Windswept Tales: The McDougall Clan’s Women Enduring Strength

In the tempestuous heart of 17th-century Scotland, amidst the wild highlands and fierce clan rivalries, a beacon of resilience shines through the noblewomen of the McDougall clan. Windswept Tales: The McDougall Clan’s Women Enduring Strength introduces readers to the indomitable Lady Michelle; a matriarch whose intellect and fortitude guide her family through treachery and triumph.

Join Lady Michelle and her four fierce daughters—each a lioness in her own right.

As they navigate a world that seeks to confine them to the shadows of domesticity. Lady Kristen’s captivating insights into human nature make her a master manipulator of alliances. Lady Rachel’s eloquent oratory invigorates the hearts of allies and sways the minds of adversaries; her words can rally a clan, but her spirit can also brandish a sword. Meanwhile, the astute Lady Nikole deciphers legal complexities with precision, ensuring her family’s fortunes, as Lady Angela wields her unique combat skills to defend their heritage and carve out their destiny in a world eager to erase them.

As whispers of power intertwine with tales of valor and cunning, these formidable women redefine the role the nobility plays. In an age where strength is often judged by bloodlines, McDougall’s proves that true legacy is built on intellect, alliance, and an unyielding bond of loyalty.

Will they succeed in altering the fate of their clan, or will the encroaching darkness snuff out their light? With suspense, rich historical intrigue, and an ensemble of compelling characters, Windswept Tales beckons you into a realm where sisterhood conquers adversity and women shape history. Immerse yourself in a riveting saga of power, passion, and the enduring strength of the lionesses of Clan McDougall.

The Loura Lure

Dr. Shamus Bergin lands a coveted position of Staff Psychologist in the Secure Treatment Unit of a mental hospital right out of school. He is soon vexed by an amnesiac patient who defies clinical diagnosis and whom every other doctor has written off. Inconsistencies about the man’s origins intersect with Shamus’s own doubts that the patient even belongs in an institution.

As his own investigation continues to be met with redacted files and evasion from governmental agencies, the doctor-patient relationship suddenly undergoes a radical shift. The patient discloses that he has time travelled from a forgotten Age of Loura to seek help from modern day members of The Sacred Order of Keepers to find the last living angel. Only the angel can turn the tide in the ultimate struggle between good and evil in this deliberately erased timeline 20,000 years in the past. With his parents tragically lost in a boating accident a decade earlier, Shamus must turn to his one true friend, Dr. John Browse, to make sense of the voices within which are calling him to action.

With career and grip on sanity at stake, Shamus must decide whether he has succumbed to the delusions of a sick mind or whether he should take a leap of faith and help the man achieve his mission.

Hurricane Rescue

After meeting in school and dating, Andy Thompson, and Milly Richards, grew apart and began their adult lives separately, though they still held strong feelings for each other. While Milly sought a career in Design, Andy joined the Navy and began training as a SEAL, but after an auto accident led to his leg being amputated, he was discharged and with his dreams all but destroyed, chose to live on the sea, piloting a boat and doing his best to make a living.

While working for a hotel chain, Milly was tasked with working on a new property in the Caribbean, but even though she was worried about a future hurricane, her boss ignored the threat until it was too late and the two were now trapped in the path of a Category Five Hurricane. Using her contacts, Milly managed to call home to warn her family about her predicament and her father contacted Andy’s family. When Andy learned that Milly was trapped, it brought back all those memories of her and realizing she meant more to him than anything else, he contacted his old Navy buddies and using a borrowed boat, they were able to barely reach the island alive just after the storm passed.

Arriving safely was one thing, finding the love of his life was something even more difficult in the destruction and chaos now engulfing the island. Reaching her last known location, Andy was upset to find she was gone and frantically searched the surrounding area until he was able to decide where she had gone and had a difficult time reaching her before they were able to plan how to safely leave the island.

Chasing Light

Chasing Light, begins with the story of Anthony Beckles, an international student from the island of Jamaica in the Caribbean. He is pursuing a postgraduate degree in marine biology at California State University Monterey, where he meets Aileen Wu, a second-generation American Chinese student, completing a master’s degree in social work.

Chasing Light also explores the stories of Anthony’s immigrant brothers, Donald and Trevor, together with their partners, traversing a generation to their young niece Carla, her partner, Antonio, and his own Spanish mother, Consuela, as well as Keira and Pari, truly intriguing twin sisters from Kerala, India, who first meet Anthony and Aileen in the small Atlantic island archipelago of Bermuda.

If you are a reader who enjoys complex characters that drive immersive plots, and the evocation of eidetic locations, as well as searing emotions – thought-provoking novels, with dramatic twists, turns and thrills, shocking events, wildly intense sorrow, sudden chuckles, inspirational tropes, and memorable but unpredictable cross-cultural love stories, Chasing Light is for you!

The Corrigan Factor

Two ships, Alcyone and Solira, an alien vessel, both in trouble from unprovoked attacks.

Two captains: one still aboard his disabled ship, the other picked up by Alcyone’s sister ship, Electra, and accused of desertion.

A daughter eager for reunion with a father she hasn’t seen in years.

The father who all but abandoned her and who has been conducting illegal scientific experiments and profiting from the venture.

An ambassador in a hurry, eager to take credit for a possible first contact.

And a minor crew member aboard Electra, whose unexpected abilities unite them all.

Self Righteous

Many of us have witnessed someone walk free despite being guilty of a crime. Perhaps we have even felt the urge to take justice into our own hands but held back due to fear of reprisal or the legal consequences. But what happens when a victim, or someone connected to a crime, decides to act? Does seeking vengeance make them self-righteous, or are they justified in making the guilty pay?

In this gripping and suspenseful novel, Jake does exactly that. As he takes justice into his own hands, he leads the police on a relentless chase, leaving behind cryptic clues about his next target. With each riddle, the stakes rise. Can the police decipher his messages and catch him before he strikes again, or will Jake continue to outmaneuver them while carrying out his version of justice?

Tales from Beyond

This anthology brings together a riveting collection of science fiction and horror tales, each set in a different place and time, inviting readers to explore the unknown.

In ‘Destination Infinity,’ astronauts on a mission around the Alpha Centauri system return to Earth 150 years later than planned, only to find a totalitarian regime has seized control of a high-tech society with unsettling visions for communal life.

‘An Encounter With Destiny’ follows the survivors of a plane crash stranded on a remote Pacific island during a nuclear war as they confront the haunting possibility that they might be the last people on Earth. Among them is a mysterious scientist, whose presence stirs both hope and unease.

In ‘The German Factor or The Recreation Machine,’ a man invents a device that turns photographs into reality. But as he falls in with a reneged army bent on rebellion, his invention is weaponized, transforming this tale into a thrilling war story.

The horror story ‘Even the Wicked for the Day of Evil’ follows a Haitian immigrant who, after his French roommate dies in police custody, turns to voodoo for revenge.

In ‘The Next Star Past Luyten 725-34,’ the first astronauts on a mission of interstellar colonization stumble upon colonies already established by previous Earth expeditions.

The science fiction tale ‘A Return to Huntington Grounds’ imagines a near future where a baseball team travels back in time, altering the course of their sport forever.

Finally, in a ‘Deadland,’ a lonely man driven by despair reaches for the occult to escape his misery, gaining unimaginable power to retaliate against everyone who stands in his way.

This collection offers a journey across the strange and the terrifying, where the boundaries of reality, ambition, and revenge are pushed to their limits.

Iris Lynne

If you like historically accurate depictions of various topics that might take you all over the world and through different periods of time, this book is for you. There is no intended relation between the subjects chosen other than that the author herself wondered about another explanation for what had actually occurred: a supernatural one. This is historical fiction with a supernatural twist, with the exception of the first story. The first story is dedicated to one of my older sisters, Iris Lynne, who always wanted me to write scary stories that would hold one’s attention when learning factual history, especially if one’s mind tended to wander off into the fictional areas of the supernatural. She loved my purely non-historical fictional story. The other stories, which move around the globe and through time to discuss such things as Cleopatra’s little sister, Harriet Tubman’s Underground Railroad, Balboa, Percy Shelley, President William Henry Harrison, and the Pendle Witches of England, should be fascinating!

Sake: For You and Me

These inspiring haikus will capture your heart, offering profound wisdom wrapped in a simple poem of 17 syllables in three lines. The author dives deep into feelings of love, loss, flirtation, passion, self-awareness, and the experience of living life fully and inexcusably.

Sake: For You and Me is a collection of versatility, confronting honesty, and intense expression, alongside hope, light, and distinctive spirit. The author’s evocative language reveals a whole panorama of thought in three lines. This collection of enchanting haikus tackles topics that strike most deeply at the core of what it means to be human.

The Crumbling Tower of My Life

The Crumbling Tower of My Life is a resounding and moving collection of deeply felt poems. Found within this outpouring of soul are echoes of both hope and hopelessness. Fears are personified, given an identity, and addressed out in the open. This book is a journey through healing, written in tandem with the emotions experienced along the way. It takes you on a ride from a life-shattering ending towards a journey of rebirth.

This poignant collection of poems will have you riding waves of melancholy, relieved by uplifting touches of whimsy and possibility. It beautifully captures the facets of the life we lead through a lens of love and loss.

The lovely, the deluded, the unhinged, the magical, and even the mundane: nothing is off limits with alchemy such as this. Its simple goal is to transform suffering into connection by speaking the darkness into existence. Vulnerability is capable of holding immense beauty and space for a collective to form, even within its breakdown.

This book is an attempt to make tangible the anguish of coping poorly with lost love. It explores all stages of hurt, as well as the overwhelming nature of all the possibilities ahead that remain unknown. It serves as a reminder of the massive mess of love you can gain if you learn to open your heart to it. It is a genuine telling of horrid beauty and a raw expression of the human experience. The journey starts within, and the fight for rebuilding is a worthy one.

Beyond the Clinic

As Musa goes through the final years of medical school, he begins to engage in activities outside clinical work, starting with organising the annual medical dinner with limited funding during his fourth year. After his internship, he is posted to a hospital that becomes besieged during the war. There, he finds himself drinking beer at a bar belonging to a disreputable woman who is a concubine of the commander of the losing army and is also trying to woo the commander of the victorious one.

After the war, Dr Musa finds himself organising a wedding for a colleague with insufficient funds. Meanwhile, the night before the wedding, the groom and best man are accosted by ‘the Twins’ – two sisters known to seduce any man they desired. When Dr Musa drives a sports car, he becomes vulnerable to seduction by single women until his niece comes to occupy the empty seat in his car as a chaperone. His car adventures include being carjacked in Nairobi. He is also kissed on the lips in Geneva by two ladies whom he helps to jump-start their car, and again in Jakarta by a woman he assists in getting her car out of a tight spot.

Dr Musa’s life outside the clinic was characterised by one crisis after another. These included: using his personal account to manage funds from his employer; his daughters warding off a ‘lady-in-red’ who had fallen for him in Amsterdam; having to answer his young daughter’s question about when he started to have sex; and responding to his granddaughter’s query about whether he was married.

He equates these crises to a pivotal moment during a friendly football match between Ugandan and Kenyan doctors. In that game, he kicked the ball high in the air, not knowing if it would land in his own goalposts or on the opponent’s side. He only discovered later that it had landed safely on the opponent’s side. In the end, he wonders whether one can survive by simply ‘kicking the ball’ in a crisis, reacting without planning, and get by in life without strategy, relying on the Grace of God.

Curtain Call

Frederica Jones divorced her husband of 27 years and moved from Manhattan to Melbourne Beach, Florida, for a new and exhilarating lease on life. Then she learned that her lifelong friend, Lea Gagnon, was newly widowed in Quebec, Canada, where she had spent her married life and had recently been diagnosed with dementia.Throughout the novel she battles the question of how much she is willing to sacrifice of her own remaining life for the comfort and solace of her beloved friend. What do we owe those we love who are felled by this most horrible disease?Frederica steps into Lea’s life as Lea’s sister forfeits that responsibility, and she is left with untangling a legal mystery centering on Oliver Gagnon, Lea’s stepson, who appears to have full legal control of Lea’s life.Frederica will have to go to Quebec, Canada, to confront Oliver Gagnon. That is where the novel truly begins.