The Authorized Version

I am delighted to be able to offer my readers a free copy of my most recent release The Shaping of the Union, Of Plots and Parliaments, Epoch 8 in my Celtic Cross Series. The book will be free today, Sunday, April 3, through Thursday April 7.

Valiant Women Risk All for Ireland

1996, As conflict rages around her, American Mary Hamilton despairs of ever bringing about peace for the young people of Belfast. It was definitely the last straw when the reconciliation center where she and her fiancé Gareth are working was burglarized and Gareth injured. So, if they are leaving, why does Mary still feel so drawn to read their host’s family journal recounting the historic struggles of this land?

1789, Young Lenny Price and her brother join forces with the vibrant McCracken family—an alliance that takes them to the historic Belfast Harp Festival, but more dangerously, involves them with the Peep o’ Day Boys, and then the revolutionary plans of the charismatic Wolfe Tone. Can Lenny uncover the insidious spy bent on bringing all their plans to ruin, even as she harbors a secret message?

I hope you will enjoy this slice of Irish history, perhaps even enough to leave a brief review on Amazon, for which I would be immensely grateful. And I also hope you will enjoy it because my central historical figure Marianne McCracken is related to the family with which my husband’s ancestors emigrated from Ireland to Peterboro, Toronto, Canada, and then, in the next generation chartered a train to take them to settle in Nebraska—in a community they named Canada Hill. After visiting both areas, I posted blogs about the experience: Visit to Peterboro, Canada. Visit to Canada Hill, Nebraska.