After the Rising

"One is immersed in this epic story immediately and effortlessly… The main characters are so well-drawn that you feel you have heard about them in your own life." - The Evening Herald

A death in the present—a killing in the past.

After twenty years away, Jo Devereux flies home to Ireland for her mother's funeral -- the mother she hasn't spoken to for more than two decades.

Every minute there reminds her of all the reasons she left and she has no desire to reacquaint herself with her home village. Or with Rory O'Donovan, the only man she ever loved.

Then, she reads her mother's will.
Her inheritance is a chest full of letters and journals, written by her grandmother and great-aunt. In them, Jo discovers a legacy of poison and hatred that has laid waste to the lives of four generations of women.

It began with a simple yearning for Irish Freedom that exploded into a horrific and bloody civil war. Neighbor turned against neighbor, brother against brother, daughters against fathers, family against family-- leaving a legacy of lies, deceit, and murder.

As Jo unearths the bitter, buried history she shares with Rory...
...it is clear their love was doomed from the start.

Can she stay true to both her heart and her heritage?
Or will she endure the same fate as all the women in her family?

After The Rising is a sweeping, multigenerational tale set in the 1920s and 1990s Ireland and 1980s San Francisco. It is the first book in The Irish Trilogy, followed by Before the Fall

This is perfect for fans of Barbara Erskine, MJ Lee or Anne Griffin.

ORNA ROSS is an award-winning writer, an advocate for independent authors and other creative entrepreneurs, and according the magazine of the UK publishing trade, The Bookseller, "one of the 100 most influential people in publishing". 

She writes novels, poems and nonfiction guides for creatives, and is Founder-Director of two popular online communities, the Alliance of Independent Authors (ALLi) and The Creativist Club.