All the Sweet Tomorrows
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Authors: Bertrice Small
“Sweet Skye, let me love you. Let me adore the perfection of your beautiful body. For tonight at least, you belong to me!”
He lowered his head, and with his hot tongue began an encirclement of her nipple. Around and around and around until she began to whimper deep within her throat, and he took the entire nipple in his mouth, sending a knife-sharp pulse of rapture through her body.
Taking one of her slender feet in his hands, he kissed it, then began licking it sensuosly. His hungry mouth kissed, his tongue lapped tenderly in the hollows of her ankle, and when he reached her knee he began again with the other foot. Pulling himself back up level with her, he licked her chest and his tongue slid easily over her torso, not missing an inch of skin as he moved along.
“Adam! Stop! You will drive me mad!” Skye gasped.
“Then we shall be mad together, sweet Skye,” he said, and lowered his head once more, this time his tongue snaking out to touch her in her most sensitive place …
By Bertrice Small:
THE KADIN
LOVE WILD AND FAIR
ADORA
UNCONQUERED
BELOVED
ENCHANTRESS MINE
BLAZE WYNDHAM
THE SPITFIRE
A MOMENT IN TIME
TO LOVE AGAIN
LOVE, REMEMBER ME
THE LOVE SLAVE
HELLION
BETRAYED
DECEIVED
THE INNOCENT
A MEMORY OF LOVE
THE DUCHESS
THE DRAGON LORD’S DAUGHTERS
PRIVATE PLEASURES
FORBIDDEN PLEASURE
SUDDEN PLEASURES
The O’Malley Saga
SKYE O’MALLEY
ALL THE SWEET TOMORROWS
A LOVE FOR ALL TIME
THIS HEART OF MINE
LOST LOVE FOUND
WILD JASMINE
Skye’s Legacy
DARLING JASMINE
BEDAZZLED
BESIEGED
INTRIGUED
JUST BEYOND TOMORROW
VIXENS
The Friarsgate Inheritance
ROSEMUND
UNTIL YOU
PHILIPPA
THE LAST HEIRESS
The World of Hetar
LARA
A DISTANT TOMORROW
THE TWILIGHT LORD
THE SORCERESS OF BELMAIR
THE SHADOW QUEEN
Copyright © 1984 by Bertrice Small
All rights reserved.
Published in the United States by Ballantine Books, an imprint of The Random House Publishing Group, a division of Random House, Inc., New York, and simultaneously in Canada by Random House of Canada Limited, Toronto.
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This book is dedicated with much love and great
respect to the first hero I ever had, my father,
David Roger Williams. You’re still my hero,
Daddy!
The world has laid low,
and the wind
blows away like ashes
Alexander, Caesar, and all who were
in their trust;
Grass-grown is Tara,
and see Troy now how it is—
And the English themselves,
perhaps they too
will pass!
—Anonymous Irish poem, 17th or 18th century
THE O’MALLEYS OF INNISFANA ISLAND, IRELAND
| SKYE O’MALLEY | known as the O’Malley, chief of her clan |
| SEAMUS O’MALLEY | her elderly uncle, Bishop of Mid-Connaught |
| ANNE O’MALLEY | Skye’s widowed stepmother |
| EIBHLIN O’MALLEY | Skye’s elder sister, a nun and a doctor |
| MOIRE, PEIGI, BRIDE, AND SINE | Skye’s other sisters, all older |
| MICHAEL O’MALLEY | Skye’s full brother, a priest |
| BRIAN, SHANE, SHAMUS, AND CONN | Anne’s sons, Skye’s half-brothers |
THE HUSBANDS OF SKYE O’MALLEY
| DOM O’FLAHERTY | her first, the Master of Ballyhennessey |
| KHALID EL BEY | her second, known as “the |
| ( Diego Indio Goya de Fuentes ) | Great Whoremaster of Algiers,” a Spaniard turned Moslem |
| LORD GEOFFREY | her third, the Earl of |
| SOUTHWOOD | Lynmouth, known as the “Angel Earl” |
| LORD NIALL BURKE | her fourth, and Skye’s first love |
THE CHILDREN OF SKYE O’MALLEY
| EWAN O’FLAHERTY | born March 28th, 1556 |
| MURROUGH O’FLAHERTY | born January 15th, 1557 |
| WILLOW MARY SMALL | born April 5th, 1560 |
| ROBERT SOUTHWOOD | born September 18th, 1563 |
| JOHN SOUTHWOOD | born December 15th, 1564, died April 15, 1566 |
| DEIRDRE BURKE | born December 12th, 1567 |
| PADRAIC BURKE | born January 30th, 1569 |
THE STEPCHILDREN OF SKYE O’MALLEY
| SUSANNE SOUTHWOOD | betrothed to Lord Trevenyan |
| GWYNETH AND JOAN | twin sisters, betrothed to |
| SOUTHWOOD | Skye’s sons, Ewan and Murrough O’Flaherty |
SKYE’S FRIENDS
| SIR ROBERT SMALL | Skye’s business partner |
| DAME CECILY SMALL | his elder sister, a widow |
| ADAM DE MARISCO | the Lord of Lundy Island |
| DAISY | Skye’s tiring woman and faithful confidante |
| SIR RICHARD DE GRENVILLE | Skye’s old friend, a sea captain |
THE IRISH
| THE MACWILLIAM | Niall Burke’s father |
| CAPTAIN SEAN MACGUIRE | the senior captain of the O’Malley fleet |
| CAPTAIN BRAN KELLY | an O’Malley captain |
| CLAIRE O’FLAHERTY | Dom O’Flaherty’s sister |
| SISTER MARY PENITENT | the former Darragh O’Neil, Niall’s first wife, marriage annulled |
THE ENGLISH
| ELIZABETH TUDOR | the Queen of England, 1558 to 1603 |
| WILLIAM CECIL, LORD BURGHLEY | the English Secretary of State, and the Queen’s greatest confidant |
| ROBERT DUDLEY, THE EARL OF LEICESTER | the Queen’s oldest friend, and favorite |
| SIR CHRISTOPHER HATTON | another of the Queen’s favorites, and Captain of the Gentlemen Pensioners |
| LETTICE KNOLLYS, COUNTESS OF ESSEX | the Queen’s cousin |
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| THE ALGERIANS | |
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| OSMAN | a famous astrologer and Skye’s old friend |
| ALIMA | his French wife |
