Genre: Adult, Contemporary Romance
Do you believe in soul mates?
Rian O’Malley knew the minute he saw Liadh O’Neil that she was the missing piece of his puzzle. They would be together forever. The only problem, they were both five years old at the time. When Rian lost Liadh, he shut away a part of his heart and no woman ever managed to capture the piece of his soul that belonged to Liadh.
Do you believe in true love?
Rian O’Malley is all grown up. Life is good as a sexy brooding multi millionaire businessman. Being CEO of the O’Malley Caribbean resorts affords Rian every luxury, but in love Rian is guarded, the guise of cheeky carefree playboy hides the depths of his fractured heart.
Liadh O’Neil is back in town.
Scarred by the fire that changed her physically and emotionally, Liadh O’Neil is changed. Although broken on the inside, outwardly Liadh is a confident and professional woman. Can Rian break through the façade and find the real Liadh? Old friendships are rekindled and old adversaries resurface, soon Rian must fight for Liadh’s life as well as her heart.
The magic is still there, the chemistry too hot to deny. Can Rian break down Liadh’s barriers when his own walls seem so impenetrable?
The curtains were pulled so tightly that not even a sliver of light entered the room. Only the soft glow from the fireplace illuminated a small area of the bed and Liadh stood naked and proud as she watched Rian slowly undress. As his cock sprang loose from his tight black cotton boxers she breathed in sharply. So magnificent a sight before her, she almost lost her composure. His skin had beads of sweat that shone like diamonds on his skin, and she could smell the muskiness of it as he took off each layer and dropped it beside him onto the wooden floorboards.
Rian walked towards her and kissed her full and hard on the mouth, he pulled her in close to his body. Liadh could feel every inch of him hard and wet. She was enveloped by the blackness of the room, the serenity of their secret place, intoxicated by the scent and shape of him, the feeling of his coolness against her warmth. His mouth, his lips, his tongue, all known to her and so precious. Liadh returned every movement, replicated every touch he lavished upon her. Abandoning any semblance of reason or fear she grinded against him as the tip of his cock banged over her pussy tantalising every piece of her.
He held her face tightly and deepened the kiss, his tongue probing into her mouth, his teeth nipping at her lips as she moaned loudly into his mouth.
“My mouth wants your cock,” she mumbled into his mouth. Rían stilted suddenly and she felt his breath coming in short bursts.
“Are you sure, I mean I don’t want you to feel you have to do…”
Liadh pressed her fingers to his lips “Shut up Rían, I want you in my mouth. Give me what I want.”
His mouth was dry so he just nodded at her. Whatever she wanted she would have. It had always been that way.
Rian lay back on the bed and threaded his hands behind his head. Liadh gripped the base of his cock in her hand and traced her tongue up the length of it, twirling it around the head, teasing him, owning him. Rian’s hands flew down to his sides and he gripped either side of the bed, his lower torso rising slightly off the bed to meet her tongue. She felt him tense and jump slightly with the intensity of feeling. His body writhed from the touch of her mouth wrapped around his cock, so warm, so soft. Her hand wandered up to his thighs and she spread them kneading the inside greedily between her fingers, as her mouth continued to suck on him in a steady rhythm, fast and then slow. Twisting her mouth left and right she teased him, tantalised him until he was moaning and begging her to stop.
“Liadh…Liadh you need to stop lovey, I’m gonna come Liadh..Oh Jesus!”
Liadh looked up at him wiping her mouth with the back of her hand.
“Then come Rí, come into my mouth. I want to taste you. I want all of it.” Rian bit his lower lip and bucked beneath her mouth as she brought him to the cusp of an orgasm. Smiling at him she bent her head one last time, gave one last suck as he exploded into her mouth holding her hair tightly between his fingers. He didn’t shout out, instead he shook and whispered her name quietly over and over again. Liadh loved it, the sense of control that washed though her. She had done that, she had given Rían pleasure, and she had made him weak and helpless in her arms. She laid her head on his thigh as he caught his breath and rubbed her hair gently. The taste of him, the smell of him captured in her mouth and on her tongue, she was even hotter for him.
This is the story of two friends. Two soul mates separated at an age when they were way too young to understand why their connection was so strong and why they couldn’t bear to be away from each other.
Life hasn’t been kind with Liadh. She’s the flower child of a sixteen year old girl who lost everything when she refused to give her up. Their existence is made unbearable by a society who has always shunned and abused people like them.
The only ray of sunshine in Liadh’s life is Rian, her best friend and play mate who makes everything seem brighter, easier.
Rian was born with privileges. His family is rich but he has learned from a young age that everything must be earned and nothing is given freely. As a child, he never had to worry about what others might think of him or if his family loved him or not.
Growing up, he had earned his place in the high society but he always felt her loss like a physical thing. The day she left, she took a part of him with her.
Years later, Rian and Liadh meet again but they are not children anymore and too much has happened. The scars on Liadh’s soul are too deep and the woman she has become cannot trust as easily as the child she has been once.
This is a sweet story that will captivate your from the very first pages. I didn’t quite knew what to expect since I didn’t read the other books in the series so everything was new for me.
My biggest dream is to visit Ireland one day so, when you say “story based in Ireland” for me is like dangling a carrot in front of a donkey. I’m all over it in a second and I can only blame Nora Roberts for that but we’re getting out of topic.
The O’Malley’s was Michelle’s debut series as an author and she did a good job but there is place for improvement.
Here’s one thing that I always found off putting in a book- skipping through large periods of time without giving the readers any kind of detail about what might have happened in that lapse of time.
I really don’t like it. In the end, there were a few sentences here and there about what Liadh went through after moving to Dublin but too few to cover a twenty years absence, in my opinion.
Something else that I don’t particularly appreciate is rushing it. Yes, I believe it’s possible to fall at least in lust if not in love at first sight but still.
I always like to see a relationship develop, I want to understand how they got where they are, what made them fall in love. Makes everything more interesting, don’t you think?
Things progressed way too fast for Liadh and Rian and it was kind of hard for me keep up with all the action. It also made it impossible to connect with the characters. They are pretty interesting and funny at times but I just couldn’t. It felt like there was something missing, that they could have been better.
But, like I said, Michelle is a beginner and she has great potential. I will continue to read this series because I am curious now. The O’Malley’s are an colorful bunch.
Do I recommend? Yes. You should definitely read it. It’s fast paced and it’s perfect when you want to relax and just sit down with a book.
Happy reading!!
This is the song that fits Rian and Liadh story perfectly
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Michelle McLoughney was raised and still lives in the south west of Ireland, where she runs a Montessori school. An award winning poet, she began writing her first adult romance over a year ago. Being a lover of all things romantic, Michelle just loves a happy ever after. She likes to write strong but loving male leads, and their feisty and funny love interests. When she is not busy daydreaming, plotting or having conversations with her characters; she likes to indulge her addiction to Netflix, usually accompanied by chocolate and wine.
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