|
|
|  | | Casting Off
Nautical Fiction
Ireland, West Coast.
Meg, in a moment of madness, throws caution to the wind. Too late, she discovers she's cast off a lot more than merely a life of drudgery.
Naively believing anyone can sail, she flees from Scullymór in Connor Gorman's thirty-two foot sloop. After a horrific week lost at sea, she is washed up on a barren island where an unexpected discovery puts her in far more danger than she ever thought possible. Only one person can help her....
ONE
Cool Atlantic waters swirled around her bare feet; the ocean swell, barely perceptible within the sheltered inlet, rose and fell against the slick wooden pilings. Meg shuddered as an icy current suddenly snaked about her calves, a sharp contrast to milder Gulf Stream coastal temperatures. Further along, on the pontoon at the end of the short pier, the yacht strained to go with the tide. The ropes groaned in protest every time the ocean sucked greedily at the hull.
From where she sat, the plump straw-haired woman could see the smooth slope of manicured lawn sweep up towards the | |  | | Making Tracks (Peggy Does A Runner)
Making Tracks is a journey of discovery set in rural Ireland. A potpourri of suspense, humour, colourful Irish dialogue and a touch of romance.
SYNOPSIS
Fresh out of college, Peggy Fitzpatrick and a couple of friends decide to escape Dublin city and let out the lead in the North Clare coastal village of Ballydereen. Up to their ears in sleeping bags and bottles of Mediterranean plonk, four of them set off. Three come back.
Perched precariously on a bar stool in Mullen's pub, Peggy first claps eyes on a local man, Patrick Cunningham. He's the one, she thinks, and is suddenly a married mother whiling away endless days in bungalow bliss on a small housing estate overlooking Galway Bay.
Now, forty years old and still a f | |  | | Over The Wall
Over The Wall is an intricate tragicomic tale of three women caught in a web of unforeseen love, rejection, discovery, loss and finally, hope.
Growing up and growing old. These two side effects of life creep up on Finnula ‘Fudge’ Ginnane and her mother, Mary, simultaneously, yet while the pubescent country girl is helped through this confusing time by her best friend, Lilly McDermott , the older woman must face advancing age and the heartache of a secret relationship alone. This tragicomic tale spins a web of unforeseen love, rejection, discovery, loss and finally, hope. | |  | | There & Back
Gwen Sullivan explores the life of her sister Tessie, a
woman whose destiny is laid down by law—Murphy’s Law.
Watching her stumble from one calamity to the next,
Gwen struggles to pick up the pieces, unaware that the
tragicomic tale is no longer just Tessie’s, but also her own.
While her career as a dentist in the late eighties appearsbr />
promising, Tessie’s life changes abruptly when a mix-up atbr />
work leads to serious consequences. Hoping to find peacebr />
of mind, she goes on a skiing holiday to Yugoslavia where shebr />
becomes involved with a military pilot—and that at a timebr />
when the Balkan States are teetering on the brink of war.br />
|
|
|
|
Soldier's Gap
by David Schwinghammer
|
 Deputy Dave Jenkins investigates the murder of local high school principal, Jerry Egge, but this is a multi-faceted novel that deals with spiritualism, romance, friendship, and children who fall through the cracks.
"Murder isn't usually this |
Member BookAds
|
|
|
|
