The handsome Brandons

In the windswept hills of rural Ireland, the Brandon family clings to their ancestral home as the old world crumbles around them. Narrated by Hilda, the unassuming daughter who has always lived in the shadow of her striking siblings, the novel traces the family's proud struggle against ruin, not just financial collapse, but the slow erosion of everything they've known. When the ruthless Sir Rupert De Lacy of Castle Angry sets his sights on their land, the Brandons must decide what they are willing to sacrifice to preserve their name and heritage. Aline stands as the family's unwavering center, while brother Pierce wanders ever farther, and the twins, Hugh, Donald, and Esther each carry their own private hopes and griefs. Tynan writes with fierce tenderness about the bonds that both sustain and constrain us, the loves we cannot speak, and the losses we survive. This is a novel about what it costs to belong to something larger than yourself, and whether the price is worth paying.