Blind
Loyalty by Cassandra Hawke
Blind loyalty involves being loyal to a person or cause despite everything.
Despite the damage it can do to themselves or others. It can extend to a thing,
a sports team or even an individual person.
It is often
seen in domestic violence situations in which victim will refuse to admit there
is a problem or if so, refuse to lay charges against them. They know in their
heart what has happened is wrong but they love their spouse and feel obliged to
be loyal.
Family
feuds often cover generations due to a ‘blood is thicker than water’ attitude
held in the family - especially if one sibling is subject to unpleasant
treatment and the other becomes protective of that sibling. Generally, blind
loyalty is based on a deep sense of love for the other person involved, but it
can be hard for the person on the outside looking in. It is particularly hard
when the person you love puts another first and then refuses to accept evidence
of wrong-doing even when it is put right in front of them.
In my new
release, Blood Ties a Broken Heart, my heroine Rylee struggles with the issue of blind loyalty
in the essence that she cannot come to terms with how her boyfriend is so
shortsighted about his sister’s actions. Ash refuses to believe that his baby
sister, Arden, can do any wrong. All Rylee wants is to be put first for once by
the man she loves. Will he ever put Rylee before his sister? Find out by
checking out my new release today!
When Ashford St. Clair takes the rap for his
sister’s horse doping, he loses his true love, Rylee O’Shaunessy. Is it too
late for love when he finally admits his mistake?
When Rylee
returns to Adelaide to take over her godmother’s stables, seeing Ashford St.
Clair brings back memories of past events—when he sacrificed a promising
equestrian career and alienated Rylee in the process.
Ash is
determined to win Rylee back and they reach an uneasy compromise when their
passion for each other is reignited. But the deeds of the past still haunt the
present, threatening their relationship. An old enemy returns to cause trouble
for Rylee—Ash’s sister, Arden—the one who brought about Ash’s downfall in the
first place. She makes it clear that there’s no room for Rylee in Ash’s life
and she’ll do anything she can to make sure that the lovers remain apart.
Will Rylee
come to terms with the mistakes she and Ash made in the past and learn to love
and trust each other again?
Reader Advisory: This book contains references
to past violence for one of the main characters.
She
hugged the cotton rug close to her chest and glared at him over it. “You
shouldn’t be here. You should have called.”
He
grimaced. “I know, but I didn’t want you forbidding me to come.”
“Why
have you come? To check on your sister’s handiwork?” Rylee challenged him.
“Arden’s
handiwork?”
“She
was here earlier. She whipped me—and my horse.”
“Arden’s in Melbourne this week,” Ash
responded.
Rylee
shook her head. “No, she’s not.”
When
he ignored her protest, a deep seated uneasiness slithered over her. It had
begun when Arden had first appeared in the arena and now growled menacingly in
the back of Rylee’s mind. Just what lengths would this woman go to keep them
apart?
Rylee
saw the disbelief in Ash’s expression, but she was determined to make him see
the truth.
“She
was here.” She swiveled on the bale and pulled her shirt off her shoulder. The
red welt from the whip and the tiny beads of blood showed clearly, even in the
dim light of the loft. “See this? This is her handiwork.”
He
stepped up close behind her to examine her injury, and her body buzzed with
awareness, soaking up the warmth that radiated from him.
His
fingertips were cool and gentle as he stroked her shoulder. “I don’t
understand. I don’t believe you would lie to me, but I put Arden on the plane
for Melbourne last night. She is not due back until the end of the week.
“She
was here not more than an hour ago.”
He
gripped her shoulders. His desperate sexual need seeped from his body into
hers. She could sense his confusion and uncertainty. Most of all she could
sense his need for her.
“Say
what you mean. Arden is still between us, and you’re never going to let it die,
are you? You will do anything to blacken her in my eyes.”
Cassandra was a closet writer for several years before she
got brave enough to share her work with anyone until she joined Eyre Writers
Inc, a creative writing group in the seaside town of Port Lincoln and really
began to improve.
Her first book was a 100,000 words family saga novel, but
after a workshop on 'How to write a Mills and Boon', she embarked on a new
direction—writing the romance novel.
After being made redundant from the job she loved in 2011
she became a carer for her frail, vision-impaired mother and turned to
fulfilling her dream of becoming a writer.
When Cassandra's not writing she enjoys spending time with
family and friends, especially her mother, and her three wonderful adult
children and two adorable grandchildren.
She also enjoys egg decorating and carving, reading of
course, painting and cooking.
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