A Cornish Love Series by LTR Durkin

In this cataclysmic finale, the warring dynasties of A Cornish Love face a reckoning that rivals the scope of Ken Follett and the raw, elemental fury of Poldark.The story begins not with love, but with toxic dynastic politics . Anya Trenoweth, a "woman of science and morality", is a pawn in a game of ruin. To save her broken father from the gallows, she is blackmailed into a "forced, corrupt union" with the brutal Trevelyan heir—the saboteur brother of the man she loves... moreIn this cataclysmic finale, the warring dynasties of A Cornish Love face a reckoning that rivals the scope of Ken Follett and the raw, elemental fury of Poldark.The story begins not with love, but with toxic dynastic politics . Anya Trenoweth, a "woman of science and morality", is a pawn in a game of ruin. To save her broken father from the gallows, she is blackmailed into a "forced, corrupt union" with the brutal Trevelyan heir—the saboteur brother of the man she loves .But Anya and Rhys, now both outcasts "stripped of family and name", have formed a "desperate partnership" . Trusting each other to betray everyone else, they "design a Third Way"—a meticulous engineering plan to save their town, bypassing both corrupt patriarchs .Their plan, however, collides with a terrifying reality. Anya realizes the slimes pond is not just cracked; it is about to fail now . Her "unheeded calculation" is dismissed by the town elders as "feminine hysteria", a desperate ploy to escape her marriage.What follows is a symphony of chaos. The "tidal wave of toxic mud" unleashed by the dam's collapse "collides with a bloody, subterranean firefight" as the Revenue springs its final trap on the French spies .In the middle of the apocalypse, the Trevelyan heir attacks Rhys with suicidal fury . But Kynan Trenoweth, a "broken man", finds a "heart-wrenching, redemptive final act" . He saves Rhys—the man his daughter loves—and is "consumed by the very earth he exploited", grappling with his enemy as the mine buries them both, ending the dynastic war forever .The boom is over. The corrupt heirs are gone. In a scarred land, Rhys and Anya are the only ones left who can rebuild. Their "happily ever after is not an escape. It is the hard, joyful work" of creating a new world , finally proving that competence and character will outlast blood and pride. less