Danny Russell
Special to THE DAILY

In her latest work, author Luanne Rice carries the reader on repeated journeys from New England to Ireland as two people seek to gain closure for their shared heartache.

Choices must be made between passionate love and dedication to binding religious vows.

Three people must then decide what matters most.

Love story

Sister Bernadette Ignatius and Tom Kelley have been in love for years.

However, Bernadette’s deep commitment to her religious vows keep them separate.

Unable to live with guilt and loss, they begin to search for the son they left in a Catholic orphanage in Ireland more than 20 years earlier. Concurrently, the son is searching for his childhood sweetheart taken away from him years earlier. The reunion promises to be explosive.

The story is overly complicated, developing laboriously to the point of boredom.

On the positive side, the reader is taken on a beautiful tour of Ireland and given a look inside the hierarchy of Catholic religious order.

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