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Highland Healer

The Highland Healer Series

This riveting tale takes the reader to 18th century Scotland where a young woman, a healer, is fleeing from a deranged soldier and others promising harm. She travels to the Highlands along with her companion . . .a huge, black wolf who stands between her and anyone trying to hurt her. This journey takes her on a spine-tingling escapade where she meets a handsome Highlander who owes her a debt and is determined to pay it. Along the way, she discovers she has more than her wolf to protect her. She has some special abilities that only surface when they are desperately needed. It appears her destiny has been planned and she must find her place in the Highlands, where danger is never far away – and neither is magick . . .

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Highland Circle of Stones

The Highland Healer Series

In volume two of the series, the healer is to wed her Highlander, even though his brothers are not especially in favor of this mating as they are not sure that Caitlin, the healer, might not just be a witch as some have said. The brothers wonder if her powers will be used for good, or will she bring danger to the MacKinnon Clan and the Highlands? And, too, the wolf that is her shadow gives them pause as well.

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Highland Bloodline

The Highland Healer Series

In this third episode, a most disturbing problem arrives in the form of a stranger, a young man claiming to be a member of the MacKinnon family. But is he? His arrival causes great family upheaval and relationships are fragile. Then, in the midst of this unsettling event, the healer’s husband, Alex, and one of his brothers are captured by British soldiers who are seeking Scots who were supporters of Bonnie Prince Charlie during the bloody Battle of Culloden. The brothers are to be taken to prison and most probably will never be seen again. In this time of dread, some seek help in other quarters. One such group is the Druids who perform their rituals which are frightening to some and calming to others. And the Beltane fires light the night sky as the Old Tolbooth Prison in Edinburgh stands high on a hill awaiting its next occupants. Is that the end of the MacKinnon brothers? Or will the healer and her wolf come to their rescue?

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The Wolf, The Wizard, and The Woad

The Highland Healer Series

In this prequel to the series, we learn of a young girl named Ci-Cero whose destiny was determined eons ago. She was abandoned on the shores of North America by her Viking father and Woad (Pict) mother in a desperate attempt to save her from a sure death. This child, Ci-Cero, is the healer’s grandmother, whose family left the Scottish Isles and came to North America in order to save their people. You will travel with her as she seeks her mentor, one who will train and empower her to fulfill her destiny. This mentor appears to be one who communicates with ravens and other animals . . . but is this mentor one she can trust? Is he truly The One the legend speaks of? Will her blood return to the homeland?

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We All Have Secrets

This novel was a Finalist in the Florida Writer’s Association contest . . .and a second novel in the series is underway! The setting for this historical fiction novel is an island off the coast of Florida in 1962 . . .during the Cuban Missile Crisis period. A young, female physician is attacked by a deranged psychiatric patient. She escapes with her life but is left with disturbing physical scars and devastating psychological ones as well. She recovers at her grandfather’s lighthouse home on an island off the coast of Florida. But her issues may be secondary as another terrifying event looms on the horizon. Fidel Castro is threatening to launch missiles from Cuba—missiles pointed at the United States—the Cuban Missile Crisis is heating up! Her grandfather, a retired U.S. Navy Captain, a “covert spy,” is called upon to participate in a secret operation that puts Molly and others in peril. Finally, a young Catholic priest adds an element of surprise to the tale. He’s taking a sabbatical, but what is his true reason for being on the island of Cayo Canna? What begins as a period of recovery for the young physician may evolve into a time of death, heartbreak and loss. After all . . .her attacker is still out there!

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Even Saints Have Secrets

1962 Having survived two attempts on her life, Dr. Molly McCormick is determined to “re-engage” and set up her physician practice on the island of Cayo Canna where she lives with her grandfather, Papa Jack, a retired Navy intelligence officer. However, when a dead body is discovered beneath a dock on the island, Dr. McCormick is pressed to act as the medical examiner/investigator to discover who and what caused this death.

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Tobacco Rose

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South Georgia 1955. Racial tensions lead to riots in the South. An old black woman named Rosie and a young white girl called Clementine are in danger of losing their lives in a flood. Caught up in swirling waters teeming with moccasins, dead animal carcasses and debris, they must get to higher ground to survive. They must work together to save themselves as well as a motherless child and a crippled young man. Will their combined efforts save them or will the impetuous, young girl’s thoughtless actions put them in more danger? Will Rosie come to Clementine’s rescue? During the long frightful night of the flood, Rosie takes Clementine on a mental journey as she tells the heart-wrenching tale of Kadie, her Gullah/Geechee ancestor who was kidnapped and brought to America on a slave-trading ship in the late 1700s. The tale touches Clementine’s soul, providing valuable lessons she will take to heart as she commits to learn about her own people. Were they resilient, intelligent, people with strong family values as Rosie’s were? Is there a “Kadie” in her history? A lifelong friendship is formed in this unlikely pair, and a thirst for knowledge and an appreciation of life is instilled in a young girl who wished only to hurry through life and grow up.

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