The Gallaghers of Ardmore Trilogy

outside with it in the last of the dying light, listening to the aching silence and watching stars pulse to life.
    Tim Riley, whoever the hell he was, looked to be right. There was no rain coming yet. The foundation he was building would set clean.
    As he turned to go back in, a streak of movement overhead caught his eye. A blur of white and silver across the darkening sky. But when he looked back for it, narrowing his eyes to scan, he saw nothing but stars and the rise of the quarter moon.
    A falling star, he decided. A ghost was one thing, but a flying horse ridden by the prince of the faeries was another entirely.
    But he thought he heard the cheerful lilt of pipes and flutes dance across the silence as he shut the door of the cottage for the night.



This novel is a work of fiction.
Names, characters, places, and incidents are either the product of the author’s imagination
or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead,
events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

HEART OF THE SEA

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First edition (electronic): June 2001

Dear Reader,

    Lore and legend play a vital part in the history of Ireland. Song and story have been written of the faerie rafts and the Good People who live in those silver castles under the green hills. So it is those stories and those songs that make up a charming portion of Irish culture.
    Trevor Magee’s people sprang from this, though they traveled across the sea to settle in America. And made their fortune. But like many whose roots are in those hills, Trevor is drawn back to the land of his ancestors. He will come to Ardmore to build his dream, a theater to showcase the art of his heritage.
    To do so he’ll work with the Gallaghers, and use their traditional pub in his plans. In Heart of the Sea, he will live in a cottage where a ghost walks and waits for her true love. He will cross wits with a faerie prince who is determined to have his way at last.
    And he will meet, deal with, and desire the intriguing and frustrating Darcy Gallagher.
    All of her life she’s wanted more, and made no secret of her hope to find a rich man to give her a lush and exciting life. Now that she’s met him, it’s a matter of hearts that must be won. His as well as hers. Until they are, the spell that separates lovers holds fast.
    Take a walk with me in the shadow of an ancient round tower. I’ll tell you what happened.
    Nora Roberts
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