Proud Irish Heart is set in Ireland and in Miami, Florida in 1895. Kate Murray, seeking to escape a dismal life created by her cruel father, takes her sister’s place as the match-made bride of Michael Driscoll. She has loved him since she was fourteen, but he went to America to make his fortune. After arriving in Miami, Kate rejects Michael’s proposal of marriage, believing it is only based on duty and obligation, while she wants love. Kate starts a successful restaurant called The Proud Irish Heart, but she cannot free herself from her desire for Michael. She is unsuccessful in her attempts to get him to renew his marriage proposal. Her passion for him increases when she learns his body while caring for him during a life-threatening fever. She feeds him, saves him from death by the fever and the designs of a lying woman, and finally attempts a seduction of Michael all without success. Michael fears making a commitment to their marriage and desires only Kate’s friendship. Frustrated, Kate leaves Miami. Will Michael follow her and propose again?

In 1847 when the Great Potato Blight devastates all of Ireland and the Law of Coercion is passed, Hugh McMillan and his family are forced from their small cabin out onto the road with nothing but the clothes on their backs to starve to death like so many of their neighbors had already succumbed. Survival tests their courage and hardships shape their destiny as they leave their beloved Ireland for the land of promise, America. Here they search for love and help to form their new country as they bravely fight for her freedom in war after war. Love, laughter, sorrow and tragedy outline their lives. A story of the true Irish heart in all its stubbornness, merriment, devotion, love for life and a drink or two or ?

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