The Moonlight Runner

The Moonlight Runner

Author: Karen Robards Listening Length: 11h 59m
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In the wake of the Great War, a young woman joins the Irish rebellion and risks everything for her country in this sweeping story of love, bravery and the relentless pursuit of freedom from New York Times bestselling author Karen Robards. Ireland, 1918. In a world brutalized by the Great War and devastated by the Spani...

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“No, we’ll stay to our plan,” Maguire said. “Except we’ll be putting these fine folks ashore on Inishmurray.”

The tiny island of Inishmurray, as everyone knew, was home to a now-deserted monastery known as the Cashel as well as a settlement of perhaps two hundred souls whose families had lived there for generations and who presently survived

on fishing and the making of illegal Irish moonshine whiskey and its equally illegal predecessor poteen. Some six kilometers

off the coast of Sligo, it was little more than a grassy rock protruding from the bay. The waters around the island were notoriously