Praise for Kate Hoffmann from RT Book Reviews
The Charmer âHoffmannâs deeply felt, emotional story is riveting. Itâs impossible to put down.â
Your Bed or Mine? âFully developed characters and perfect pacing make this story feel completely right.â
Doing Ireland! âSexy and wildly romanticâ
The Mighty Quinns: Ian âA very hot story mixes with great characters to make every page a delight.â
Who Needs Mistletoe? âRomantic, sexy and heartwarmingâ
The Mighty Quinns: Teague âSexy, heartwarming and romantic ⦠a story to settle down with and enjoyâand then re-read.â
Dear Reader,
I believe this book represents a milestone of sorts! The Mighty Quinns: Kieran is the twentieth book in my MIGHTY QUINNS series. Eleven years ago, my first Quinn book, The Mighty Quinns: Connor, hit the bookstores. Itâs still hard to believe Iâve been living with this extended Irish family for such a long time!
Since this is the second in a four-book seriesâand Iâve got four more planned for next yearâIâm going to be living with them a little bit longer. Thank goodness they donât leave wet towels in the bathroom and dirty socks on my bedroom floor. But then, since I made them the people they are, I guess I could also suggest that they cook dinner and do the laundry whenever I wanted, too. But thatâs just wishful thinking â¦
I hope you enjoy this next installment in the Quinn saga!
All my best,
Kate Hoffmann
âSOMETIMES I WONDER what really happened to them.â
Kieran Quinn stared down at the section of weathered bright wood that heâd just sanded. He and his three brothers had had this same conversation over and over again during the past two years. And try as they might, they never came up with any answers to their questions.
The facts were simple. Their parents, Jamie and Suzanne Quinn, had been lost at sea, their boat disappearing somewhere between Seattle and the South Pacific. No one knew what happened, only that they were gone forever. Two years was a long time, but to Kieran, it felt like yesterday.
âSomeday, Iâm going to take this boat and try to find them,â Dermot announced.
Though his twin brother had always been a dreamer and an optimist, Kieran had been given the practical genes in the pair. Dermot spent his allowance like he had a bottomless piggy bank. Kieran saved every penny. Dermot was the first one to jump, Kieran always looked very carefully before leaping. Dermot saw the possibilities in every situation while Kieran saw the pitfalls.
Kieran glanced over at the section of teak that Dermot had been sanding. It was rough and uneven. Even at work, Dermot favored speed over quality. But then, the four brothers were all different. It was hard to believe they came from the same parents.
Cameron, the eldest, was quiet and creative, so clever that he immediately knew exactly how to get a job done. Their baby brother, Ronan, was sensitive and compassionate, the kind of kid who stuck up for the underdog. Yet their brotherly bonds were unbreakable. They always stood together.
He and his brothers were in the process of restoring an old 22-foot sloop that had been abandoned at their grandfatherâs boatyard. Though their grandfather insisted that they were too young to take it out on their own, that didnât stop them. Theyâd been working on it for nearly a year, after school and on weekends, and had hoped to put it in the water to celebrate Cameronâs fourteenth birthday.
âI used to think about it all the time,â Cameron murmured. âNow, it just makes me sad. Weâre never going to figure it out.â
âIt makes me mad,â Dermot said. âWhy didnât they wait for us? Maybe if weâd been along, things might have been different.â
âYou really think so?â Ronan asked. Since the accident, any mention of sailing made the youngest Quinn uneasy. He had stubbornly refused to set foot on a boat, making family sailing trips with their grandfather impossible.
Kieran felt a mixture of bothâanger and sadness. Their lives would have been so much different had their parents lived. Instead of just surviving their grief, theyâd be laughing and loving and enjoying every day. Heâd seen each of his brothers change in significant ways, but heâd felt the change in himself the most.
Heâd become cautious and careful. He wasnât willing to take any chances. He preferred his life to be perfectly ordered, so he knew exactly what to expect from day to day. He did his homework early, he completed his chores without complaint and he avoided conflict at every cost. It was hard to know what turns life would take, but Kieran did all he could to anticipate the future.