by 5u5p3nc3Auth0r | Sep 20, 2017 | Cloak and Mirrors
Everyone loves a wedding and what could be more idyllic than combining one with Ireland and Christmas? In the sixth book of the Black Swamp Mysteries Series (to be released in 2017) Vicki Boyd and Dylan Maguire head to his native Ireland for their wedding and...
by 5u5p3nc3Auth0r | Sep 20, 2017 | Authors and Books, Checkmate Clans and Castles, Cloak and Mirrors, Songbirds are Free
An author’s life and writing process is often misunderstood so when I read the synopsis of The Winter Sea by Susanna Kearsley, I knew I had to read it. It is about an author that is writing an historical novel about the Jacobite rebellion of 1708. She chooses to write...
by 5u5p3nc3Auth0r | Sep 19, 2017 | Cloak and Mirrors
The winds whistled and swirled in the frosty night like a chorus of apparitions dancing and bobbing, leaving soft whispers against Dylan’s ear, enticing, cajoling, flirtatious and deadly. Ah, but they could drive a man insane on a night like this, he thought, pulling...
by 5u5p3nc3Auth0r | Sep 19, 2017 | Cloak and Mirrors
Would you walk a rope bridge at gunpoint? Cloak and Mirrors, the 6th book in the Black Swamp Mysteries Series, features a rope bridge in the climactic scene. I was inspired by the Carrick-a-Rede Rope Bridge, situated along the coast of Northern Ireland in County...
by 5u5p3nc3Auth0r | Sep 19, 2017 | Cloak and Mirrors, The White Devil of Dublin
Ballytullmac is a fictional Irish village where Dylan Maguire was raised by his grandmother in the Black Swamp Mysteries series. It is set near the Bog of Allen and is located near Croghan Hill, a real place that is the site of an extinct volcano. From the top of...
by 5u5p3nc3Auth0r | Sep 19, 2017 | Cloak and Mirrors
The climactic scene in Cloak and Mirrors, the 6th book in the Black Swamp Mysteries Series, takes place along the Lough Erne in Northern Ireland. There are actually two lakes, the Upper Lough and the larger Lower Lough and in between is the beautiful and picturesque...