Hi MK! Thanks so much for having me as your guest
today. I’m so thrilled to be talking about My
Dark Rose, Book III in the Wild Geese Series, which releases later this
month. I hope you’ll love Dary and Róisín, and the rest of the endearing cast
of characters in the book, as much as I do!
My Dark Rose
…Like the Wild
Geese of Old Ireland, five boys grew to manhood despite hunger, war, and the
mean streets of New York…
He was the lucky one…
Dary Greely is the only one of his brothers and
sisters to survive the hunger in Ireland and the coffin ship to America. He was
the one whose parents made a bit of money, the one who emerged from the war
virtually unscathed. He was the lucky one…but when the war ended, his luck ran
out.
She was burdened by too many responsibilities…
Róisín Donavan is an Irish girl who lives in a Five
Points tenement room. She dreams of a future as a great diva and sings Irish
songs at Paddy Ryan's Pub. But her stubborn Irish pride won't allow her to
abandon her family, even if it means sacrificing everything for them.
Can Dary make Róisín see her true worth? Can Róisín
heal the festering wounds that tear at Dary’s soul? And can love truly mend
their grieving hearts?
Watch for My Dark Rose the end of June!
Enjoy an Excerpt
He crushed his mouth to hers once more, and she
gloried in the feel of him, the taste of him. He wasn’t just kissing her. He
was making love to her with his mouth as surely as he would with his body.
She wanted him.
“Rose, Rose.” His mouth wandered down her throat,
nipping and sucking and scrambling her senses. She slid her hands up and around
his shoulders to comb leisurely through the lush, silken strands of his hair.
“My Rose, my beautiful dark Rose.”
Then, just as suddenly, he pulled away, breathing
hard. Capturing her hands in his, he pulled them down to her sides. “Not here,”
he rasped. “Not in the street, where everyone can see us. You deserve better
than that, my Róisín dubh.” He stared
down into her eyes, his face sober. “You deserve everything.”
“Dary…”
“You said you weren’t singing Friday night.”
His abrupt change of subject had her blinking
foolishly. “I… that’s right.”
“Good.” He smiled down at her, smoothing a stray curl
from her cheek.
“Good? Why?”
“Because on Friday night I want you to put on your
prettiest dress. You’ll be dining with me at Delmonico’s.”
Delmonico’s! ’Twas the fanciest restaurant in the
city! “Dary, I—”
“I’d like to ask my friends, Shane and Lydia
MacDermott, to come along to meet you. We’ll have great craic.”
*** Contest! ***
To celebrate the release of My Dark Rose, I’m giving away reader’s
choice of an autographed print copy of Deceptive
Hearts or Keeper of the Light,
the first two books of the Wild Geese Series, to one lucky commenter!
Meet the Author
I believe I was
destined to be interested in history. One of my distant ancestors, Thomas
Aubert, reportedly sailed up the St. Lawrence River to discover Canada some 26
years before Jacques Cartier’s 1534 voyage. Another relative was a 17thCentury
“King’s Girl,” one of a group of young unmarried girls sent to New France (now
the province of Quebec) as brides for the habitants (settlers) there.
My passion for reading
made me long to write books like the ones I enjoyed, and I tried penning sequels
to my favorite Nancy Drew mysteries. Later, fancying myself a female version of
Andrew Lloyd Weber, I drafted a musical set in Paris during WWII.
A former journalist
and lifelong Celtophile, I enjoyed a previous career as a reporter/editor for a
small chain of community newspapers before returning to my first love, romantic
fiction. My stories usually include an Irish setting, hero or heroine, and
sometimes all three.
I’m the author of The
Claddagh Series, historical romances set in Ireland and beyond, and The Wild
Geese Series, in which five Irish heroes return from the American Civil War to
find love and adventure.
I’m a member of the
Romance Writers of America, Hearts Through History Romance Writers,
and Celtic Hearts Romance Writers. A lifelong resident of Montreal,
Canada, I still live there with my own Celtic hero and our two teenaged
children.
