English Irish

Absalom “Abbie” Kearney grew up an outsider in her own hometown. Even being the adopted daughter of a revered cop couldn’t keep Abbie’s troubled past from making her a misfit in the working-class Irish American enclave of South Buffalo. And now, despite a Harvard degree and a police detective’s badge, she still struggles to earn the respect and trust of those she’s sworn to protect. But all that may change, once the killing starts.

Perched on the edge of the roaring Irish Sea, Kilcashel House was somewhere New Yorker Katie never imagined she would live. But when her partner Harry dies suddenly with a diamond engagement ring in his top pocket, Katie is shocked to learn that he has left a house in Ireland to her. But that is not the only secret Harry was keeping. Katie soon learns that Harry also left the house to his ex-wife Maggie.

Tobyn Reyes believed his grandmother's spell would protect him. Instead it opened the door to a new realm of magic and immortality... Tobyn was a man like no other: half Irish, half Spanish gypsy and all chovihano. Under the protection of his grandmother's spell, he enjoyed the glow of his own uniqueness. That glow caught the attention of another uncommon man, the vampire Michel Dumas.

The follow-up to J.A. Cummings's Nightchild finds Tobyn and Araminah Reyes in London, England. After Tobyn takes a keen interest in a young nobleman, Ara tries to keep the Kris family functioning. As Tobyn's obsession takes hold, enemies old and new begin to emerge.

Erin O'Toole is no stranger to violence. Growing up surrounded by one of the most powerful gangs in New York, Erin learned how to survive. But when her little brother is killed in a gang war, Erin swears she'll never be part of her father's world. Desperate to escape the pain of her loss and a future she doesn't want, she risks everything to become a mail-order bride.

Luella Murphy and her parents set out to start a new life in the gold rush town of Sacramento, California that was until Luella’s parents passed away on board the ship. Luella (Lilly) decided to continue on, although she was incredibly young there was little else to do. After years of punishing and demanding work, she finally found a tent saloon to work at.

The Apocalypse was not supposed to rest on Jessica Norgren's shoulders. When the struggling law clerk finds herself pregnant with no possible human father, she learns more than she ever wanted to know about angels and demons. With her best friend, Tsung Li, to help her navigate this tough new terrain, she finds herself mixed up with Watchers, archangels, succubi, athletes and Buddhist monks in a confusing melange of hope and fear.

If Sarah Mercer had ever been asked to describe herself in one word, it would be sensible. After all, she had a steady job. Made prudent decisions. Was in what she though was a logical relationship. But when her fiance dumps her for an exotic dancer, Sarah decides it's time to change . . . everything! The first thing on her agenda? To get out of town and take a three month trip to Ireland.

Mum and Dad are always delighted when the Aunties visit. In this story, Auntie Dee and Auntie Di take their nephews, Tommy and Teddy, to the supermarket to pick up the educational items that the boys need—sweets and Zombies are on the list.

Yeah, I'm cocky. I have a reason to be. Women love me and not just because I play for one of the most popular rock bands in the world, but because I know exactly how to make a woman's body sing in ways she never thought possible.

I went searching for trouble and I found it. I just didn’t expect to find it in the form of Cillian Gallagher. The gorgeously tatted lead singer and guitarist of Wild Irish, Cillian is everything I’ve always tried to stay away from. He’s wild and dangerous. And exactly what I need to cross off number four on my bucket list. Kiss a complete stranger. It should have been that simple. But I wasn't prepared for the scorching heat that would ignite a passion, leaving us both gasping for air.

Black Irish Blues is the return-to-origin story of Caesar Stiles, an erstwhile runaway who returns to his hometown with plans to buy the town's only tavern and end his family's Sicilian curse.

Andy Burke is as witty as he is hard working, even if he is Only an Irish Boy!

In this award-winning collection, listeners will find spellbinding stories of loss, absence, and the devastating effects of chance - of what happens when the unthinkable bad luck of other people, of other towns, becomes our bad luck, our town. Taut, lucid, and engrossing, provocative and dark - and often darkly funny - these stories have much to offer the lover of literary fiction as well as the listener who just loves a great story.

May Ivory can’t understand why her life has been so terrible lately. It seems that fate itself has turned on her.… She would be horrified to know that her problems are man-made, and May is only one of four who are being tormented.... The result of a new gun control study by the CIA. Her three visits per week to the shooting range have put May on an exclusive list of people that are being monitored for gun violence. Unfortunately, the ambitious politician who runs the program cannot afford to wait for her to go insane through natural causes, so he uses CIA agents lurking in the darkness to turn her life upside down.

Many little girls in Ireland borrow the dresses for their first holy communion from their big sisters or cousins. This is the tale of Maureen, a girl who finds that her cousin's beautiful dress just does not fit her. She comes up with a clever, so she thinks, solution to the problem.

It is first holy cmmunion time in Ireland. Good things are happening in Kathleen's school. The children in the holy communion class are doing a project on Latin America. It seems like a good idea, especially as Pope Francis comes from Latin America. The children each take a country and prepare a presentation. It sounds simple. But will Nessa, the little rich girl, make things difficult with her project on Peru? Hmm...probably!

Anna dives into the dark underworld of drug lords, gangs, and killers. She quickly becomes known as the Red Bitch with a price on her head. Can she live her daytime young innocent life, and still survive her dark underworld?

Cynthia, a 12-year-old child, finds herself living alone in a gritty neighborhood of flophouses, bars, and drug dealers. Violence is her path to survival. The cartel recruits her into the underground world of drugs, guns, violence, and betrayal. Cynthia rises in the organization to become the only woman enforcer. She learns to love only to find that her loved ones die a horrible death. Can she survive in her kill or be killed world?

During the 12th century, the people of Ireland came under the sway of the English, who had extended into their domain. With every subsequent century, English dominion in the land gradually expanded, leading to the exceedingly harsh treatment of native Irish populations at the hands of English settlers. The Tudor period was especially tumultuous, with Elizabeth I waging a notoriously expensive conquest against the Irish in the waning years of her reign.