Bøger af Maria McDonald

One lie changes a family's path for generations-and finally brings them back to Ireland, in this saga by the author of The Devil's Own. In May 1917 the Americans sailed into Cork to join the Great War. When they left two years later, they brought their war brides with them, including Lizzie McCarthy. Still reeling from the tragic death of her sister Maggie, Lizzie leaves Ireland hoping for a better life with her new husband Ed Anderson. Lizzie soon finds that America is not the land of opportunity she thought it was. Despite the obstacles in her path, she makes a good life for herself and her family. Ed's sisters become her closest friends and allies. At home, Ireland's bloody civil war ends. Lizzie's brother Jimmy joins her and becomes part of the family until he feels compelled to return to a new independent Ireland. But another conflict is on the horizon, and as their family grows and plants roots in America, they take the once-unimaginable step of boarding a plane and visiting Ireland. Once there, will Lizzie finally learn the truth about her sister's death?

A set of century-old diaries found in an attic draws an Irish couple into a tale of murder and madness, in this absorbing new suspense. After forty years in the Irish army, Brian is looking forward to retiring and spending time with his wife--though he worries about adjusting to civilian life. While clearing the attic before they move house, he makes a discovery: three journals dating back to the early twentieth century. One was written by Arthur, an ex-Connaught Ranger; another by Arthur's wife, Edith, a colonel's daughter; and the third by Henry, a British soldier and Arthur's best friend. Brian and his wife are soon engrossed in reading the diaries and following the intertwined stories of these three people from the past. But it soon becomes chillingly clear that these diaries contain more than the daily adventures of ordinary lives. Because one of the three is a killer . . .

The dark lord lies in waiting... he has a wicked scheme to find a mortal filled full of hatred and revenge, which they alone in their anger and resentment would risk everything to open the gates to the underworld, and unleash the demons that dwell within. The dark deity would find his malevolent champion, who would make a dark pact with him, and swear allegiance to his nefarious plans. This heinous individual he chose would make it their sole duty to wreak havoc on all those who had wronged them and anyone who would stand in their evil lord's way. Only Aleena, sorceress and diplomat for the kingdom of Guildar, could band together a group of friends to stop the evil lord's unholy plan. Follow Aleena, Quinny, Rylan and Nora, on their journey to defeat the vile betrayer who wishes to free the demons upon the lands of Shaken and leave nothing left in their wake. Shaken while filled with magic and wonders, finds its fate in the hands of our heroes and on the precipice of disaster and ruin...