Set in 1898 Ireland, singer January Buchanan finds herself embarking on a life-changing journey when she decides to tie her future two American recording entrepreneurs.
Short Story Prequel/Winds of Change Series. “Wild as a March hare in spring!” That’s how many of the villagers in 1898 Bunratty, Ireland describe the adventuresome January Cola Buchanan. But she doesn’t care. She has the voice of an angel and the looks of a siren and she intends to make the most of her talents. So when two American entrepreneurs come to Ireland scouting singing talent to record on their new phonograph discs, she sets her sights on returning with them to America. But first she must convince her longtime beau John McLaren that this is a good idea for both of them knowing that they might never see their homeland or their families again.
Based on the memoirs of a Pearl Harbor survivor. Letters from two pen pals take the reader on a journey into the past, a past where nightmares came true, and when hatred reigned.
Autumn 1940. Germany invades Britain. Newport is blitzed. Danny O’Shea’s house is bombed, his wife is killed. While taking his young son Adam to neutral Ireland, they witness an attack on a German convoy. The result is brutal.