A Yankee Girl in Galway
This contemporary Irish romance is a sequel to Tho It Were Ten Thousand Mile, picking up where it left off. That novel ended with Fiona, mourning the sudden death of Séamus. She imagines that she will undertake the trip to Ireland that she and Séamus had been planning. She envisions herself visiting a pub in Galway that Séamus had often described. “And I will see you at a table in a dark corner, pint glass in your hand. You will give me a wink, drain the glass, take up your cap and blackthorn, and with a wave of your hand you will go out the door. I will follow you, but when I get outside you won’t be there. Perhaps I will hear your voice for a moment in the wind, or feel you hand stroke my hair. But you will be gone. And I will go back inside, to the light, the warmth, the noise, the life,”
In the sequel, A Yankee Girl in Galway, Fiona does go to Galway, and she does go into that pub, and she does see, or thinks she sees, the ghost of Séamus. But handsome, thirtyish Líam O’Flaherty is no ghost. He is very much alive and introduces Fiona to the “wee adventure” she had tucked away in the back of her mind. But amidst the romance and the songs and larking around the Irish countryside, Fiona’s adventure turns out to be anything but “wee.” Between rogue waves, a murderous Dublin drug dealer and black, deadly bogs, Fiona will be lucky to escape with her life. And even then, she will have to wrestle with the question, was Séamus, her former, dead lover, Líam’s father? It’s a rocky road to love, even in Galway.
For the first chapter of a never-to-be-written sequel click on FIONA.