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Detective Ryan O'Clery is working a series of homicides when he discovers a journal kept by an uncle five generations earlier, detailing the same type of murders as the Night of the Big Wind swept the Atlantic Ocean across Ireland in 1839.As Hurricane Irene barrels toward the North Carolina coastline, Ryan discovers even the killer's description matches exactly. And as he falls in love with television reporter Cathleen Reilly, he begins to wonder if she is the reincarnation of Caitlyn O'Conor, the woman lost to the killer as the storm raged in Ireland-and if he is the reincarnation of Constable Rian Kelly. Now he's in a race to rescue Cathleen before the killer finds her-or is history destined to repeat itself?

Following a flawed CIA mission, Vicki Boyd leaves the CIA to begin a new life in a new town assisting an elderly woman. But when she arrives, she finds Laurel Maguire has suffered a stroke and her nephew has arrived from Ireland to take care of her. Vicki quickly falls in love with the charming Dylan Maguire, but all is not what it seems to be at Aunt Laurel's house. And when the CIA arrive to recruit Vicki for one last mission, she finds her CIA past and her new future are about to collide... In murder.Vicki's Key placed as one of five finalists in both the 2012 International Book Awards and the 2012 USA Best Book Awards (mystery).

From the acclaimed author of Songbirds are Free comes this thrilling nonfiction narrative account of 300 men, women and children that followed Nashville founder John Donelson from Virginia and North Carolina to Fort Nashborough in the winter of 1779-1780. The journey should have taken only four weeks but more than four months after they departed, an emaciated group of settlers arrived at Fort Nashborough with a harrowing tale of survival. Their river journey took them through hostile Chickamauga territory at the height of the Chickamauga Indian Wars. Dragging Canoe, the Chickamauga leader, said that "whole Indian nations have melted away like snowballs in the sun before the white man's advance" and he declared war on any settler daring to venture west of the Great Smoky Mountains, stating, "I swear to all those here and to all those we represent: the white man will never live in peace here. Let the rivers run red with their blood." As the Donelson party ventured west of the Smokies, they were relentlessly attacked from Chattanooga through Muscle Shoals, Alabama. Many of the settlers were killed and several captured, including two Stuart sisters suffering from small pox. Their capture would spread small pox throughout the Chickamauga tribes, wiping out entire Indian villages. As winter set in with a record snowfall, the settlers' food supplies dwindled dangerously, causing shortages long before they reached their final destination and with the constant Indian attacks, they were unable to hunt or forage for food. As some settlers began to starve, others succumbed to frostbite, losing extremities-and even their lives. The Tennessee River would also become their adversary as their flatboats and canoes, vessels not meant for whitewater rapids, were pummeled again and again, sometimes sucked into whirlpools and other times dashed against jagged rocks as sudden and vicious uncharted descents appeared in their paths. The story is told through the eyes of 18-year-old Mary Neely, one of ten Neely children that accompanied their mother, Margaret, John Donelson and more than 300 settlers on the perilous, fated voyage. The book was determined to be so factual that the original manuscript was provided to the Nashville Metropolitan Government Archives for future researchers and historians. The award-winning author, p.m.terrell, is a descendant of Mary Neely and relied on historical accounts recorded by John Donelson, Mary Neely and other settlers who dared the river passage. Winner, Best Drama Award Honorable Mention, Nashville Book Festival, 2010 "p.m.terrell's excellence in historical fiction and descriptive style compels me to coin her the next Larry McMurtry" - Maury County, TN Public Libraries "River Passage is well written and terrell has a sharp eye for detail. A rich and inspiring story " - Nashville Metropolitan Government Archives

The book that predicted foreign interference in America's elections - and how they would do it.Kit Olsen has fallen into a routine as a 17-year veteran programmer/analyst for the CIA, wife to an increasingly absent husband, and mother to 16-year-old Tim. Then two of her fellow programmers are abducted and murdered, and her son is kidnapped. The ransom: a program written in Mandarin that was covertly intercepted by the CIA. Now in an effort to ransom her son, she is swept into a dark underworld filled with crossesand double-crosses, where no one can be trusted and nothing is as it seems. Kit knows the answer lies in breaking the Mandarin code, which leads to a political bonfire that she never could have imagined.

Political strategist Christopher Sandige is leaving Washington for a much-anticipated vacation in Florida when an automobile accident leaves him stranded at Exit 22 in North Carolina. After meeting a beautiful but mysterious woman, he is pulled into a shocking double homicide. Now he's a fugitive on the run, racing to escape homicide detectives closing in and a sociopathic assassin determined to kill him... and time is running out.The success of Exit 22 led to the award-winning Black Swamp Mysteries series, which includes Vicki's Key, Secrets of a Dangerous Woman, Dylan's Song and The Pendulum Files.

She had arranged to meet her husband in Northern Ireland for a second honeymoon, but when Charleigh arrives at the remote castle, she receives a message that he won't be coming-and that he's leaving her for another woman.Stranded for the weekend by a snow storm that has blocked all access to the castle, she finds herself three thousand miles from home in a country she knows nothing about.She is soon joined by Sean Bracken, the great-grandson of Laird Bracken, the original owner of the castle, and she finds herself falling quickly and madly in love with him. There's just one problem: he's dead.As the castle begins to come alive with secrets from centuries past, she finds herself trapped between parallel worlds. Caught up in a mass haunting, she can no longer recognize the line between the living and the dead. Now she's discovering that her appearance there wasn't by accident-and is more sinister than she ever suspected.

Award-Winning SeriesVicki and Dylan are back in the 6th book of the Black Swamp Mysteries Series, and they've discovered the CIA can even hijack a honeymoon.While staying in a remote Irish manor house along the Wild Atlantic Way, they are directed to retrieve a microchip containing stolen documents on Russia's newest stealth technology. But when the CIA asset decides to defect, their mission becomes much more complicated. In their attempt to turn him over at a designated rendezvous point, they discover they are being hunted and the Russians are closing in.Dylan's quest to deliver the defector takes him through Ireland's mysterious and haunted Blue Stack Mountains, to an abandoned property filled with IRA weapons, and across the Irish countryside on horseback-joined by a man he thought he would never see again. Separated from him, Vicki and her sister Brenda are fighting their own battles as Russians surround the remote manor house, intent on capturing the psychic spy.Even when they believe they have escaped, the Russians have one more trick up their sleeve... And this one is designed to kill.Romance, suspense and adrenaline-pumping adventure - another page-turner from award-winning author p.m.terrell.

A window into the ancestors of anyone of Scot-Irish descent Clans and Castles is the first book in the Checkmate Series In 1608, William Neely left Wigtownshire, Scotland for Ulster. He was looking for his place in the world but what he found was the adventure of a lifetime. Surrounded by powerful clans that had ruled Ulster for more than a thousand years, he came to know some of the most mighty chieftains of the time, including the formidable Cahir O'Doherty, who launched O'Doherty's Rebellion with the burning of Derry and the killing of Sir George Paulet of His Majesty King James' service. It would put in motion a chain of events that would transform Ireland and it would mark Cahir O'Doherty as the Last Gaelic Irish King in Ireland. Cahir O'Doherty became the Lord of Inishowen as a teen after the death of his father. Known as The Queen's O'Doherty due to his loyalty to Sir Henry Docwra and the English Crown, he saved his clan lands on the Inishowen Peninsula and his people from the fate that had befallen other Irish clans. Peace would be short-lived, however, when Henry Docwra, Governor of Derry, was replaced by the ruthless Sir George Paulet, who ushered in a new wave of hatred for the Gaelic Irish. It would all come to a head on one fateful night when O'Doherty took the commander at Culmore Fort hostage along with his wife and son. Gaining access to the weapons at Culmore Fort, he led an invasion of Derry, burning the village to the ground. It would touch off a wave of events that would unite the major clans of Ulster, leading to a bombardment of Burt Castle, a counterattack in the Inishowen Peninsula and the burning of Ulster; a major battle at Kilmacrenan and finally a siege at Tory Island. And when O'Doherty's Rebellion was complete, it would usher in the age of The Plantation and mass immigration of Lowland Scots, encouraged by King James I to transform all of Ulster. Clans and Castles is based on the life of the author's ancestor, William Neely. Reviewed by Christian Sia for Readers' Favorite Checkmate: Clans and Castles by P.M. Terrell is a spellbinding novel that captures a historic moment in Irish history in the early 17th century, exploring the adventures of William Neely, who came to Ireland from Scotland in 1608 in the hope of fighting in King James's army... Here is a tantalizing historical novel that plunges the reader into what life was like in Ireland at a period when powerful chieftains rose against each other, a captivating story with relevant historical and cultural references; it is the first book in the Checkmate series, and a great opening at that. What immediately arrested my attention was the power of the prose. From the very beginning of the story, the reader is treated to gorgeous descriptions of the setting and the characters: "The winds were fervent across the Irish Sea, pushing the waves into the shoreline with uncharacteristic intensity, stopped only by the jagged rock below before misting William Neely." The narrative is lyrical and the voice is irresistible. Yes, the prose sings in the reader's ears like beautiful music and it is peppered with wonderful dialogues, which are well-composed to read naturally and to deepen the plot and conflict. P.M. Terrell's characters are wonderfully developed and readers will love them. There is a lot of drama taking place throughout the narrative and the action is intense and unrelenting. Checkmate: Clans and Castles is a gripping treat for fans of historical novels, a well-crafted, not-easy-to-put-down story that will transport the reader into a turbulent period in Irish history.

Sometimes a woman comes to the realization that she has built the perfect life but with the wrong man.It is 1916 Ireland and Independence Mather has settled into a routine as the wife of a wealthy landowner. When architect Nicky Bowers enters her life, her world is upended. She quickly falls in love with the charming and attentive Irishman, but Nicky has secrets. When Penny discovers he is an Irish rebel, she is swept into the middle of the Easter Rising. Now she must decide whether to remain married to a British loyalist or join the rebellion to be by the side of the man she loves, and success is far from assured.Set against the backdrop of the 1916 Irish Easter Rising, the book offers sweeping views of the lush and beautiful Irish countryside, brings to life the Dublin of the early 20th century, and provides insight into the vastly different worlds of the British aristocrats and the average Irish citizen.Richard R. Blake of Midwest Book Review has said of Terrell's historical works, "Terrell introduces a new level of excellence to the historical novel. Using the mastery of an artist, Terrell paints colorful word pictures and descriptive phrases that are so exquisitely well-chosen that the reader is magnetically drawn into the plot, taking on a role as an active participant in the intrigue of the story."