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In the Deadly Force series, which includes Every Deep Desire and the upcoming One Dark Wish , a group of disgraced ex-Green Berets are desperate to figure out who's responsible for their dishonor and discharges from the Army while they also battle two  disparate enemies. One of their enemies is known simply as the Fianna. A secretive and brutal army of assassins whose history dates back to pagan Irelend. Last month in Part 1, I wrote about the Fianna from the early Roman invasions up through the time of King Arthur. Today I'd like to jump ahead a bit to more modern accounts of these mythical warriors. In 1866, a group of Irish soldiers who called themselves the Fianna, assaulted British forts and trading stations in Canada. These are still known as the Fenian Raids. Their goal was to gain independence for Ireland from Britain. These men, after their capture, cited the seven articles of the ancient Fianna army as written in Keating's History of Ireland ...

Every Deep Desire  is the first in the Deadly Force romantic suspense series where ex-Green Berets and smart, sexy women redeem Shakespeare's greatest love stories. This team of ex-Special Forces soldiers, accused of vicious war crimes, is determined to prove their innocence and desperate to find the enemies who want to destroy them. Before time runs out and their enemies attack again. Photo by Thomas Tucker on Unsplash One of these enemies is a private army of brutal assassins known as the Fianna led by a man called the Prince. Rafe Montfort, the hero of Every Deep Desire was once a Green Beret who left his unit to work for the Prince, and has returned to Savannah, GA to protect his wife and his men he left behind. The problem is the Fianna have never let a man go and they're not about to start now. As the story unfolds Rafe's wife Juliet, and his men, learn who and what the Fianna are, and today I'd like to introduce you to the real Fianna of Pagan Irelan...

When I began writing my first romance HOW TO TAME A WILLFUL WIFE, I had no idea I was re-telling a play by Shakespeare. I dreamed of a woman and a man meeting in her bedroom, when he knew that they were engaged and she did not. The first chapters of the novel were born from that dream. I got up that morning, went to my writers group for tea and scones, and sat down and wrote the beginning of the book straight from the dream. Image courtesy of Pixomar/ FreeDigitalPhotos.net Of course, that was in 2007, and I spent many nights revising the novel since then. And as I was revising this book, which for years I called THE TAMING, I began to see that I was delving into my obsession with Shakespeare as well as into my obsession with romance. Needless to say, unlike Kate in The Taming of the Shrew , my heroine Caroline is not tamed. Indeed, she does her best to tame her gorgeous, stubborn husband, Anthony. Their battle of wills often ends up in bed, but as the novel goes on, ...

Please welcome Casablanca Author Christy English ! Her regency romance HOW TO TAME A WILLFUL WIFE is in stores this month—a regency take on The Taming of the Shrew… What is my new Regency Romance, HOW TO TAME A WILLFUL WIFE about? Tall, dark, unruly men and the women who stand up to them. One woman in particular, Caroline Montague. When my Regency hero Anthony Carrington comes home from the wars with Napoleon, he knows that he will marry his commanding officer’s daughter. What he doesn’t know is that she throws knives, rides astride her warhorse Hercules wearing breeches, and can outshoot any man with a bow and arrow. Not exactly the kind of bride he might find if he went hunting on the Marriage Mart. In this version of Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew , Anthony does his best to tame Caroline from the moment they meet. And Caroline, of course, will not be tamed. Though they discover they both have a taste for passion, and a passion for each other, it takes them t...

Over the Thanksgiving holiday, we celebrate three birthdays: my grandmother's, one of my kids and my husband's. Lately, Hubs has been into classic movies, and specifically Irene Dunn and/or Cary Grant movies. So I bought him His Girl Friday, Penny Serenade, Arsenic & Old Lace, Theodora Ges Wild, Together Again, The Doctor Takes a Wife and A Night to Remember. North by Northwest is on the list for Christmas. So, he's been having a good time watching all these oldies but goodies, which means that I finally get the remote. :) (Thank God for DVD drives on laptops, and earphones.) So I went to the guide and found The Empire Strikes Back, followed by Return of The Jedi. Great movies. None will ever beat the original Star Wars, but those two were worth watching. Although, I do cringe now at the bad acting on all three leads' parts, but, hey the guys were good to look at, so who cared? While I was watching Empire, I was trying to remember whether this was the second or thir...