Celtic Crossing

by Susan Delaney

Grace O’Malley and Gordie MacNeil seem to have it all. He’s a professional hockey player. She’s married to a successful real estate developer. But what looks like success feels hollow. The problem is that they’re living other people’s dreams. While Gordie endures a loveless marriage and dedicates himself to winning games for his Philadelphia team, he dares to imagine a less complicated future in his family’s ancestral home in the islands of Scotland. Grace puts up with a life she never wanted, shelving her artistic ability to play the part of a merely decorative wife. When one day Grace and Gordie see each other at one of his games, both their lives are changed forever. Will Grace, unintentionally named for a notorious pirate queen, dredge up latent buccaneer skills in order to get to know this man she feels so strangely drawn to? Will Gordie, gifted with Second Sight, forgo duty for once to meet this woman he recognizes from a teenage vision? Only time—and a crazy weekend in the Poconos—will tell.

480 pages, Paperback

First published September 11, 2015

About the author

Susan Delaney started life in the Midwest but moved east in early adulthood, first to Bucks County, Pennsylvania and then across the Delaware River to New Jersey. She has a passion for many things, including art (her degree is in Art History), travel (at least *being* in new places, rather than the flying involved in getting to them), ice hockey (lately just watching, but once also playing--though never very well), listening to music (folk, classical, and many other genres), and meeting interesting people (and most people are interesting once you get them telling their own personal stories). She has had a number of jobs, including strange ones in her youth - like ice painting and pickle-packing - and some less fascinating ones involving editing and proofreading and even typing (with two fingers - the way she has written her novels).