Speak of a Wolf

Love and Longing. Sacrifice and Betrayal Ruarc Ó Treasaigh, the son of a royal Gaelic chieftain, obsesses over the mystery surrounding his older brother, Manus. Why did Manus leave Ireland and what brought him back? What happened to Manus in the seven years he stayed away? How did he become the coldly fearless, remote, and occasionally cruel man who fascinates and dominates the folk of Clan Ó Treasaigh? Ireland, in the opening decades of the 1500s, chafes under the yoke of England’s Tudor kings. Torn between his love for Nuala FitzStephen and his adoration for his brother, Ruarc navigates the dangerous waters of deception, treachery and rebellion. When Manus scandalizes the clan by conducting a tempestuous affair with Áine Mac Gaman, the Witch of the Mountain, and later embroils his people in the Silken Thomas FitzGerald Rebellion, Ruarc must chose: will he follow wherever Manus leads, or will he carve his own path? And can both brothers fend off childhood demons and lay the ghosts of the past in time to save their Irish Gaelic culture, their heritage and their people from the ravages of foreign invaders? Set in the wilds of western Connacht where the Otherworld stands as near as the next border and the Faerie Folk and the Dead are as likely to walk the land as are living mortals, Speak Of A Wolf brings to life the heroism and suffering, passion and romance, folklore and myth of sixteenth-century Ireland.