That Childhood Country

They should have never come together that night.
Rose O'Beirne Moffat was a lovely, high-spirited girl, schooled in a convent and knowing little of the power of the flesh. John Flynn was the most handsome young man in the county, and the most decent, until he was overwhelmed by a desire he could not control. It was an innocent love that sparked their burning passion while strolling along the Irish countryside one summer's eve, planting the seed for a secret bloodline of family lies and illicit shames. For fate and fortune soon wrenched them apart, betraying forever their chance for happiness, haunting the destinies of the next generation of innocent lovers, who would be forced to pay a shocking price for their parents' web of deception.