The Last Bride in Ballymuir, the first novel in her captivating trilogy set in Ireland from Pocket Books. She is the recipient of both the Romance Writers of America's Golden Heart Award and the Georgia Romance Writers' coveted Maggie Award. A frequent visitor to Ireland, Dorien has followed the coast from Dublin to Dingle and north to Dungloe, and tracked the River Shannon from beginning to end. When not traveling the Irish byways with her family, Dorien can be found in Michigan. For a bit of flavor from her journeys, visit her website at www.dorienkelly.com.

When Ballymuir's sharp-witted artist Violet Kilbride, who inherited the gift of second sight from her beloved grandmother, decides to sell her nan's cottage in Duncarraig, she returns to a town that holds complicated memories. Vi fell in love with Liam Rafferty there one teenage summer and has never gotten over their failed romance. When she runs into Liam -- now a divorced dad -- the attraction flares anew. But just as quickly, their reignited passion is threatened by Liam's quest for the legendary treasure known as Rafferty's gold, which was entrusted to an ancestor of Vi's who was also scorned by a Rafferty man. Determined to find the gold herself -- and to see that it ends up in a museum -- Vi pits her second sight against Liam's fancy gold-hunting gadgets. But the lure of lost treasure doesn't stand a chance against a love like this...or does it?