The English army attacks Donegal Castle in Ireland in 1589. The few defenders fight vaingloriously but they are overwhelmed by the English in numbers, weaponry and surprise. Maire and Uilliam are a young, married couple who try to fight off the invaders but are lost when the castle burns. In 1666, Mary Goode is a young girl indentured to the King's Baker. Smelling fire late one night, she sounds the alarm. It is the start of the Great Fire of London. Maire is reincarnated as Mary, but remembers nothing of her past life in Ireland--that is until she meets--and touches--an English gentleman,...

June 21, 2003--the Vernal Equinox--author J.A. Greenleaf and his Kerry Blue Terrier, Murphy, are alone in his cottage located at the very top of Ireland, at Malin Head. Near midnight, on a very dark night, he decides to go outdoors and walk Murphy. To his great surprise and amazement, there are about thirty winged creatures, about the size of his hand, on the grass across from his front door. He walks closer and all of them rise up off the grass and fly towards him, circling in front of his face, making a "clacking" sound. He goes inside to get his new digital camera, expecting them to be...

In total darkness in the 1960s, an American Coast Guard icebreaker, the Cutter "Bear," escorts a thin-hulled WWII Liberty ship through the high Arctic ice to provide supplies and rescue beleaguered Air Force personnel at fire-ravaged Thule Air Force Base, near the North Pole. After a collision in the ice, south of Thule, the Liberty ship breaks in half and sinks, but not before ramming the icebreaker. Holed and afire, the crew abandons ship in -66 degree weather, high winds, and darkness, leaving behind a sole sailor, left for dead with a badly broken arm. As the ship starts to sink, and grow...