Newly Released Short Stories
River and Stone Anthology
I am proud to have a short story in the River and Stone anthology, a collection that honors the essence of West Virginia. Through fictional narratives, the authors depict the spirit of the mountain state, drawing readers in like a gentle current.
Second Chance Christmas
Second Chance Christmas
Fraternal twins Seline and Owen Harrington were separated at ten years old when their parents divorced. Seline went to live with her mom in Virginia, and Owen went to live with his dad in London. In their senior year of high school, the twins secretly conspired to apply to Oxford University without letting their estranged parent know. They were both accepted. At the end of their first semester at Oxford, Owen admits to his dad, Reece Harrington, that he and Seline are attending the same university. With Reece in Canada on business until Christmas, Owen insists on spending Christmas with Seline and their mom at the farm in Virginia. At first, Reece Harrington agrees to this arrangement, but it isn’t long before he has second thoughts. He invites himself to the farm to set matters straight. His decision thrusts the family on a course that nobody expects.
Cupid's Strings
Prudence Velcray has known only heartbreak on Valentine’s Day. To protect her heart this Valentine’s Day, she ends the romance with her boyfriend before she is dealt another crushing blow.
Home IN My Heart
HOME IN MY HEART
Maggie Guirdano leaves a high-paying job in Pittsburgh to start a winery in the Virginia countryside. She almost fails, but for the elderly owner of Lake Hollow Farm, who steps in to help her. Four years later, her winery is thriving, but Carl Snyder’s health is failing. Before he passes, Carl gives Maggie a private document to ensure the future of the vineyard he helped her get started on leased land at Lake Hollow Farm. She loses the document, putting her vineyard in jeopardy.
Complicating matters is Jerrold Snyder, Carl’s great-nephew and heir to Lake Hollow Farm. To acquire his inheritance, he must spend two months there, as instructed in his great-uncle’s will. Jerrold moved three thousand miles away to forget his past and has no intention of complying with Carl’s request.
As Maggie struggles to save her vineyard and Jerrold battles old demons, can they fight their attraction for each other?
A Romance novel set in Virginia
KILPARA
1st Book in the O'Donovan Family Saga"
KILPARA is a beautiful story. . ."--Manhattan Book Review
Ellis O'Donovan, the son of Irish emigrants, Ann and Angus O'Donovan, is called away from his bachelor life in post-civil war Baltimore. He returns home to rural Maryland to find his mother seriously ill from consumption. She implores him to take her back to Ireland to see Kilpara one last time, the estate once owned by the O'Donovans for over three hundred years.
After much quarreling, Ellis gives in to his mother's request and arrives in Ireland to find Kilpara ruled by overlords, a fact that hasn't changed since his parents left a generation ago. Lord Purcenell, an obstinate Englishman, denies Ellis' mother her wish and thrusts Ellis into the maelstrom between the strife-ridden Irish who want to see an O'Donovan reinstated at Kilpara, the English lord whose word is law, and Ellis' growing attraction for his nemesis' daughter.
CORRIB RED
CORRIB RED
The 2nd Book in the O'Donovan Family Saga
"UNEXPECTED and CAPTIVATING"
-Midwest Book Review
Grace welcomes her sister, Deirdre, home after a year abroad. Instead of finding her sister worldlier, Deirdre is moody and listless. Unbeknownst to Grace, Deirdre is concealing a well-guarded secret. When Cecil Sloane discovers Deirdre's secret, He demands her hand in marriage for his silence. A price so dear it shakes the O'Donovans to their core and tests Grace's courage and loyalty and threatens her very survival.
2nd Irish/American historical novel about the O'Donovan family set in the 1800's
AUNJEL
Baltimore 1895
Aunjel is the third novel in the O'Donovan family saga series. Aunjel’s career at the Metropole Gentlemen’s Club unravels when the singer injures a U.S. congressman with a near-fatal knife wound, after he drunkenly accosts her onstage. Her life spirals further downward from the news that her mother is critically ill. Aunjel rushes to her mother’s home at Stonebridge House, an estate owned by the O’Donovans in Maryland.
Before her death, her mother confesses that Ellis, one of three O’Donovan brothers, now living in Ireland, is Aunjel’s biological father. Left with no family and unable to return to Baltimore, Aunjel accepts Ellis O’Donovan’s offer to become a governess to his granddaughter at Kilpara in Ireland. When an elusive enemy threatens the O’Donovan family, Ellis’s daughter, Grace, suspects the new governess.
Is Grace correct in her assumption, or are other forces seeking vengeance against the O’Donovans, and even Aunjel herself?
HEARTS APART
Two hearts where one love begins
Leslie Maitland, a well-established doctor at Chicago General, returns home to live with her grandmother in the quiet town of Craicsville, Kentucky, after her broken relationship with long-time lover Paul Packett. Her homecoming is upended when she discovers aspiring politician Travis Winston has ingratiated himself in her grandmother’s life. His constant presence grates on Leslie’s apolitical nerves and dashes her hopes of a tranquil existence as the town’s newest doctor.
Against her will, she is plunged into a political firestorm that forces her to confront a childhood tragedy in her past. Redemption means placing her trust in the very man she despises.
