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The Heirs of Cahira O’Connor

by Angela Hunt 4 books in this series

The Heirs of Cahira O’Connor links a modern researcher, Kathleen O’Connor, with women in her family’s legendary past. Her investigation begins with Cahira, an Irish king’s daughter who resists Norman conquest, and uncovers later heirs who cross the boundaries imposed on women in medieval Prague, the Dutch East Indies and the American Civil War.

Each historical heroine combines courage with a different vocation: warfare, natural-history art, medicine or defence of land and kin. The Christian element lies in Cahira’s deathbed prayer that future women will restore what is wrong, and in the descendants’ recurring struggle to distinguish sacrificial service from ambition, revenge and romantic fantasy.

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Books in this series (4 books)

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1. The Silver Sword

Angela Hunt

4.2(1,324)

Kathleen O’Connor’s research into the legend of Cahira leads her to Anika, a fifteenth-century woman in Prague who refuses the passive future assigned to her. Amid Hussite conflict and siege, Anika’s aptitude for weapons and determination to act place her inside struggles over religion, political loyalty…

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2. The Golden Cross

Angela Hunt

4.3(937)

Aidan O’Connor grows up among thieves and sex workers in a Dutch colony on Java until a cartographer recognises her unusual gift for drawing plants and animals. Disguised as a boy, she joins him at sea and enters a world of Company trade, scientific collecting and…

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3. The Velvet Shadow

Angela Hunt

4.3(748)

Flanna O’Connor is studying medicine in Boston when civil war cuts her off from her Charleston family. Refusing to wait helplessly, she assumes a male identity and joins the Union Army, where she must conceal her sex while proving that she can endure military discipline and…

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4. The Emerald Isle

Angela Hunt

4.3(810)

Cahira O’Connor, daughter of a king of Connacht, resists the marriage and domestic obedience expected of her. When Norman expansion threatens her people, military necessity and her growing love for a man who recognises her courage draw her into the conflict from which the later family…

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