Bøger af P M Terrell

Writer Hayley Hunter has arrived in Ireland to complete a book on Irish history. When she discovers the old carriage house she is renting is haunted, she is determined to uncover the truth behind the burned ruins of a nearby manor house and the abandoned British barracks it overlooks. With the assistance of Shay Macgregor, an Irish historian, her quest will take her to 1919 and the Irish War for Independence, exposing the murders of two young men and why their mother, April Crutchley, refuses to leave the back of beyond even in death. With a budding romance and the opportunity to begin life anew, Hayley finds her own life is now in jeopardy as she gets closer to a truth the villagers have long sought to bury.

Detective Ryan O'Clery agrees to meet a noted historian who claims to have information about his ancestors. But when he arrives, he finds she has been murdered and her computer stolen. His investigation will lead him back to 12th Century Ireland, to a time of Viking invaders and conquests, to an albino known as The White Devil of Dublin, and to a secret his family kept hidden for more than eight hundred years. It will also bring him face to face with a present-day serial killer intent on finishing the job he started.

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?

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.

CIA operative Dylan Maguire joins forces with psychic spy Vicki Boyd to find out who is bombing merchant vessels en route to the United States from China. Their mission takes them to Black Sites, to the high seas and into covert operations. And when an assassin escapes from prison determined to finish the job he started, they find that their personal lives and their mission are about to collide in ways they never could have imagined.

Based on a true story. In August 1780, just four months after arriving at Fort Nashborough after a harrowing river journey west, 19-year-old Mary Neely was captured by Shawnee warriors.Mere moments after witnessing her father's death and scalping, the warriors spared Mary's life, taking her to Shawneetown, hundreds of miles away along the Ohio River, where they initiated her into the tribe and renamed her Songbird for her beautiful voice. Then they gave her a choice: marriage to the warrior that had just slain her father, or become a slave to the chieftain's wife. She told the interpreter that she wanted neither because songbirds are free. The interpreter then decided for her: she would become a slave.Mary's ordeal was only beginning. She was taken a thousand miles from her home, journeying the war-torn country's midsection while she attempted numerous times to escape, only to be interrupted or recaptured.At Fort Detroit, she learned the British soldiers were rewarding Native Americans that captured settlers, believing this would impair their ability to fight in the Revolutionary War. They paid the Shawnee for her Indian capture but returned her to the captors. The tribe, in turn, used their payment to unwittingly purchase items from Fort Detroit, including blankets carrying smallpox.As their travels continued northward, the dwindling tribe became infected with smallpox, including Mary. She managed to escape to a French village, whose inhabitants hid her while her captors searched for her. But her ordeal was not yet over. During her escape, she was captured by the British, who held her as a prisoner of war.Songbirds are Free is considered a narrative nonfiction survival story penned by a descendant of Mary Neely, who traveled in her footsteps more than two hundred years after her ancestor's capture. Author p.m.terrell began with personal journals and articles of the period and met with historians, archeologists, and Native American experts, as well as visited the places where Mary was taken. The result is a meticulously researched account of Mary Neely's three years in captivity, revealing a strong woman that never gave up faith or determination to be free. It is also considered Native American/Colonial American/Early American historical fiction for its use of dialogue. Songbirds are Free reads like a fast-paced action-adventure, but it proves once more that truth is often more dramatic than fiction. It is also a peek into Native American culture at the time of the American Revolution, their struggles, their will to survive, and the choices they faced in aligning with the French, the British, or the Americans.Ultimately, Songbirds are Free is about the women that helped to settle America and their grit, perseverance, faith, and strength.The story of Mary's journey westward in 1779-1780 as part of the Donelson river voyage is told in the companion book, River Passage. Her ancestor's migration in 1608 from Scotland to Ulster is detailed in Clans and Castles.

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

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).

Dylan Maguire's first assignment with the CIA is to interrogate recently captured Brenda Carnegie. But when she escapes again, it's clear she's had help from within the CIA's own ranks. Now she's in Dylan's custody again and he's learning the secrets she keeps could topple the government unless they can identify the rogue agents - and eliminate them before they kill Dylan and Brenda. And when Dylan discovers Brenda's true identity, he realizes his mission has just become very personal.

CIA operative Dylan Maguire returns to his native Ireland with psychic spy Vicki Boyd. Their assignment: to locate and extract a missing CIA operative. But when Dylan receives word that his grandmother is dying, his mission plunges him into a past he thought he'd turned his back on forever. Vicki discovers the real reason he left Ireland for America - while harboring a secret of her own.

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.