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FINALIST IN 'READERS' FAVORITE BOOK AWARD FOR OUTSTANDING FICTION' Part love story, part thriller, readers will find it hard to resist turning the pages." -- TELEGRAPH "Great touching story! -- All I can say is you better have a box of tissues in close proximity while reading this book. It will tear at your heart strings over and over again, and it's impossible to put down! Gretta Curran Browne is one of my favorite authors. Her writing has be...

BROWNE HAS A TALENT FOR DRAWING US INTO HER CHARACTERS AND SITUATiONS" - Irish News. Set in the mid 19th century, on the beautiful Island of Mull, the largest of Scotland's Western Isles, on the estate of Jarvisfield owned by Lachlan Macquarie Jnr - a young man deeply unhappy with his lot in life. In love with Beth Jarvis - the young girl of mixed blood whom he had believed would be not be accepted in Scotland's high society, leading him to ma...

A stand-alone novel, and also the second novel in The Macquarie SeriesAs a young British officer, Lachlan Macquarie served his country in America, the West Indies, India and Egypt, but now he is being asked to go to a wilderness on the other side of the world where famine and strife amongst the inhabitants is flourishing.A firm hand is needed, but when he arrives Lachlan surprises the population by showing them he is not only firm, he is also ...

FROM THE INTERNATIONALLY PUBLISHED & BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF "TREAD SOFTLY ON MY DREAMS"A STAND ALONE NOVEL - and Book 3 of The Macquarie Series.A mixture of the Arabic blood of her father, and the English blood of her mother, Elizabeth (Beth) Jarvis grows up on the estate of Jarvisfield in Scotland. A dark-haired, dark-eyed girl of uncommon beauty who enslaves the hearts of two young men, while loving only one.Lachlan Macquarie Junior, rich and...

A Stand-Alone Novel - also Book One of The Macquarie Series "Fabulous and heartbreaking ... fresh and authentic in every detail ... it has to be the best book I have read about the British in India since M. M. Kaye's "The Far Pavilions" - Dr Aileen Keegan. Set in the beauty of Scotland, the magic of India, and the hostility of China, peopled with memorable characters of all races, By Eastern Windows is the story of a young British soldier, Lac...

The plot is flawless." - Readers' FavoriteFINALIST IN "READERS' FAVORITE BOOK AWARD FOR OUTSTANDING FICTION"Part love story, part thriller, readers will hard to resist turning the pages." -- TELEGRAPH "Great touching story! -- All I can say is you better have a box of tissues in close proximity while reading this book. It will tear at your heart strings over and over again, and it's impossible to put down! Gretta Curran Browne is one of my fav...

Two people - married unhappily to others - but desperately in love with each other, living in a time when wedlock was a padlock for life, with no opening key.For Lord Byron, Teresa Guiccioli is not his only desperate love, he also loves Italy, and cares for the Italian people now under the crushing rule of Austria. Can he fight the Austrians with scathing poetry, or join the secret Italian organisation of the 'Carbonari' who are preparing to t...

Good night-or rather, morning. It is four, and the dawn gleams over the Grand Canal and unshadows the Rialto. I must to bed, up all night - but, 'it's life, though, damme, it's life!' "An Englishman in Italy, Lord Byron's life in Venice is full of fun, laughter, and devil-may-care romancing - until he meets his last and truest love, the eighteen-year-old Teresa Gamba Guiccioli, for whom he risks everything, even the danger to his own life, and...

The Boy ... The Man ... The LegendWith the instant success of his brilliant new works, The Corsair and Lara, Lord Byron's literary fame as a poet of stature has spread to all parts of America and throughout Continental Europe. Mary Chaworth still invades Byron thoughts, but two other women now seek to move her completely out of his way - Miss Annabella Milbanke, who has now turned into a persistent letter-writer in the hope of renewing Byron's...

A WORLD APART: An Epic Novel From Ireland's Past The Michael Dwyer story continues ... powerful in its drama and truth ... and his fame in the history of Ireland begins. Now a close friend of Robert Emmet, Michael does everything in his power to help the young aristocrat succeed in his revolutionary aims, but traitors abound everywhere, attempting to bring down both young men. A winner, a fighter, a survivor, Michael remains free and undefeate...

Michael Dwyer was born, cradled and then grew from boy to man under the shade of the Wicklow Hills. He knows every inch of them - the secret streams to quench a man's thirst, the wild game to keep away hunger, the wood in excess to burn, and the sheltering caves. And then, in the historic year of 1798 he comes to know love.When Michael Dwyer first dances with Mary Doyle on the night of the Spring Fair, many of the locals see their love story u...

WINNER OF READERS' FAVORITE GOLD MEDAL AWARDAN EPIC NOVEL FROM IRELAND'S PAST"We were taught nothing about Ireland or its history in school, and when I learned of our part in that struggle I felt shame. I think the whole world should know about young men like Tone and Robert Emmet. Oscar-winning Actor, COLIN FIRTH, Sunday Times MagazineThe Emmets are Protestants, belonging to the elite society of Ireland's ruling class. Born in 1778, Robert Em...

Living amongst the richest people of the highest strata of London Society and being fallen over by its glamorous women, Lord Byron, the "Idol Poet" of his time, has never quite got over the raw emotions of his unrequited love for his country cousin Mary Chaworth.Until they meet again, and Mary finds new hope for a happier life with the man she had once rejected as a teenage boy, and now deeply loves.Byron brings down the wrath of the newspaper...

Byron only had to come, and to be seen, in order to conquer."At twenty-seven, Lady Caroline Lamb reads the story of a young aristocrat's strange journey through unknown and barbaric parts of Europe in Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, and declares her opinion that the author would certainly be "mad, bad, and dangerous to know."A few weeks later she actually meets him, and becomes obsessed to the point of erotomania.From the wilds of Albania to a lif...

THE BOY - THE MAN - THE LEGEND -- Covering his earliest years to the age of twenty-three -, this fascinating novel goes "behind the screen" to tell the private and personal story of the most iconic young man of his time - Lord Byron - whose charisma, beauty and literary genius helped him to overcome personal difficulties and rise from obscurity to become Britain's first superstar." I'VE READ ABOUT BYRON BEFORE, BUT NEVER LIKE THIS."-- M.L.Keeg...

Having left England behind him, Lord Byron arrives on the shores of Lake Geneva in Switzerland, where he meets the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, Mary Godwin and Claire Clairmont. Four young people seeking a new life.All are brought to life in that happy and haunted summer of true friendship, love, and story-telling, when during a period of stormy weather over the Alps, Mary writes 'Frankenstein', and Byron writes 'The Vampyre', later plagiarised ...