“Lose the game,” she said. “Lose the game or everyone dies.”
A wave of euphoria is sweeping across the British Kingdom. Differences have been set aside and people are bound together by their devotion to the Guiding Principles of Joy and Compassion and their love for the Great Unifier – soccer.
The whole world wants to be a part of it, but for Josh Pittman, the world is a place he feels he doesn’t fit in. Bored, listless and somehow immune to the sporting paradise around him, he can’t even muster the enthusiasm to play in goal for his local team.
But when a chance encounter with a mysterious young woman leaves him with a broken nose, a stolen car and a warning that humanity is under attack from a hidden race of supernatural beings, Josh thinks he may have found his purpose in life – and someone to share it with. The only question is, what has any of it got to do with him?
As the final of the grandest international tournament in history looms and strange deaths at stadiums across the globe go unreported, Josh is whisked away on a journey through time and space to uncover the truth behind mankind’s very existence – and the role he is destined to play in what might just be the world’s worst case of mistaken identity…
Newly handfasted to the dark-haired archmage Lord Dal, Ellspeth and her husband escort his mother to her ancestral lands. When Dal is lured away by the rogue mage, Bashim, mercenaries severely wound Dal’s mother and capture Ellspeth. Her sole hope for escape is Nobyn, an untrained wizard going through the throes of awakening magic. However, Nobyn is Bashim’s apprentice and under the mage’s total control.
Dal must make an impossible decision whether to rescue his wife, cure his mother, or thwart Bashim’s plans. As archmage, Dal might be able to survive killing the future of magic, but as a man could he live with the knowledge he caused the death of a loved one.
Teresa MacEgan, a bold and restless American woman, is vacationing in Ireland. When she insists on riding out alone on Midsummer Eve, the old stablemaster gives her his finest horse: the “true mare.”
Riding into an ancient ring fort, Terri is swept back through the ages to a powerful Irish king. Terri loves this wild, beautiful place and soon King Conaire wishes to make her his queen.
But Terri fears that as queen, she will lose her freedom. Then she learns that the king has rivals determined to take all he has, including the woman he loves. Terri will have to choose between her old ways and a new life with Conaire– if they can save his kingdom before it is too late.
NOTE: Battlefield violence. Some brief scenes of sexual content. This book was first published by Dorchester in 1998. It has been given a re-edit by the author, along with a new cover, but is the same story as the original novel.
Each book in this series tells a complete story, so they may be read and enjoyed in any order.