Daily Online Read: Voyage of an Irish Warrior by Michelle Willingham

I am sooo looking forward to reading how Quin is going to change Brenna's mind!  

I'm already hooked, wanting to know why she chose Aimon over Quin and how he will change her mind.  And I'm sure he will convince her, especially now that Aimon is gone.  I know I'm having palpitations over him already, and I know precious little about him, other than that he apparently has a single-minded desire for Brenna, which always gets to me.

I'm intrigued over her feelings of guilt and wonder why, if she was harboring some feelings for Quin, she denied him initially.  Can't wait to read more of this story!  I'm so glad it's a daily!

Michelle, what an amazing first chapter. Wow. I'm totally hooked.

Great intro and the first chapter has me hooked.

Michelle, I can't wait to see how you get Brena past her guilty feelings and I can tell already that Quin is a drool worthy hero. Really looking forward to starting my day off with a new chapter.

Intro draws a person right into the thoughts of the lonely Brenna.  Loving Quin before I ever finished the first chapter.  He would've been my first choice.

Can't wait til tomorrow.  Sometimes, the bad boy wins.  It's all good. LOl

And I don't usually read historicals.  Great intro and first chapter, Michelle.  Can hardly wait for tomorrow.  Quin sounds like my kind of man! 

PS...Edit added...I'm not crazy.    When I posted the first message, it didn't show up so I redid it.  The first chapter was worth the second 'Hoorah!' anyway.  LOL

I'm with the others on this one.  Wondering how Quinn will convince Brenna, why is Brenna feeling guilty, and why does she feel she made the wrong choice in choosing her man.  You will have us panting for more during the month.  Too bad it's not a full length book so we can read it all at once.

Quin is Patrick MacEgan's first cousin. His father was a brother to Duncan MacEgan (Patrick's father).  His mother was an O'Neill.  Oh, and there's no direct kinship to Brenna, despite his maternal ties, don't worry!

And yes, you will see some MacEgan cameos in there....I couldn't resist!

I'm with Carol, too impatient to wait.  Great first chapter!!

Steph

KatherineT--incidentally, I just realized that there was a typo in the story's year.  It should be 1181, not 1180.  My apologies!  It takes place, the spring after Taming Her Irish Warrior.  I didn't realize that I somehow missed that, but I wanted to clarify as the remaining events take place.  Maybe I can have them fix that.  If not, my fault!

KatherineT--I'm just glad you made that comment!  When you said it, I thought, wait a minute.  It can't be the spring of 1180 in this story, because of the supporting characters that will come in--it has to be 1181.  So, anyhow, I e-mailed TPTB and asked them to make the adjustment.  I'm not sure if it's an easy fix or not, but we'll try!

It was a situation where, in my brain, it was always 1181 and it never occurred to me to double-check the year at the beginning.  Oops.  I swear, children suck away all of your brain cells...

swooooon    :)

I like Quin.  Brenna's being a pip!

 Wonderful start...I enjoy your historical romances! curious to see how Quin and Brenna work this out.

well if Brenna doesn't want him, I'm first in line!  ... I'll take him!   ... oh my, that Quin  ...... swoooooon  

the same thing.  Brenna thought about being with her foster parents and them trying to shield everything from her.  She probably was illegitimate, but the shame wasn't her fault.  Unfortunately people aren't always kind, and it was probably much worse back in those days.  However, Quin is just the man to get her to change her mind.

I'm loving this story and the way Michelle is feeding it to us bit by bit.  I really enjoy historicals.

that Quin needs to enlist his cousins' wives to have a heart to heart chat with Brenna .... they're all passionate women who I'm sure will be delighted to reassure Brenna that what she's feeling is absolutely wonderful for a marriage 

I still say ... I'm calling first dibs on Quin!  

I completely fell in love with him when I wrote him.  There's something about a man who builds ships...

 Anyone here watch NCIS?  Maybe a younger version of Gibbs? 

Quin is an excellent hero:  strong and yet tender, protective, and completely and hopelessly in love with Brenna.  You have to love a man like that!

BTW, how does Gibbs get those boats out of his basement?

WOW, just read all 4 chapters at once... can't wait for more.     Brenna is ashamed of her passion because of her mother...  going to be interesting watching Quin try to change her mind...  seems to be pretty deeply ingrained.   Wonder what her foster parents were like.  She definitely needs a talking to by someone she admires to help her get over it.

hmmmm.... there goes her resolve not to let him do anything to her.  

I'll be envisioning Quin, damp from the rain and with all those muscles bared (because I like to imagine that Aimon's tunic didn't fit him), kneeling behind Brenna rubbing her back and massaging her scalp.  What a nice and toasty image for the weekend, and how evil of you, Michelle, to leave us wondering for the whole weekend how Brenna will react! 

and sexy man.  I also like to think that Aimon's clothes don't fit.  Aah, the beautiful sight that greeted her eyes when he took his shirt off.  Yummy!

What a place to leave us with Quin behind Brenna, starting to massage her...  We have a whole weekeend to wait now.  Brenna doesn't know just how lucky she is.

I'm enjoying this so far Michelle. I've not read any of your books yet except I think I read an Undone! you wrote? At any rate, this story is whetting my appetite to pull out some of those books of yours i have stashed on one of my several TBR book cases. :-)

Shewolf--I hope you enjoy the stories!

Dorthy--Thanks so much!  Hope you like Ewan's book, too.  I just found out that "The Viking's Forbidden Love-Slave" will be out in a print anthology this coming April.  It's called Pleasurably Undone and contains other Undone short stories by Terri Brisbin, Diane Gaston, Louise Allen, and Christine Merrill.  Very exciting. 

I need to get off the Internet and go back to writing Trahern MacEgan's book.  I have about 41,000 words so far...a little over the halfway point.