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Red Earth, Irish Rain · Book Two

The Mole

K.J. Martin — An Interracial Erotic Romance Thriller

Interracial Romance (BWWM) Established Couple Slow Burn + Steam Dual POV Institutional Corruption Found Family Protective Hero Suspense / Thriller
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Three months since Declan Byrne’s arrest. Three months since that name flickered on Quinn’s screen — the mole, unnamed, devastating — and Tadhg went white and said nothing for a very long time.

Rose Namulondo has built a life in the Wicklow cottage — candles, a casserole dish, a linen throw. The material vocabulary of a woman building a home in a country that isn’t hers, with a man who keeps forgetting to come back to it.

Garda Sergeant Tadhg O’Shea is chasing ghosts. The encrypted files keep yielding secrets. The mole inside the investigation is closer than anyone thinks. And in Kampala, a general sits reading Yeats while his network tightens its grip on two continents.

As Tadhg’s obsession with the case threatens to destroy everything he’s built with Rose, the investigation uncovers a web of corruption stretching from Dublin boardrooms to the red earth of Uganda. The mole’s identity will change everything — and the cost of the truth may be the love they’ve fought to protect.

The Story

Three months after the events of Between Two Worlds, Rose and Tadhg have settled into the Wicklow cottage — but settlement is fragile when the man you love disappears into encrypted files every night.

A mole inside the investigation threatens to unravel everything. Byrne’s network reaches deeper than anyone imagined — into the police, the courts, the corridors of power on two continents. Rose must decide how long she can wait for a man who is slowly being consumed by a case that might consume them both.

In Kampala, parallel threads tighten. Corporate expansion continues. General Otim consolidates power. The conspiracy stretching from Dublin to Uganda demands a reckoning — but the reckoning has a price, and Rose and Tadhg are about to discover exactly what it costs.

“The cottage smelled of turf smoke and the lamb stew that Rose had put on three hours ago, back when she’d still believed Tadhg would be home for dinner.”
— The Mole, Chapter 1
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