A Lantern in the Dark: An O'Brien Tale (The O'Brien Tales)
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A Lantern in the Dark: An O'Brien Tale (The O'Brien Tales)

Paperback – November 1, 2016

Price
$19.99
Format
Paperback
Pages
564
Publisher
CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Publication Date
ISBN-13
978-1540798510
Dimensions
6 x 1.28 x 9 inches
Weight
1.64 pounds

Description

About the Author Stacey Reynolds is an American author living in Colorado with her husband and their three youngest children. Before she became a military spouse and a writer, she was a police officer. She has followed her Marine around the globe both traveling and living abroad. This is her second novel.

Features & Highlights

  • In a sleepy beach town in Coastal Carolina, two lost souls learn the destructive nature of secrets and the healing power of love. Captain Aidan O’Brien is a decorated Officer of the Royal Irish Regiment. While on a personal mission with his brother to retrieve Michael’s would-be mate, Aidan visits an old friend on the local Marine Corps base. Aidan accepts an opportunity to return, to train with the infantry marines at Camp Lejeune. Alanna Falk is a grad student, working with PTSD patients in a nearby recovery clinic. A few months after the unexpected visit from the O’Brien brothers, Alanna can’t seem to get the eldest O’Brien out of her mind. She assumes that she’ll never see him again. After all, Aidan is a soldier in the Royal Irish Regiment, living in Belfast. She’s living in her best friend's beach house in North Carolina. When Aidan shows up on her beachfront deck unannounced, the fireworks fly… along with a Louisville Slugger that she keeps on hand. Both Aidan and Alanna have their own reasons for being alone. As a friendship blossoms and the attraction grows, each begins to uncover the shadows that haunt the other. Tormented by dreams of a terrible day in Kabul, Afghanistan, Aidan rebuffs Alanna’s attempts to offer him counsel. Alanna refuses to open up to anyone about why she keeps a handgun in her desk and a bat within reach. Aidan swore he’d never marry, never put a woman or children through life in the military. But the lovely, southern beauty challenges his strongest defenses. He comes to realize that Alanna may need him even more than he needs her. Especially as the tide turns, and Alanna’s secret fears become a very real danger.

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Most Helpful Reviews

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Excellent storyline

This is an excellent book in the Stacey Reynolds "Obrien series". I would highly recommend reading her novels, in the order that she released them. They just get better and better!!
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Totally enjoyable sequel.

This has been another enjoyable read & wonderful adventure w/the O'Brien Family. So well written you become a part of the story. I anxiously await receiving Volumes 3, 4, & 5. Steamy & sensational.
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Totally enjoyable sequel.

This has been another enjoyable read & wonderful adventure w/the O'Brien Family. So well written you become a part of the story. I anxiously await receiving Volumes 3, 4, & 5. Steamy & sensational.
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I didn't think I could love the characters as much in the second book

Stacey has done it again! I didn't think I could love the characters as much in the second book, but I was wrong. I wasn't sure I would get into book 2 as much as I did book 1, but again, I was wrong. I found myself feeling as if the O'Brien family was my own. I loved the strength of the women characters and the sensitive nature of the men. There is nothing quite as sexy as a manly man who is in tune with his woman. All of the characters are strong and loving and so real I feel like I know them personally. The issues of PTSD and military members coming home wounded are real issues that need more attention. Stacey handles these topics masterfully and taught me many things about different treatments and therapies. I'm very impressed with this series, and I can't wait for more. I need to know how the rest of the O'Brien crew are going to turn out. Keep writing Stacey....