THE BOOKS
Patrick the Third
Patrick III: A Quest TaleWhen three generations of Mahoney women converge from various points in the United States to travel together to Newfoundland it’s to trace their roots at the request of the family matriarch, Gran. It should be the trip of a lifetime for this extended family totaling six. Except the youngest member of the entourage, Gwen, starts the journey with knots in her stomach at the thought of spending two weeks with her controlling, disapproving mother, Maude. She isn’t making much of a success of adult life and decides the only safe topics of conversation with her mother are religion and politics. Gwen arrives in Canada armed with guide books, ready to serve as guide. As a perpetual student, research is her strength. Only Gran seems hell-bent on avoiding any notable tourist attractions. It’s like Gran is on a quest of her own, unwilling to reveal her true intent and frustrating her family as she drags them to the Hall of Records and then to every backwater town on the island. Starting from day one, Gwen is intrigued by the handsome stranger who shows up at their every stop along the way. Her connection to him hits her like a physical pain. He’s mysterious, and she can’t get a read on him. At each encounter her impression of him shifts like sands on a beach. Against the backdrop of family dynamics, sibling rivalry, the rules of attraction, and long-buried family secrets, Patrick III is a tale told in the quest story tradition. All the characters are on a quest, though some don’t know it until they actually find what they’ve been looking for.
​Margarita and the Hired Gun
Pampered Margarita McIntosh is not used to being forced to do things she doesn’t want to do—but when her father, Jock, sends her away for her own safety, she has no choice. The long journey from Flagstaff to Durango tests her personal strength of will as never before, and the secret she carries in her saddlebag could be the death of her.
Love with an Expiration Date: The Selkie Series Book I Dublin
ASIN: B00TIYYGRW
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When Amanda McBride, takes a temporary teaching position in Dublin, she is also departing her comfortable, well-structured life in America. At a party she meets a charismatic, handsome filmmaker, Des Costello, whose unconventional style marks him as the kind of man she avoids. What she can’t avoid, however, is the strong attraction they have for each other.
Informed the pretty girl he’s set his sights on comes with an expiration date, Des finds the American even more desirable. He’s only interested in casual encounters and getting his career off the ground. He sets off determined to seduce Amanda, while she is just as determined not to fall prey to the advances of this charming but questionable suitor.
Succumbing to their mutual sexual desires, they find their connection is anything but casual, setting Des off on a new campaign of seduction. And he’s playing for keeps. Amanda is faced with losing him and returning to her secure and familiar life or risking all for the man with a mysterious past and uncertain future.
Love Across The Pond: The Selkie Series Book II Dublin
ASIN: B00UU0AN8O
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For reconciled international lovers Amanda and Des, being together means one of them will have to make a sacrifice. Amanda agrees to move to Dublin when her teaching contract in Boston ends. To ease the pain of separation they plan frequent trips in their schedules when they can be together. Amanda will use the intervening months to secure a position in Dublin. At least that's the plan.
They embark on this new stage of their romance with resolve, but for Amanda life is getting in the way. Problems she thought she’d walked away from resurface, demanding her attention. Her life with Des in Ireland is feeling more distant with each passing day and their physical separation leads to mutual jealousies and frustration. Des fears Amanda’s commitment is not as strong as his own. His resulting temper flares and controlling behavior become difficult for her to deal with.
Des puts his dream of being an independent filmmaker on hold when he accepts a job offering more stability. Now that he's won her, he doesn't want to give her cause to regret her decision. Soon he discovers working for someone else requires him to make sacrifices of his own. He’s troubled by a job that stifles his creativity, especially when there are strings attached. One string in particular puts further strain on their relationship.
Love And The Happily Ever After: The Selkie Series Book III Dublin
ASIN: B00YPPRATK
Sexy, funny couple Amanda and Des are embarking on married life and parenthood. They've gone through so much to be together, including being tested by a long distance relationship. Now they've finally achieved their goal of the Happily Ever After.
Amanda, has given up her homeland and career, and loves her new job at an art museum. In Dublin, Amanda couldn't shake the feeling she was being followed. Personal items had gone missing and new things began appearing in the baby’s pram. Convincing Des his beloved Dublin may not be the best place to raise children they find a house in the country.
Owning a piece of her adopted land cements Amanda's sense of belonging. Des, however, is having a hard time adjusting to country life and he’s dissatisfied with work, directing movies for a production company. Everyone wonders when he'll make another independent film, but now that he has a family to support and a house to pay for, it's hard to walk away from a steady paycheck.
Married life with an active toddler is demanding enough: there are the squabbles over domestic arrangements, a compromised sex life, interfering in-laws, and the challenge of juggling two careers to test their love; all the usual pitfalls of domestic bliss. But something else is going on. Amanda starts to wonder what happened to the man she fell in love with as her husband becomes gloomy and self-destructive.
Enter a handsome, talented photographer, Eamon Kelly, who reminds her of Des when they first met. He doesn't try to hide his attraction to her. She is titillated though fearful of his attentions. She would like to avoid him all together, only now she has to work closely with him on an exhibition. Now things are starting to disappear again, this time from her office.
On the home front, tensions rise. Faced with the growing disconnect in her marriage, Amanda makes a drastic choice that will either bring them together or tear them farther apart.
The Wild West gets even wilder when Nat Tremayne sends out his agents from Psychic Specters Investigations offices in St. Louis and Denver. Across country and across time, these agents will stop at nothing to unravel the mysteries that beset poor unsuspecting ranchers and cowboys who have no idea what they're seeing . . .or not, as the case may be.
In The Ghost and The Bridegroom, P.S.I. Agent Healy Harrison is sent to Tucson to rid a rancher of the ghost in the bedroom interfering in his marriage to a mail-order bride. Healy doesn't think she's destined for romance--until she meets Pinkerton detective Aaron Turrell. But when their two cases dovetail, will their newfound love survive the ultimate showdown between mortal and immortal.
In Long A Ghost and Far Away, agent Dudley Worksop aims to unravel the mystery of Colby Gates' dead wife. Lizzie not only seems to have reappeared as a ghost, but has time traveled from 2016 to the 1800s. Can revenge be had for her murder? And can the couple be reunited across country and across time?
These stories originally appeared in The Good, The Bad, and The Ghostly.
Smoke Damage
ISBN-68-3459876038524
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Smoke Damage is a work of narrative nonfiction whose heroine, a young mother raising children in a post-9/11 world, recounts growing up in circumstances where all that was stable and familiar change drastically, but in ways closer to home. When one parent retreats into chronic illness and alcoholism, the other takes on a secret lifestyle, leaving the narrator to cope with issues beyond her age
It seems like Harmony and Alice have been best friends forever. They are of a same mind, and he can talk to her about anything—anything except the fact that he's fallen in love with the young woman she's become. He's so in love, he's speechless in her presence. But his sister, Melody, has a plan. Harmony sends Alice an anonymous declaration of his love, promising to reveal himself at the Valentine's Day dance. What could go wrong?
When Caleb sees Ella step off the train, it is love at first sight. Only, Caleb is not the groom Ella has traveled halfway across the country to marry. Caleb is a quiet man who always tries to do the right thing, so when he and his brother’s wife give into temptation, he leaves the family ranch for good. Only a cryptic letter from Ella asking him to come home to Montana for Christmas can bring him back.
Seeing signs the woman he loves is being mistreated and the broken beauty of her STORE-BOUGHT ORNAMENTS triggers a series of dark memories to surface, steeling him for action. Can Caleb stand up to the brother who has bullied him his whole life in order to save Ella?
Melody Evans grew up as the only child of a single mother, never putting down roots. Instead, they carried family traditions from home to home, none more precious than those surrounding Christmas. Romance? Melody has put a wall around her wounded heart and turned a cynical eye to the concept of happily ever after, despite making a living as a wedding planner.
Veterinarian Leland Jennings IV has roots long and deep at his family’s ranch in South Dakota. What he lacks, according to his meddlesome sister, is someone to settle down with. But he holds on to the unwavering belief that there is only one woman out there for him. Christmas? It’s a holiday for children, not a bachelor living alone.
Once Melody and Leland get over their initial animosity, they come together like two pieces of a puzzle, sparking emotions and nostalgic memories that bring magic to the holiday season. But when tragedy strikes, will their budding romance become a case of the right person at the wrong time, or will they forge a new path together?
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When his identical twin brother is arrested, the Pinkerton Detective Agency enlists Wynne Palmatier to go undercover and impersonate his outlaw brother, Ennis. His mission is to infiltrate his brother’s gang. Ennis tells Wynne everything he needs to know. Except for one thing: there are two women with the outlaws, and one of them is his wife.
Lucy House is still paying for the day she strayed away from decency. Now the handsome outlaw she ran away with has lost his appeal and she longs to get away from this life. As the danger mounts, can Wynne and Lucy escape this den of thieves?