A Rose Among Thorns Paperback – March 31, 2026

Brenna Rose Sullivan reached to wipe a stray lock of hair from her eye with the back of her hand, and immediately regretted it. The streak of salmon blood mingled with the perspiration on her brow, and trickled down her cheek. Exasperated, she reached with her shoulder and wiped away the offensive smear, then closed her eyes and bowed her head when she saw the bloodstain on her sleeve.Hulda, butchering a salmon next to her on the table, grinned viciously. “I’ll help you with that.” She pinched a clot of blood from the inside of her fish, reached up and rubbed it into Brenna Rose’s eyebrow, then patted the rest on the top of her head. At the girl’s squeal, the other butcher women turned, and the place echoed with coarse laughter. Hulda shook her knife in front of Brenna Rose’s nose. “You should wear a kerchief on your head. You don’t want to get hair in the salmon.”So began a cylcle of attacks that nearly killed her. One man was pressed into the gap as a defender – Irish Liam Moloney. But would one man be enough? Read more