Authorpreneur Dashboard – David Rory ONeill
The Prairie Companions
Literature & Fiction
A stunning evocation of a unique time and place—and a powerfully moving story of courage, commitment, love, loss, and endurance—this unforgettable saga follows two extraordinary young women from their boarding school in Victorian England to the North American wilderness.
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The story of Pat and Clara navigates across time and geography, from their girlhoods in Victorian England, to the great Canadian prairie that calls them to break ground on foreign soil. Defying convention, Pat’s ingenuity and pioneering spirit is in evidence long before she and Clara leave their families and rigid cultural restrictions behind. Together, hand-in-hand, these two very different personalities fearlessly overcome each obstacle that threatens to block their determination to forge a new life. Mutual dependence gives way to inclusiveness, as indigenous locals become part of their ever-expanding, chosen extended family. Embracing tribal rituals, Pat and Clara learn entirely new ways of seeing themselves and connecting with the natural world that surrounds them. David Rory O’Neill’s compelling characters and finely researched back-story demonstrate how the industrial revolution altered agriculture, how intimacy grows over time, and how the bonds of love allow us to survive the blows that inevitably fall into each life, no matter how well-lived.
Surviving Beauty
Literature & Fiction
Regan was just seven years old when her mystical beauty became a curse rather than a gift. That was when her father began to ruthlessly profit by selling her image. The exploitation of youthful beauty is an eternal struggle of good and evil. A stubborn non-conformist Detective Inspector of the Garda is fighting that fight. DI Jim Burrows will play a critical role in Regan’s ability to survive and recover from that exploitation. Regan’s journey from childhood to womanhood will be thrilling and dangerous but ultimately it will be a warm and inspiring story of a young girl’s brave journey to adulthood, her struggle to survive the exploitation of her innocence, and above all - the healing power of love.
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A simple question framed on the book's cover, above the image of a sun-kissed blonde, her perfectly wide-set eyes brimming with innocence, hints at the controversial topics probed within David Rory O'Neill's courageous and compelling novel: "Can Regan survive the exploitation of her beauty?" The title itself suggests what many of us know full well, yet fail to consciously acknowledge. An element of danger accompanies the attribute of beauty. This first volume of the "West Cork Trilogy" takes readers into young Regan's world, where shadows stalk her every move throughout the precious days, months and years of her late childhood and early adolescence. Well paced chapters introduce a growing cast of finely developed characters, bringing intensity, suspense, confrontation, rescue and retribution. The heroic force embodied by Detective Inspector Jim Burrows breaks the grip of evil that has held Regan and her friend Mary in a state of bondage. But wounded creatures suffer from their unseen scars, long after the trap has been sprung. While the coping mechanisms that served to support Regan's survival are no longer needed, they remain fixed at the core of her being. Marcia Quinn-Noren
Leotie
Literature & Fiction
A tale of love and time. Leotie suffered as she grew rounder, taller and more beautiful than her cousins and sisters and aunts. She was no longer of her band and they called her names and thought her mother must have lain with a white-man so they called Leotie: Métis-Mistik, meaning ‘mixed-race tree.’ No more flower of the prairie, Leotie left her band and her lands and travelled west. She traveled in space and time.
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A tale of erotic romance out of time.
You know the feeling when you meet some one and think: "I know this person." Then when your relationship evolves you think: "I've always known this person, we were meant to be." Leotie and Aaron are meant to be united. Through all time in all places they are united.
Blue Sky Orphan: The West Cork Trilogy
Literature & Fiction
: Emma Montgomery lives in rural West Cork but travels the world as a Captain-pilot working for a corporate jet charter company. Her early life was marked by abuse but Emma found escape and healing playing in the blue sky, first in her imagination, and then in her own aircraft. Emma feels safe alone up in her element. Her past still haunts and the long buried memories seeping through growing cracks threaten her security. Increasingly she is pushing the envelope seeking escape in dangerous flirtations both in the air and on the ground in her personal, social, and sexual encounters. Emma, the blue-sky orphan, is in grave danger. She is an extreme risk taker. The adrenalin rush is her escape from her past-life baggage. This is bad enough when it is sexual risk taking, but in the air the potential for going too far is worrying to all who know her.
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In the opening pages we find Emma the pilot, alone in the blue sky, bursting with the joy that comes from feeling such freedom, yet risk-taking, once again. For her, this is an all-too familiar game; cheating death, one more time. Taking risks has become more than second nature for Emma, it is part of her essence. She doesn't know how to live any other way. All changes when Emma steps out of the comfort zone of her compatible partnership with the enigmatic Peter, into the world of his past, and the people and places he had kept secret from her. Becoming introduced to Lauren and Daniel, two primary characters who populated that world, would open her, change and break her, then make her whole again. Bonny, who completes the inexplicable triad is an enchantress whose spell-casting mesmerises and captivates Emma. The mutual attraction between these powerful women is perfectly natural, but their acceptance of one another's power is utterly unlike what most of us have experienced. That power brings healing beyond measure to each of these individual women, and to the men who love them. Marcia Quinn-Noren
