The God of death is allowed to take a holiday, conditional on completing a task.
Eamon the Handsome Ghoul deputises but grows to like the job.
Mason, a violent misogynist detective agrees to let the God of Death assume his identity.
As Mason he must deal with his feelings for Pauline, Mason's submissive wife. And as a detective he is sucked into the machinations of a Chicago gangster who is looking to expand into New Orleans and Las Vegas.
He meets the Grey man and his partner, Dearg, a vampire, and enlists their help to find Oengus, the Celtic God of Love who has gone off the grid and is freelancing, fighting evil in America.
Meanwhile Eamon the Handsome Ghoul plots his downfall.?????
You are in the capital city of Ireland. Like any city there are problems. Your job is to find Irish solutions to Irish problems.
Your team includes your beautiful Russian assistant Alice and the dangerous ex-army ranger, called the PMC, who has a slightly scrambled brain. Your customers include gangsters, police, business men, politicians and tailors each with a unique problem.
Each chapter is a short story but characters remain and develop as the book progresses.
This novel is an engaging, witty blend of comic fantasy, Irish mythology, romance and taut modern-day thriller, located mainly in Dublin, Ireland.
Following the suicide of her teenage mother, baby Fiona is put into State care. Fiona doesn’t know her absent father was the disgraced God of Love. Growing up, she suffers abuse and bullying and begins to see Otherworld creatures such as trolls and faeries, and worries for her sanity. Fiona discovers she has a physical strength beyond what is normal, and can fight the bullies, but is branded as violent and held in an Institution for the criminally insane. She is released on her eighteenth birthday into a hostel in Dublin City, Ireland.
Joey, one of the bullies who made her past miserable, is now a Dublin gang member. They meet but agree to forget the past and romance blossoms. But someone is killing his friends, former bullies, now gang members, and Joey fears he is next. Meanwhile, the Celtic Goddess Danu of Otherworld has discovered Fiona’s existence and wants her dead. The Drimnagh Witches are tasked to find her and Wizard Drowe is released from Otherworld prison tasked to kill her. Fiona survives his initial attempt to murder her and befriends him before entering a strange, mystical Otherworld beyond her current reality. She has to figure out how to survive in both worlds, on the tough streets of Dublin and in Otherworld.
In Irish Mythology, Otherworld is a happy land and Underworld is a foul land. These worlds exist alongside Earth. Wizard Drowe is sentenced to be a swan, but he escapes. He has tricked Ciarán, his apprentice into becoming the swan. Granny and Aoife pursue the swan because Granny believes it will lead her to her lost village. Hunted by Wizard Drowe and the vampire Dearg-due, Ciarán and Aoife move from initial dislike to romance. These in turn are pursued by Venus and the Drimnagh Witches, servants of the Faerie Queen. Behind the scenes Druid Lochlain manoeuvres to replace the Faerie Queen. The finale takes place in the O'Cinnéide Village, accessed through a capstone on the remote Eagle Mountain.
List of principal characters:
* Faerie Queen -ruler of Otherworld.
*Venus- a magic cat, set the task of solving the mystery of the lost O'Cinnéide village.
*Druid Lochlain - current Chief Minister to the Faerie Queen.
*Wizard Drowe - former Chief Minister, sentenced to be a swan for sedition.
*Ciarán - trainee wizard, tricked into becoming a swan by Wizard Drowe.
*Aoife - Eighteen year old maiden who must kiss the swan to break the spell.
*Granny to Aoife -witch member of the O'Cinnéide coven. Seeking her lost village.
*The Drimnagh Witches -powerful coven faithful to the Faerie Queen.
*Dearg-due- Legendary Irish vampire, associate of Wizard Drowe
Annabel is an unmarried, childless, thirty-five year old self-made billionaire based in Monaco.
Robert is a renowned heart surgeon based in Ireland, aged forty.
LiChan is Vietnamese and she is Annabel's personal assistant.
Simon Beauvoir is Annabel’s uncle and he runs her bank.
Charlotte Rossi is Psychiatrist to both Annabel and LiChan.
Barty is Robert’s friend, convalescing in Italy after a heart operation, with his wife Mona.
Yolanda is a twenty year old, working in a boat yard where Robert stops to earn some cash cleaning boats.
Howard is a Texan multi-millionaire whom Annabel is considering to become the father of her intended children
Griggs is Annabel's Head of Security and also her butler. He and the chauffeur Taylor, are both gay and in a relationship.
Robert is tramping across the south of France, aiming to meet his friend and patient, Barty, in Italy. As part of the challenge he has set himself, he is working and hitching his way across to Italy, not having brought any cash or cards to finance his journey.
Annabel is on her way back via Nice, to Monaco, after a gruelling business trip. She drives a top of the range red jaguar car.
Annabel, on route from Nice airport, feeling exhausted and worried she might fall asleep at the wheel, parks in the car park at the start of the Promenade des Anglais, to take fresh air before driving on to Monaco.
Robert is sleeping as a tramp under the promenade.
Prostitutes are using the car park as a base in order to serve the airport trade.
When Annabel is mugged she screams for help and is rescued by Robert. Robert thinks she is a prostitute and she thinks he is an alcoholic tramp. Subsequently, they sit together and as they converse, they warm to each other, but they don't expect their meeting to be more than a passing of two ships in the night. But later they make love in her Jaguar. They part, but don’t realise they have fallen in love. The story shows how they get back together
Janet is unattached, beautiful and ambitious.
Jeremy is a Gay, troubled self-made Irish billionaire, living with his partner David.
Both are London based and are in Ireland for different reasons. However both become involved with the O’Byrne family.
Janet is Crawford’s lead analyst on an aggressive takeover of the large fast growing O’Byrne family business. But all Crawford really wants is Janet.
Jeremy has a secret. He has not ‘come out’ in Ireland. He dates Dorothy O’Byrne with an ulterior motive. He wants her along when he meets his mother twenty years after he ran away to London from his studies for the priesthood.
But Janet discovers the bedside charms of Peter O’Byrne and Jeremy finds that Dorothy’s dominant approach turns him on.
The doorbell went at dawn. The police were there to arrest Edward for rape. When the case is dropped due to insufficient evidence, policewoman Kelly is outraged. She decides Edward will not get away with rape. Kelly, and her housemate Maeve, were childhood victims of abuse. Now, as catharsis for their trauma, they search out and castrate men who get away with rape. Janet, his rape victim, helps them set the trap to blackmail Edward. But Janet wants a different punishment for Edward.
Trapped, Edward is forced choose between ten to fifteen years in jail or becoming Kelly's naked slave for six months. Edward signs up for domination and feminisation, but is promised earlier release if he helps kidnap a pernicious child abuser. Janet suffers from Dyspraxia, affecting her ability to form friendships and deal with the world at large. She lives in prosperous circumstances with her two aunts.
But all is not well. Aunt Elizabeth is slipping into a schizophrenic world of illusions. Aunt Julia has started an affair with Paddy, a married man with three children. Sarah, a long-time family friend, is falling on hard times due to her gambling alcoholic husband. Sarah offers to help Julia manage her sister at home if Julia will agree to a lesbian relationship with Sarah as her mistress. Janet, pregnant as a result of the rape, has decided to leave this household and comes up with a surprising solution.
Irish Mythology and modern Multi-universe theory meet in an action adventure.
A pre-Celtic artifact transforms into a bracelet and climbs up your arm. And now you can speak any language. And you can travel ‘time-lines’. Imagine a multiuniverse with a ‘Time-line’ for every possible future and present.
When Kate, the daughter of an American Professor, finds the bracelet, she and her friends are catapulted into the ‘Time-lines’.
Into a Time-line of modern day sophisticated Raptor dinosaurs that regard humans as gourmet food.
And they also walk with modern Pharaohs of Egypt.
Conchobar is a teenage run-away from ‘Tir-na- Nogh’ (Celtic mythological ‘Land of the Young.’) He has lost his bracelet to Asil, the daughter of a farmer who is a modern Raptor in his Time-line.
Harrington, their Shoggoth (a being who performs a task) is actually a reporter with the prestigious Irish Times.
The Jamaican aunt of Kate’s friend Lana accidentally uses Obeah magic to make Harrington fall in love with her, and the children have to bring him across the Time-lines to break the spell.
He becomes the Oracle in the ‘Chapel of the Hearing Ear’ in the Time–line of the modern Pharaoh, the ruler of the Western World.
The Egyptians think the Raptor Asil, in reality a teenager, is ‘Wepwawet, the jackal God of Abydos, Lord of the Necroplis.’
The Raptors want to use Conchobar’s bracelet to transport the humans across from the Egyptian Time- line to sell them in their Raptor Time- line as ‘gourmet food.’ They offer to make Conchobar the Pharaoh if he will help them.
Kate and her team, aided by policewoman Mary, set out to put a stop to all this.
Recognising that Leprechauns are an endangered species, plans are put in place to restock the population.
In doing so two twins, a brother and a sister, are accidently recruited and due to technical magic difficulties they have to be returned to modern San Francisco. But they need new bodies. This is arranged by Venus, the strategic planner and former cat of the Druid Lochlain. However all does not go smoothly.
In modern Sann Francisco Druid Lochlain arrives as does the mythical Grey Man with the 'embrace of death.' Druid Lochlain has failed in an attempted coup and is biding his time for the next attempt. Here you will meet the druid, Venus the cat, Puca the poodle, drug cartels, Vampires and the undead, and Gentle Michael the Leprechaun who has come on vacation to check out the twins, his former students.
A mixture of modern urban life and fantasy as Irish Mythological creatures clash in the chaos of modern San Francisco.
Connor is a young, successful, conservative, tax accountant. His life changes when a short man in a leprechaun suit seeks his tax assistance in the matter of gold mines. Conned into visiting Ireland, Connor meets the beautiful Megan and her attractive witch of a mother Morag. He is ritually murdered, suffocated, kidnapped and revived. On his return to New York he is in the power of Live Corporation, a hedge fund seeking niche markets in evil. They require, as part of his management development, that he recover fifty million dollars from the son of an African Dictator. In addition he is required to provide cremated remains of ten happy people so that he can complete a ceremony to become an evil Druid. Megan reveals that she is madly in love with Connor and Megan's attractive mother wonders why, if he won't sleep with her daughter, he won't try her. How will Connor cope with all this disruption to his normal peaceful life?
The doorbell went at dawn. The police were there to arrest Edward for rape.When the case is dropped due to insufficient evidence, policewoman Kelly is outraged. She decides Edward will not get away with rape.Kelly, and her housemate Maeve, were childhood victims of abuse. Now, as catharsis for their trauma, they search out and castrate men who get away with rape. Janet, his rape victim, helps them set the trap to blackmail Edward. But Janet wants a different punishment for Edward. Trapped, Edward is forced choose between ten to fifteen years in jail or becoming Kelly's naked slave for six months.Edward signs up for domination and feminisation, but is promised earlier release if he helps kidnap a pernicious child abuser. Janet suffers from Dyspraxia, affecting her ability to form friendships and deal with the world at large. She lives in prosperous circumstances with her two aunts. But all is not well. Aunt Elizabeth is slipping into a schizophrenic world of illusions. Aunt Julia has started an affair with Paddy, a married man with three children. Sarah, a long-time family friend, is falling on hard times due to her gambling alcoholic husband. Sarah offers to help Julia manage her sister at home if Julia will agree to a lesbian relationship with Sarah as her mistress.Janet, pregnant as a result of the rape, has decided to leave this household and comes up with a surprising solution.
Irish Mythology meets modern ideas of multiple Universes in a humorous adventure. A pre-Celtic artifact transforms into a bracelet and climbs up your arm. And now you can speak any language. And you can travel 'time-lines'. Imagine a 'Time-line' for every possible future and present. When Kate, the eleven-year-old daughter of an American Professor, finds the bracelet, she and her friends are catapulted into the 'Time-lines'. Into a Time-line of modern day sophisticated Raptor dinosaurs that regard humans as gourmet food. And they also walk with modern Pharaohs of Egypt. Conchobar is a run-away teenager from 'Tir-na- Nogh' (Celtic mythological 'Land of the Young.') He has lost his bracelet to Asil, the daughter of a farmer who is a modern Raptor in his Time-line. Harrington, their Shoggoth (a being who performs a task) is actually a reporter with the prestigious Irish Times. The Jamaican aunt of Kate's friend Lana accidentally uses Obeah magic to make Harrington fall in love with her, and the children have to bring him across the Time-lines to break the spell. He becomes the Oracle in the 'Chapel of the Hearing Ear' in the Time-line of the modern Pharaoh, the ruler of the Western World. The Egyptians think the Raptor Asil, in reality a teenager, is 'Wepwawet, the jackal God of Abydos, Lord of the Necroplis.' The Raptors want to use Conchobar's bracelet to transport the humans across from the Egyptian Time- line to sell them in their Raptor Time- line as 'gourmet food.' They offer to make Conchobar the Pharaoh if he will help them. Kate and her team, aided by policewoman Mary, set out to put a stop to all this.
