The eighth book
in the
Celtic Journeys series, DAUGHTER
OF
GOLD, is an October 2004 release from Leisure LoveSpell
and remains available in bookstores everywhere.
Niamh (neev) is a beautiful young woman traveling with her simple farm family to the Lughnasa Fair, the great summer gathering of five kingdoms. Everyone goes to the Fair to trade horses, compete in sports and games, and find partners for love and for marriage. Niamh, too, hopes to find a man to love and marry, but is determined to find the right one. She will ask him what three things a woman wants most from the man in her life, and will accept no man unless he can answer her riddle.
Bryan, a noble-born man of the Fianna, is at the Fair to prove his worth to become the next king -- but he has a rival for the kingship and their competition could prove deadly, for no bloodshed is allowed at the Fair on pain of death. Bryan and Niamh are soon drawn together, but Bryan is a man who does not want a permanent marriage -- except, perhaps, to get a queen when he becomes king -- and Niamh is sure she could never leave her forest home for the high solid walls of a king's fortress.
But when the wild, dangerous, and supernatural
creature called the puca begins
plaguing the Fair, Bryan and Niamh must work together to solve the
mystery of this terrifying beast. And when Bryan's rivalry for
the kingship ends in a death, his life will depend on his own courage,
his love for Niamh, and her ability to charm the monster known as the puca.
EXTRA!
KEEPER
OF THE LIGHT SPIRIT OF
THE MIST SISTER OF THE MOON
Historical/Fantasy
Romance
Historical/Fantasy
Romance
Historical/Fantasy Romance
January 2003
July
2002
December 2001
MISTRESS OF THE WATERS
QUEEN OF THE SUN
LADY OF FIRE
Time-Travel
Romance
Time-Travel
Romance
Time-Travel Romance
May
1999
July
1998
August 1996
My writing career began in 1984 when I sold the first of over 100 non-fiction articles written for the national and regional horse magazines. A few years later, a friend and I decided to try our hand at novels. We wrote three and sold the third one, APRIL'S CHRISTMAS, to Avalon Books in 1994.
My own first novel was LADY OF FIRE, a time-travel romance published by Leisure Books in 1996. I've always had a great interest in Ireland, history, horses and fantasy, and truly enjoy combining all these things in my novels.
I now live in beautiful Arizona with my family, my cat, and my five-gaited American Saddlebred pleasure horse . . . and I know that “home” is with the people you love, no matter where that may be.
E-mail your address to me and I'll be happy to send you autographed bookplates.