Excerpt Tour & Giveaway: Selkie's Song By Clare Austin

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Excerpt Tour & Giveaway for

Selkie's Song

By Clare Austin

Book #3 in the Fado Trilogy

About Selkie's Song

They call her Selkie. Muireann O'Malley often felt she was born of the sea but refuses to let sentimentality stand in the way of her crusade to protect the shore she has wandered since a small child. A patch of West Clare, Ireland, and a derelict building are all that stand between the cliffs she loves and the callous grip of progress.

Tynan Sloane should be content with success, but a dream beckons. O'Fallon's Pub in historic downtown Boston is for sale and Tynan wants to make it his. An unexpected inheritance of land in the west of Ireland could provide the financing he needs. He doesn't expect his quick trip to sell the land to rekindle youthful passion.

Fifteen years ago, they had an adolescent crush. Now disparate ambition and a legend as old as Ireland herself stand between them. Will love and myth collide to bring them together or tear them apart?

Exclusive Excerpt

At a large corner table with bench seats, a tall,

grey-haired crag of a man sat tuning his guitar. Across

the way sat a fiddler with fingers so stubby, if Ty hadn’t

known others like him, he would have wondered how

those hands could coax milk from a cow let alone a

tune from a violin. Simon O’Flaherty, like a man

wrestling an octopus, fitted together the puzzling mass

of tubes and reeds of uilleann pipes.

Soon jigs and reels flowed one into another. More

musicians came and the crowd grew to stretch the

walls. Ty regretted having given up his seat. He leaned

a hip on a barstool and sipped the remains of his pint.

“Can I get you another?” The publican reached for

his glass to refill it.

Ty knew he should wave him off, claiming he’d

had his limit, but he felt a need to fit in here, soak up

the camaraderie, feel his roots. “A whiskey. Thanks.”

He studied the room. Cait was looking fine, and he

wondered if he had drunk her pretty over the last hours.

Fishermen, their faces ruddied by the wind and the sea,

talked of the catch, the price of salmon, the weather.

Farmers chewed over the breeding of sheep or cows

and if the rain would come or go to make a good

harvest.

Snatches of gossip—whose land was for sale, high

taxes, would Connaught beat Wicklow, who’d been

seen walking out with whom. And everyone, it seemed,

had a comment on the front page of today’s newspaper.

“Feeney was madder than a bag of cats…It’s

throwing apples into an orchard to try to reason with

him…Give Turlough’s girl some credit…Ah, now,

what she needs is a husband and a house full of babies

and she’ll forget about her seals…” Each one had his or

her solution to the problems of the village, if not the

world.

About Author Clare Austin

A word about the author...

Clare Austin submitted her first manuscript to a publisher at the age of eight years. She wishes she still had that rejection letter.

Many years and not a few stories later, with characters knocking at the inside of her cranium and begging to be released, Clare’s romantic comedy, Butterfly, was published. There followed a suspenseful sequel, Angel’s Share, and Hot Flash, a women’s fiction/romance for mature women and the men who love them.

Clare lives in the beautiful Rocky Mountains and enjoys her horses, playing her violin, and traveling to Ireland every summer.

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Clare will be awarding a print (US only) or digital copies (international) of the first two books in the series, Butterfly and Angel's Share to a randomly drawn commenter during the tour.

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