Ireland 1488: An unusual young woman washes ashore on a remote Connemarra isle. Astonished by her golden skin and raven-black hair, the primitive islanders believe her to be a dark spirit or possibly even a mermaid or selkie, and set out to capture her. Resourceful and intelligent, the girl--called Marra, or mhara, by the islanders--manages to elude her pursuers, while struggling to understand the strange land she has been thrown into. Meanwhile, Aedan, a young scholar from the city of Galway, journeys to the island with his mentor to investigate, but is unprepared for what will happen when...

Ireland, 350 A.D. A fiery tragedy sends the wounded boy Bran on an epic journey across ancient Eire. He lands on a small island in the Western Sea and falls in with a gang of coastal raiders--primitive pirates. Proud at first to be among them, he soon comes to see their cruelty, particularly in their trade of other humans into slavery. He forges bonds with some of the captives, including a lovely, troubled girl taken from Roman Britain. Though small and defenseless, he devises a scheme to overthrow his masters and free their slaves, with the aid of a devoted wolfhound and several other...

At the end of the first millennium-999 AD-the Irish sea-side clan of Murragh still remembers all too well the bloody raids on their lands by the vicious Northmen, or Vikings. They believe the threat lingers still on the small isle that lays just offshore-Inis Ghall, or "Isle of Foreigners." But Murragh's daughter Omra has no fear of the island or its possible inhabitants; and her curiosity is piqued by a pair of boys, twin brothers her own age who make their way to the mainland in search of food and survival. She is drawn to Stigg, a half-Irish warrior and metalsmith, though she is officially...

Best friends Grace and Miranda, good Catholic girls of a certain age, find themselves at odds with their 'saintly' husbands after decades of marriage. Grace plots an escape from her well-meaning but overbearing husband, while Miranda struggles with a spike in libido and a disinterested spouse. But Fulton and Sal, former seminary classmates, have their own devils to deal with: Fulton fights his attraction to a flighty younger woman and his own (unfounded) fears that Grace is developing dementia; while Sal contends with 'performance issues' and the sudden appearance of Miranda's 'starter'...