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A violent disaster turns an ordinary day at work into a living nightmare for David, a young office worker in central England. As the city falls apart around him, he sets out to find his fiancee Sharon.
The world as David knows it is about to disappear forever. Can he survive what comes after?
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Set in the 1860's, this story follows the misfortunes of Keefer and Collin McNamara, a father and son as they immigrate to America. With a great plan to open a pub and their life savings, they take the gamble and move to Boston, where hopes of glory build up the two men who have seen nothing but tragedy in the last fifteen years. Yet, through a terrible mistake the two grow apart. Only to reunite 8 years later, through murder and madness. Added 10/21/10. http://www.lulu.com/product/file-download/the-celtic-eye/13011079
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An Irish historical romance. It is Ireland in the late 1790s. Caroline is the daughter of the late Irish Chieftain Turlough O'Shaughnessy and is a very beautiful, strong-willed and spirited young woman. As well as having an extremely loving and close relationship with her brother Fergal, she meets and falls in love with the very handsome and dashing Nicholas Arthur Barnsby Marsmain, heir to the Ballinmore estate. However, Nicholas is an officer in the British Army and therefore an obvious enemy of Fergal, who is working secretly with Wolfe Tone and the French on their plans for invading Ireland. This leads inevitably to Caroline being torn between the two of them, which is not helped when she has this strange premonitory dream involving Fergal and Nick, which underlines her dilemma and her fearful realisation that one will probably kill the other some day. http://montware.org/
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(Doubleday, 1985) "Action-crammed, historically factual novel . . . is a rousing read, ably researched by Hoover” Publishers Weekly. Barbados and Jamaica 1648. The lush and deadly Caribbean paradise, domain of rebels and slaveholders, of bawds and buccaneers. Colonists fight a wishful war for freedom against England. http://www.smashwords.com/books/view/22032
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By AD83 the Romans in Caledonia held a line of glen-blocking forts, (now known as the Gask Ridge forts, from Glasgow to Perth) and the three active legions, XXth, IXth and IInd, were split along this defensive line. Calgacus was one of a number of first century Pictish barons; part of a landed class in northern Celt society with access to slaves, money, men and arms. He fixed on the plan to unify the Caledonian Celtic tribes against Rome, beginning with the tribes of the Forth-Clyde area.
After a crushing defeat at a fort along the Roman line, Calgacus tried the following year to bring in all the Pictish tribes, and rallied an army of perhaps sixty thousand men (and women) for the Battle of Mons Graupius. Once Calgacus' lover, Eirbrin has been sent north to her family lands on the Gleann Mor above Inbhir Nis. Fanatical dedication to the fight to free Caledonia from Rome has been her only way to deal with the deep and disabling shames of her past.
When she meets Antony she believes she has found a mystic, a man of power who can help her to overcome the demons of guilt and shame. He is a spy, a Natione - native Britons conscripted to the Roman auxiliary army - used extensively by Agricola in the Caledonian wars, where the Celt's guerrilla tactics and harsh terrain made success near to impossible.
Everything about him should warn Brin of his deception, but her longing to atone, her need to be free of shame, and her growing desire for him allow her to deny or justify any doubts that come. To him, she should be no more than an enemy; and with her ties to the leader of the Picts, a formidable source of information. But as they move through the Caledonian midlands toward the gathering battle, her beauty and courage, her innocence and the unfaltering faith she places in him draw him into an impossible situation.
Trapped between an irresistible love and an immovable duty, he must find a way to untangle his web of lies, or return to a life of service, to live or die alone. http://sites.google.com/site/letitiacoynecaledonia/
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