Conwy Series

At the end there was a beginning, and then the circle must return. There would always be a beginning. The damaged peat bog Celtic cross she had found at the ancient monastic site in Athlone was probably hundreds, if not around a thousand years old and she’d felt something strange when she touched it. When Jack Gruffydd reads the strange advertisement for a psychic he is intrigued enough to answer the odd call for help. After several phone calls and emails, Jack finally flies to Ireland however is greatly disturbed by a peculiar sense of recognition and foreboding on meeting the very elusive and charming Kate. When he touches the ancient cross, fear crosses Jack’s heart and time forces its weight upon him as it has done many times before. This time is different, though. This time, he understands. Jack and Kate are about to discover that they have a history. Black Irish is a short story prologue to the Conwy series.

Whispers that the Welsh Chieftain's daughter, Rhianna is a changeling child have plagued her life since her beloved brother’s abduction by mercenaries years before when the boy was only seven summers old and she a tiny girl. Now a sultry and beautiful young woman, Rhianna is betrothed and truly miserable until something quite unbelievable happens to change the course of her life. Meanwhile in the present Rhee Llewellyn feels something is missing from her life but is elated to discover an antique chest in a shop containing some strange old clothes and personal effects. Meeting the enigmatic stranger Galen she is unable to stop events that follow and is hurled back through time to Medieval Wales, shocked to discover she has awoken as a different person. More disturbing is that Rhee soon discovers that her injured betrothed Chieftain Rhys Gruffydd is the man who has plagued her dreams for years, however more disturbing is that she is starting to remember a life that was not hers. Imagine being transported to a world that existed long ago; to live as the betrothed daughter of a Chieftain surrounded by the stark reality of Medieval Wales; of legend, magic, romance, betrayal and its ancient peoples. Would you really want to go? Woven in a captivating tale of enchantment, intrigue, treachery, love and magic where time is but a thin veil touching generations of the Gruffydd clan. Rhuddlan is the first book in the Conwy series.

At seventeen, Ciarán Gruffydd was an instinctive warrior. Eldest son and heir of Rhys Gruffydd, Chieftain of Conwy he would one day protect his people. That was before. Before he took the pretty Áine to the mountain and became a man; when the air suddenly filled with a dark rolling mist and there was a dawning magic that summoned him from beyond his ken and beyond everything he’d ever known. Seventeen years before, the fey Galen helped Ciarán’s mother Rhianna return to her rightful place in the past in Medieval Wales but became trapped in the strange and eerie world between time, space and heaven. Now Galen has discovered a way back home but must take Ciarán with him to the present time away from everything the young man had ever known and cherished and with no way to know whether he would ever be able to return him. Meanwhile Galen’s future wife, Rhee Llewellyn mistrusts his motives and when she disappears he and Ciarán must risk their lives to return to Medieval Wales and stop her from accidentally eliminating their lineage and their very lives. Conwy - Book 2 in the Conwy Series is an exciting Time Travel adventure once again following the lives of the Gruffydd family and filled with romance, magic and intrigue in an easy-read format. Rhuddlan - Book 1 in series, Conwy Conwy - Book 2 in the series, Conwy Padráig - Book 3 in the series, Conwy Galen's Child - Book 4 in the series Conwy coming soon!

In despair of his eldest son and heir’s idleness, Ciáran Gruffydd sends his son, the handsome wastrel, Padráig to kin, William Fraser at Eilean Donan Castle, Scotland where it is hoped the notorious Fraser will encourage Padráig to become responsible in learning the ways of the chieftain to one day lead his people. However when Padráig arrives at the Fraser stronghold the clan’s sworn enemy, Cameron James Knox Macarthur is installed at the Castle and impersonating Padráig. Mistaken for a member of the Macarthur clan, Padráig is taken into the mountains where he is beaten almost to death until a strange miracle intervenes in the form of young peasant girl, Eílis MacDonnell. A pretty and innocent young woman with her own mysterious secrets, Eílis heals Padráig in mind and body and gives him renewed sense of purpose in his life, teaching Padráig more about life and magic than any laird could. Unbeknownst to him, Cameron, heir of Alexander Macarthur is given a suicidal mission to prove his worth by destroying the Frasers in a long line of cruelties inflicted on him by his father. Sent to Eilean Donan to keep watch on her older brother, Larkin Gruffydd’s presence threatens Cameron’s plot and he insists on her silence, claiming it is he who has been sent to uncover a plot to ruin the Fraser. Larkin vows to discover more about the handsome secretive stranger as he tries to resist her. Soon however, Cameron discovers something which changes his life and everything he has been raised to believe. The opportunity for peace between the clans arises rather unexpectedly as romance and magic intervene. Padráig is book 3 in the Conwy series.

They were a circle of three; unbroken by time or space and kept safely for him during the dark hours where only dreams mattered. That night though, his safe world tilted on an uneven axis onto an uncommon, extraordinary path. Living with her eccentric parents, doing an ordinary job, Rachel had been dreaming of a strange boy all her life. A boy who grew when she did, and who became more familiar to her as the years passed by, until one day the unthinkable happened and she awoke with tangible evidence of her nocturnal visit; stained with the blood of a man who had been dead for over six hundred years... Signs and signals began to worry Galen and he soon realised that the legend that once changed his life so long ago, was about to transform his daughter’s, yet she knew nothing of its existence; did not realise that the boy she had dreamed of, lived in the middle ages and that her destiny lay with him amidst a clan legend spanning hundreds of years. Even her safe arrival in that place, though, could not protect her from Madoc’s vile intentions to make her his wife, and to destroy the Gruffydd clan forever, however Connor and Rachel’s connection was stronger than time itself, and would not surrender easily. Galen's Child is book number 4 in the Conwy series, preceded by the prologue, short story, Black Irish, Rhuddlan, Conwy and Pádraig.