Showing results by author "Helen Walsh" in Historical Fiction

Fianna Fitzmichael is hopelessly in love with Jamie Rooney. So when he mysteriously vanishes, she’s beside herself. Hoping a visit to her sister in London will put her broken heart on the mend, Fianna catches a train—and the unwelcome attention of a lecherous man. Though a kind university student named Neill McBride comes to her rescue, the headstrong Fianna still falls prey to a mob of gypsies who steal her luggage and abandon her by the cave of Crazy Nan, a self-professed witch.

Through the centuries, the good folk in Ireland have grown pleasant traditions and habits to celebrate the birth of the Christ Child during Christmas. However, Christmas in Ireland does not just celebrate one or two special days; Christmas lasts 12 days, and perhaps even a little bit longer. An Irish Christmas and the Storyteller, set in 1894, introduces one of the many country villages in Ireland and the eager villagers' preparations to get ready days and weeks ahead.

Brandeen lived with her tender-hearted mother, Peig, in the town of Cullymor, Ireland. However, it was not at all pleasant. She was considered illegitimate and treated horribly by the town folk. When she learns of her father's return, she burns with anger and resentment. Brandeen resents this estranged father who forces her away from her secure little cottage home into an uncomfortable manor house and dangerous circumstances that repeatedly threaten her life.

Caitleen McNeill's goal was to escape the poverty and starvation of her childhood. Kells Fitzmichael's mission was to own his own sailing ships. However, within minutes of meeting, they were forced into a marriage of inconvenience from which the binds grew as tangled as a Celtic knot. Each had to survive as they traveled across a nation filled with torture, intrigue, betrayal and death as the Rebellion of 1798 broke out and trusted friends became, sometimes, a worse danger than the enemy.