On The Edge Of The Loch

By: Joseph Éamon Cummins

In this critically-acclaimed literary novel a man arrives in a tiny seafaring village in Ireland. His search is for a life, his own. But soon he is one of four impassioned people chasing incompatible dreams. They fight to connect, to stay sane, to defy fate, for the chance, ultimately, to love.

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Book Description

In Arizona, no one came to meet Irishman Tony MacNeill that day. After nine years locked up that's how he wanted it. All he needed was a life. Not the one that had been taken from him. Not the youthful one either. But the life he might have lived, to be who he was once meant to become. At fourteen he had lost that, his boyhood, and Ireland.

Now 27, to stay alive he'd held his own through a thousand rounds of trouble. But he was shedding the weight of injustice, barely, and managing.

Then Lenny Quin appears, out of the blue. To him she's an apparition that belongs to fantasy. Too much hopelessness and destruction had marred the years since he watched 'home' fade into vapour. Now, by irony, in this tiny seafaring village in western Ireland, the unlikeliest resurrection looms.

In all his darkness, a woman like Lenny Quin was undreamable; the love-inspired hope she promises forges in him an oath no one or no power will defeat.

Not that he desires trouble. But even here, in search of nothing but spirit, the warning signs were clear from their first meeting, even as their fires fused intimately. Soon, spine-chilling events erupt and force them apart. Secrets and silence fog what's true. And old wounds and new dreams collide.

Is the past a forever prison for each of them?

Is fate too powerful a foe? Against all that divides them, and for all they together might be, Tony MacNeill will once again become unstoppable.

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