Clíodhna's Refuge

A desperate mother and daughter escape from a brutal man, but their only refuge lies with an online acquaintance, a man they’ve never met in real life, who’s offered them a weekend on his sailboat. Are they leaping out of the frying pan and into the fire?

Laura would do anything to protect her daughter, and Cass, feisty and precocious, is nothing if not her mother’s daughter. When Laura and Cass finally escape the brutality of Laura’s husband, Eric, they only have one to seek refuge with Kyle, a man Laura only knows from social media, someone she’s never actually met.

Kyle spent the last months of his life restoring a sailboat, which he christened Clíodhna, that would take him and his Siberian cat, Damnit, far into the Pacific where he hoped fate would finally take him. On a whim, he’d invited Laura and her family for a weekend cruise before his final voyage, having no idea of the whirlwind of change they’d bring to his life.

Beaten by his own daughter before she and his wife escaped, Eric is determined to kill Laura and Kyle, then bend Cass to his will. After Kyle outwits him, Eric reaches out to an old compadre from his drug-dealing days, making a deal with a fellow devil to finish off Kyle and offering up Laura and Cass as collateral.

Clíodhna’s Refuge is a blend of romance, action, and adventure on the sea and on land that will keep you reading late into the night.

Trigger this book contains some scenes of domestic violence and threats of child abuse.