Event planner Samantha Hunter is prepared for a few challenges when escorting a group of good ole boy beer distributors to Paris, the city of haute cuisine and fine wines. However, she doesn’t foresee being passed up for a promotion because she is too professional and doesn’t knock back beers with her clients. Her focus soon switches from landing the well-deserved promotion to finding her free-spirited sister, who lives in Paris and has disappeared, leaving behind family secrets to be uncovered. A sexy puppeteer helps Samantha search for clues to her sister’s whereabouts and teaches her to embrace her inner child. And a funeral-crashing psychic demonstrates the importance of living life to the fullest. It takes Samantha’s life spiraling out of control for her to finally get a life.

Kissing My Old Life Au Revoir

Literature & Fiction

Watson, Eliza

Women's Fiction

Elizabeth Watson

Why run from your troubles when you can fly instead? When Caity Shaw is fired from her first job that doesn’t require an elf uniform, her older sister, Rachel, an event planner, hires her to work a meeting in Dublin. Caity jumps at the opportunity to travel abroad and escape her pathetic life. However, even four thousand miles from home, there’s no avoiding debt collectors, an overbearing mother, and haunting memories of a controlling ex. While in Dublin, Caity suffers a series of humiliating mishaps, causing her to lose even more faith in herself. Caity struggles to earn Rachel’s respect—and to keep Declan, her hot Irish coworker, at arm’s length. Declan repeatedly saves Caity’s butt and helps boost her self-confidence, making it difficult to keep her distance from the charming womanizer. When Declan helps her research her Irish grandmother, Caity discovers the mysterious past of the courageous woman she barely knew might hold the answers to her future.

Flying by the Seat of My Knickers (The Travel Mishaps of Caity Shaw)

Contemporary

What do you do when the City of Love doesn’t love you?Caity Shaw takes on Paris and her next event planner job with a bit more confidence—which is immediately shot down when she’s forced to take responsibility for a six-year-old brat. They’re kicked out of a famous museum, and she goes from being a glamorous event planner—for a funeral directors’ group—to a reluctant au pair. Just what she doesn’t need as she struggles to regain self-esteem whittled away by an emotionally abusive ex-boyfriend.Declan, Caity’s hot Irish coworker, helps her maintain her sanity and sense of humor when she is repeatedly thrown out of places in Paris. He also perpetuates her facade as an experienced planner, a goal she’ll never achieve if she’s spending her days at puppet shows. Caity and Declan spend evenings exploring Paris and researching her Irish grandmother’s mysterious past, uncovering secrets that could tear Caity’s family apart. Declan reveals his own secret, which might bring Caity and him closer, despite her attempts to keep an emotional distance from the charming womanizer. However, the only way to help Declan open up and heal might be to confide in him about her past. Caity finally has faith in herself—can she learn to have faith that others won’t judge her mistakes?

Up the Seine Without a Paddle (The Travel Mishaps of Caity Shaw)

What do you do when your Christmas goes from white to blue?Despite a few setbacks, Caity Shaw's future no longer looks as emotionally and financially bleak as it did a few months ago. Rather than working as an elf this holiday season, she is the head photographer for a group event in Dublin. Not only is Caity mending family ties, she's learning to trust men again, thanks to her hot Irish coworker, Declan.That is, until Declan and Caity visit rural Ireland and their relationship comes to a crossroads. Declan's family welcomes Caity into their home with open arms, but they are tight-lipped when it comes to sharing memories that could send Declan running from his past--just when Caity is learning to face hers. However, facing her grandmother's mysterious past is a different story. With the help of her quirky Irish rellies and a local historian, Caity uncovers secrets about her grandmother that may cause her family ties to unravel once again.When Caity experiences her biggest mishap to date, everyone is forced to face their pasts and nobody's life will be the same.

My Christmas Goose Is Almost Cooked (The Travel Mishaps of Caity Shaw)

What do you do when your life of travel begins to unravel?Caity Shaw has come a long way since her appearance as a sausage at her first meeting in Dublin. The shadow of her abusive ex is fading. Learning about her Irish grandmother's past has brought her family closer together. She's building confidence as an event planner, along with her client list. And she's no longer always flying by the seat of her knickers while traveling abroad. However, she is nervous about flying solo at her first meeting without her sister, Rachel, or her Irish love, Declan.When Caity travels to the fairy-tale city of Prague, grim reality soon sets in. She's stuck working in a historic hotel with her archenemy, a psycho planner, and a resident ghost. The romantic notion of meeting Declan in exotic locales is proving more difficult than she'd imagined. Maintaining balance between her professional and personal lives is becoming a losing battle. And when she's wrongly accused of a crime, she must fight to prove her innocence.Everything Caity has worked so hard for-Declan, her reputation, and family relationships-begins to bite the dust

My Wanderlust Bites the Dust (The Travel Mishaps of Caity Shaw)

Identity Crisis

Romance

Romantic Suspense

Before Caity Shaw, there was Samantha Hunter... Event planner Samantha Hunter is prepared for a few challenges when escorting a group of good ole boy beer distributors to Paris, the city of haute cuisine and fine wines. However, she doesn't foresee being passed up for a promotion because she is too professional and doesn't knock back beers with her clients. Her focus soon switches from landing the well-deserved promotion to finding her free-spirited sister, who lives in Paris and has disappeared, leaving behind family secrets to be uncovered. A sexy puppeteer helps Samantha search for clues to her sister's whereabouts and teaches her to embrace her inner child. And a funeral-crashing psychic demonstrates the importance of living life to the fullest. It takes Samantha's life spiraling out of control for her to finally get a life.

Humor & Satire

In 2007 a twelve-day trip to Ireland-my ancestors' homeland-turned out to be the most significant turning point in my life. I never dreamed when I embarked on my adventure it would lead to me becoming a genealogist, meeting dozens of Irish rellies, writing two fiction book series set in Ireland, and buying a renovated 1887 schoolhouse in my Coffey ancestors' townland. Since that trip, I've researched more than twenty-five of my maternal and paternal Irish lines as well as several Scottish ones. I've also assisted friends and family members with ancestry research in Austria, Canada, England, Germany, Hungary, and the United States. Besides conducting online research, I have visited numerous historical archives, traipsed through hundreds of cemeteries (many now situated in sheep-filled fields), and located several family homesteads. In 2018 I began writing a genealogy column for my monthly author newsletter about my personal research experiences. Because I was writing articles faster than I was publishing newsletters, I decided to compile them into a book. Genealogy Tips & Quips includes: <ul><li>twenty-five newsletter articles</li><li>twenty-five brand-new articles</li><li>a case study about how a paternal DNA test revealed my family's royal lineage and my quest to uncover family secrets</li><li>an extensive case study on tracing my most difficult family line back to the 1700s in Ireland</li></ul> Be prepared for a lot of unexpected twists and turns as I share my mistakes, lessons learned, and tips for getting to the roots of your family tree

Genealogy Tips & Quips

Reference

Genealogy

It's been a rough year for 26-year-old Mags Murray. First she learns that her dad isn't her biological father, a secret her mother took to her grave three years earlier. Then her beloved Irish grandmother passes away at Christmas while Mags is visiting her from the States. Now Mags must host her grandmother's wake and sell her cottage. A cottage filled with cherished memories. A cottage Mags inherited but her odd jobs won't enable her to keep. Shortly after the funeral, a young man, Finn O'Brien, arrives at the cottage with an old photograph. Finn believes the boys in the photo are a clue to his father's identity. Mags can sympathize with him, and because she often helped her genealogist grandmother uncover skeletons in people's closets, including herself, she agrees to assist Finn. But searching for Finn's father stirs up trouble. Finn is in a near-fatal car crash that wasn't an accident. So Mags and her childhood friend Biddy McCarthy investigate why someone wants to prevent Finn from finding his father. Questioning the quirky locals proves a wee bit difficult as several of the suspects were victims of Mags and Biddy's childhood shenanigans. It might take a fake Irish wake to reveal Finn's father and the would-be murderer. But what if the two turn out to be the same person?

How to Fake an Irish Wake: A Cozy Mystery Set in Ireland (A Mags and Biddy Genealogy Mystery)

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Mystery

Bowker

After inheriting her grandmother’s cottage, Mags Murray moves from the States to rural Ireland to embark on a new life. Her odd seasonal jobs won’t pay for the needed repairs on her home, so Mags is determined to become a full-time genealogist, following in her grandmother’s footsteps. She starts by organizing a DNA support group that encourages members to share research tips and provide moral support to frustrated family historians.\nMags soon lands her first client, but not the kind she’d expected. A group member, Aidan, hires Mags to find a stolen family heirloom—a valuable unpublished manuscript written by a famous Irish author. Shortly after hiring her, Aidan also turns up missing. His brother hires Mags and her sidekick, Biddy, to find both Aidan and the manuscript. He guarantees them a cut of the manuscript’s sale price. Rather than spending the money on an exotic trip as she would have in the past, Mags dreams of buying a shiny new riding lawn mower and a fuel tank.\nWill the money they stand to make be worth the risk of uncovering a dark family secret and chasing down forgers, an ex-con, and other dodgy suspects?

How to Snare a Dodgy Heir: A Cozy Mystery Set in Ireland (A Mags and Biddy Genealogy Mystery)

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Kissing My Old Life Au Revoir

Flying by the Seat of My Knickers (The Travel Mishaps of Caity Shaw)

Up the Seine Without a Paddle (The Travel Mishaps of Caity Shaw)

My Christmas Goose Is Almost Cooked (The Travel Mishaps of Caity Shaw)

My Wanderlust Bites the Dust (The Travel Mishaps of Caity Shaw)

Identity Crisis

Kissing My Old Life Au Revoir

Genealogy Tips & Quips

How to Fake an Irish Wake: A Cozy Mystery Set in Ireland (A Mags and Biddy Genealogy Mystery)

How to Snare a Dodgy Heir: A Cozy Mystery Set in Ireland (A Mags and Biddy Genealogy Mystery)