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In the Scottish folktale of the Selkie, a seal woman climbs out of the sea by dark to strip off her outer layers and dance on the shore. Overcome by her beauty, a man hides her skin so she will be forced to stay on land with him. But the Selkie woman is gripped by a powerful longing, spending her days with her face turned towards the sea.
In Song of the Selkie, each of the three McFarland sisters follows suit, journeying from her “captive” self back to her wild more authentic nature. The youngest sister, Frances, has eschewed the life of the body in pursuit of status as a professor in an Ivy League college in America.
On the brink of securing tenure, she goes back to Scotland where she is forced to confront a part of herself that has all this time been in a death slumber. By contrast, her sister Lala, the “sexy one,” moves from man to man, in an endless quest for the creative person she always thought she could be. And the oldest sister, Eddie, bides her time among the fishermen she serves in the local pub, drawn by some inexplicable force back to the small island of Roansay from which their dead mother hailed.
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When the three sisters converge in their childhood home on the pagan festival of Hogmanay, all manner of demons from the past are set to let loose.
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Sometimes a one-way ticket to Scotland gives you more than you’d bargained for.
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The entire rural town of Locharbert is abuzz because Hollywood director Steve McNaught is moving in. Putting two failed marriages, three sons, and a drinking problem behind him, he embarks on a quest for the uncomplicated life of his ancestors in the home of his distant relative, Mrs. McPhealy.
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But from the start, the newcomer is eyed with suspicion, not least by ex-hippy and local midwife, Georgie. Drawing on his well-honed charm, Steve tries to woo her, and though there is spark, she sends him packing… until she doesn’t. Everything would be on track, if Steve could only lose his tendency to see the world through a camera lens, if only
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the funny local characters, like the tinkers on the shore or the randy postmistress, weren’t begging to be put on the screen. George warns him against turning her town into a film set, but the die is already cast. He makes matters worse by buying up the dilapidated cottage by the shore where George grew up and which she has always hoped to restore. Rejected and dejected, his drinking back in full swing, he packs up his film reels and returns to California.
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And then, months later, in the daft days of Hogmanay, Steve reappears, sober and brandishing his newly edited film. T
The secret life of Locharbert is about to tumble out.
THE VEIL OF TIME SERIES - Book 1
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The fog Maggie’s seizure medication induces has numbed her over the years to a bad marriage but cannot ease the pain of the recent loss of her young daughter to the same affliction. With her life crumbling about her, she flees to a cottage at the base of Dunadd Fort, once the royal seat of Scotland, but now in ruins. As the pills she should be taking accumulate in a saucer on the kitchen counter, Maggie’s reality begins to shift out of the present and back to the 8th century heyday of the fort, where Queen Brighde reigns with her two sons. Murdoch, her heir, is unyielding and imperious, but the younger son, Fergus, who still suffers from the loss of his wife, is a kinder man. It is he who takes in this strange-looking creature that appears at the gates of the fort and whom he comes to call mo chridhe, my heart. Maggie is smitten, not only by Fergus but by his young daughter, who reminds her so much of her own. But Maggie’s travel back to ancient Dunadd is limited by her seizures, and threatened altogether by a looming surgery that promises to end Maggie’s time drift for good.
For more information on the real Dunadd, visit http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunadd
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THE VEIL OF TIME SERIES - Book 2
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In this sequel to Veil Of Time, a seizure-free Maggie has come to accept that her visits to the 8th century world of Prince Fergus have come to an end. More than five years have elapsed, her son is now studying at Oxford, and she has finally entered into a new marriage. Everything feels settled in her world. But while she and her new husband are driving past the ancient village of Scone in Perthshire, she has a sudden flashback. During a late-night visit to the ancient graveyard behind the village, Maggie once again steps out of her own time and back into the arms of Fergus. Far from his native Dunadd, Fergus now lives in Scone with his brother Murdoch and his mother under the aegis of Pictish King Oengus. When the church promises to crown Murdoch king in return for his help in overthrowing Oengus, Maggie and Fergus are forced to flee.
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THE VEIL OF TIME SERIES - Book 3
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In this final book in the Veil Of Time trilogy, the conflict between the Christians and the Picts culminates in a battle fought on the sacred Isle of the Druids. In an effort to overthrow the pagan religion, the monks have been trying to establish a monastery here on ground where Fergus’s ancestors are buried. Maggie’s travels through time have her not only back in the 8th century with Fergus and his now teenage daughter, but also forward into a future in which the patriarchal Christians did not win their historical fight to eliminate the pagan religion of Scotland. In this alternate future, Maggie lives among Fergus’s descendents at the foot of Dunadd Hill in a technologically advanced community run by women.
Available August 2026
Boston Artist Hazel Crichton inherits from her colorful grandmother a croft on the west coast of Scotland, where she once spent a glorious summer. But Hazel is a mother now to five-year old Aengus and living with her school teacher boyfriend, so she takes her family’s advice to put the croft on the market. Looking to rekindle old memories on a final visit, Hazel arrives at the croft, only to find Scottish Poet Andrew Logan with a lease, he claims, from her grandmother. Martialing a lawyer, Hazel hunkers down with Aengus in the adjacent farm hoping to outmaneuver Logan, but is slowly drawn in by this radical poet and his crazy scheme to steal back the Lewis Chessmen from the British Museum.
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