The secrets a father kept from his daughter about who he was and who she is . . .become the only way he can protect her.1944: Jacques volunteered for a mission into northern France to restore a Resistance communications network destroyed by the Gestapo and extract a key member of the group known as the Gypsy. Previous agents had lasted only a few days to a few weeks. He soon realizes that his primary job is to survive long enough to complete the mission.1976: When her father and mother die in an auto accident, Gen Patterson's life is turned upside down. She had been her daddy's girl, but now, she is beginning to wonder if she ever really knew him. At first, the items he'd hidden in a trunk in their attic and in a distant bank box only bring questions. But when she thinks she's being followed and someone takes a shot at her, she seeks help from an old friend. A chance encounter with Scott Talbott reminds her of a football game, a surprise kiss, a candy-apple red '55 Ford T-bird, and getting grounded for dating a seventeen-year-old when she had just turned fifteen. Working as a team, they seek to unravel the mystery of what her father wanted to protect her from, and a three-decade-old mystery.
About the Author: An author since the age of 16, I have published more than 100 articles in magazines and professional journals, and more than 400 articles and blogs on-line. Book publications include nine nonfiction books and seven novels. My newest book is a the story of the lengths a father will go to protect his daughter through secrets that eventually upend her world. After twenty years of writing non-fiction, I decided to try my hand at fiction and wrote I Speak for Éire, and its prequel To Rule the Wind, both set in first Century Ireland. Not ready to leave that era, I wrote two time travels from the present back to Celtic Ireland, Wedding of My Dreams and Of Times There Were Before. I also put my Army nurse experience to work in Victoria's Promise, and my history degree into Woven on Fate's Loom. My 16th book, The Mystery of the Irish Twin, a middle-grade reader, was published in June of 2016, and I am currently working on a novel about my ancestors' flight from persecution to freedom in the early 1700's. My desire to help other writers led to creating my own publishing company, Celtic Loom Books, which focuses on Celtic and contemporary fiction, and an imprint, Faith's Loom Books, which carries inspirational, and educational books.