Heather McCorkle

Heather McCorkle combines historical romance with a broader catalogue of speculative fiction, often returning to Irish heritage and migration. The Emerald Belles sequence reaches its third standalone story with Deirdre’s True Desire, whose Irish American widow seeks an independent future in Sonoma County after the Civil War. Deirdre intends to establish a winery, but resistance to a woman purchasing land complicates that plan, while Kin O'Leary and Dylan O'Reilly offer sharply different kinds of assistance. Lyrical Press released it during 2017. To Tame a Highland Earl and Courting the Corporal precede the work, each following women of Irish background through nineteenth-century lives beyond Ireland. This installment joins settlement, enterprise, and courtship without reducing Deirdre's ambition to a romantic obstacle. Her effort to secure land and livelihood gives the relationship plot a practical foundation, while the continuing sequence links personal reinvention to migration, family inheritance, and the building of new communities.