Dermot Michael Coyne and Nuala Anne McGrail are reunited in Chicago, where Nuala has moved to make a new life for herself. An accountant by day, she sings in a local pub at night with dreams of making it big. The way her Celtic beauty and charm enchant everyone who meets her, she seems sure to succeed. The most enchanted of all is her faithful protector and would-be suitor, Dermot, who compares Nuala to Irish lace - "thin and delicate and pretty,...

Dermot Micahel Coyne isn't sure what he's gooten himself into. Nuala Anne McGrail, that beautiful and vivacious "Celtic witch," has finally agreed to marry him. Her spitfire personality is quite a challenge, but living with "a dark one," someone gifted with second sight, may be more than Dermot cantake.

Back on the Emerald Isle, Nuala and Dermot soon get the feeling that someone - or perhaps several someones - is out to get them. They find themselves dodging multiple explosions and someone starts shooting at our Nuala while she is water-skiing in the cold Atlantic a la James Bond.

Becoming suspicious about facts surrounding a tragic vehicular homicide for which a young man blames himself, psychic Nuala Anne McGrail and her husband find the case complicated by a scandal involving the diary of a nineteenth-century priest.

When Nuala Anne, singer and sometime psychic, learns that Desmond Doolin, a peacenik young man from her Chicago neighborhood, has gone missing in the Middle East, she's convinced that he's still alive. But if U.S. government officials know Desmond's whereabouts, they're not talking, and finding him requires Nuala Anne and her adoring, dilettantish husband, Dermot Coyne, to research his path through the Middle East as well as pin down his relationship...

Nuala Anne McGrail, a fey, Irish-speaking woman blessed with the gift of second sight, and her husband and accomplice, Dermot Michael Coyne, investigate the brutal beating of Finnbar Burke, the "nice fella" with whom their shy, golden-haired nanny has fallen in love, who is found floating in the Chicago River. Set in late nineteenth-century Chicago.