Newest Release! No Hero’s Welcome!
Purchase BookAn unflappable Irish widow resolves to carry on no matter what and keep her loved ones safe under her watchful eye…
Family secrets. Family strife. A lively pub in the Coombe. Sometimes you don’t see what’s right in front of you. Sometimes you see too much. Sometimes attempting to repair and unite your family can bring you to the brink of disaster. But unflinching Eda Brannigan tirelessly dedicates herself to the challenge as her children and her homeland tangle in unforeseen ways.
No Hero’s Welcome:
Unity Amidst Division
The horrors of the First World War devastated many a Dublin family and the Brannigans weren’t spared. Struggling to get past their heartache, the family finds itself divided by both the rebellion against British rule and the wide Atlantic. Devoted matriarch Eda Brannigan witnesses her family unraveling. Sean and Molly make startling choices with potentially lethal consequences. Francis steeps in a drunken angry stupor. Young Brandon is so eerily quiet. Eda desperately wishes her beloved firstborn, Deirdre, wasn’t living so far away. But with a determined resolve, Eda soldiers on in her bustling pub, The Gallant Fusilier, where tragedy, triumph and even love unfold. Can this family endure the violence and intrigue of the Easter Rising, the bloody struggle for independence, and a bitter civil war?
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They were certain doing their duty in France would change everything at home…
After surviving the Somme, American Ned Tobin remains in France with an officer’s commission, a safe training post and the captivating Adèle Chéreaux on his arm. Upended by the U.S. entry into the War, he’s called home to train the woefully unprepared Americans while Adèle flees the last German advance.
Young Harlem lawyer Chester Dawkins embarks for France anxious to prove himself, leaving behind his sister, Lena, with crippling family debt.
When Ned returns to France with Chester’s regiment, can these men overcome long-held prejudices and find common cause? When the fighting ends, how do all four face an uncertain future?
Journey through avant-garde Paris, Prohibition-era Harlem and newly independent Ireland in a heart-wrenching yet hopeful story of love and loss in Truly Are the Free.
Truly Are the Free:
Rebuilding Lives Undone
Ned Tobin leaves his Newfoundland comrades to join the American forces in 1917. Chester Dawkins, son of an affluent African-American family, joins a newly formed regiment destined for France. They both confront their long-held assumptions and prejudices when Ned is assigned as a white officer to Chester’s “colored” regiment, the 369th. Meanwhile, sister Lena Dawkins secretly chooses an unsavory path to keep her family’s Harlem home. And Ned’s beloved, the alluring Adèle Chéreaux, carries a secret of her own as she flees the Germans to an uncertain future in Paris. In Truly Are the Free, the second book of the Sweet Wine of Youth Trilogy, these intriguing characters from None of Us the Same and some surprising new ones come vividly to life. How do the soldiers of the 369th endure the unspeakable horror? What new relationships lie ahead in Jazz-Age Harlem and avant-garde Paris? Can Ned and Adèle find happiness together?
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Sweet Wine of Youth: A Historical Trilogy
I’m excited to bring you my complete trilogy set during and after the First World War, an epoch of unprecedented violence and social change. I invite you to join in the exploration of lives dramatically impacted by the bloody, long war. Through my vivid characters and rich historical settings, I hope that you’ll be drawn into the compelling struggle.
None of Us the Same:
Hope in the Devastation
Feisty Deirdre Brannigan hated the very idea of war in 1914. Newfoundlanders Jack Oakley and Will Parsons thought it a grand adventure. They and their lifelong pals head off to war with visions of glory and a rapid return home. Racked with guilt after a terrible loss, Deirdre joins the war effort as a nurse. Their paths cross as the War’s relentless cruelty bears down. How did it all go so horribly wrong? When the guns fall silent, can Deirdre overcome her lingering guilt through a new life with Jack, himself battered and trying to forge a place for them at the edge of a wounded Empire now at peace? Can shell-shocked Will bear the weight of his family’s expectations back in Newfoundland? Their way forward is fraught with guilt, family intrigue, and ill-advised choices yet tinged with blossoming love and acceptance. Can they move past their shared history of suffering and loss?
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