Welcome to the home for the cross-genre writer,
Killian McRae.
History is Killian's primary love in life, outside her family and, yes, sadly her dog. Therefore, her works of fiction often are packaged inside historical wrappers, as she tugs and twists on the edges of reality to ask the ever-present "What if?"
Born and raised in rural Michigan, Killian used the local library- a single room in a her village's firehouse- as an escape, before actually escaping to the relative jungle of Ann Arbor and the University of Michigan. There, after several minor attempts to establish a major, she finally completed a BA in Turkic History and nearly attempted a Bachelors of Music in Vocal Performance. ("Theys call it the opry 'round these parts," she says in her heavy, Michiganian accent.)
Though she had written three novels before graduating high school, she never thought of trying to until well into her 30's. 12.21.12 was her first published work, released in late 2010. A second work, "A Love by Any Measure," is a historical romance set in 1860's Ireland and is due out in Fall 2011.
Killian is a member of Stanford University's Writer's Certificate program and a PRO member of the Romance Writers of America. Her other interests include musicology and history. She currently lives in the San Francisco Bay area, though she is quite often unhappy about this fact.
The only way to save the future is to decode the past. The only way to decode the past is to save the future.
Archeaologist Sheppard Smyth has staked his career and the honorable memory of his wife and partner on proving his widely panned theory: Cleopatra VII, the last sovereign pharaoh of Egypt, was not a victim of suicide as history suggests, but of a well-concealed murder. When a statue of the doomed Queen is unearthed in a pre-Columbian excavation site in Mexico, Shep rushes to investigate and, hopefully, find the proof that has evaded him for so long. The statue, however, is only the first clue suggesting a mysterious connection between Mesopotamia and Mesoamerica, and possibly - beyond. Suddenly thrust into the heated rivalry between sexy and enigmatic antiquities thief Victoria Kent and the infamous Russian mofiosa Dmitri Kronastia, Shep finds himself a common pawn played by forces working to see out a quest older than the pyramids and cloaked in the Mayan Doomsday prophecy of 12.21.12.
Lord August Grayson is a self-admitted English bastard. Or so he would like to have the beautiful Maeve OConnor believe. Secretly, August has dreamt of the girl living on his familys tenancy since childhoods spent together in Killarney. He knows, however, that a poor Irish Catholic girl would never be accepted in his world of propriety and pomp, but isn't about to let a chance to have her, even if only in his bed, pass him by.
Maeve OConnor owns nothing in this world or the next but her good name, which proves just enough to net a proposal for a marriage of convenience to a good, Irish lad. Though she dreams of home and hearth with a man she truly loves, poverty and her father's care limit her options. When Maeve seeks clemency on her family's rent until she weds, August seizes the opportunity to present her with an alternative way to settle her debts. Allowing twice as long on each succeeding visit, she must permit him to do whatever he wishes in pursuit of his pleasure. Starting with a mere five seconds, pulses soon outrace the ticking clock, as Augusts pleasure and passion become Maeve's own.
Working to bridge that which divides them, tempting fate with each stolen kiss and torn between desire and obligation, Maeve and August strive to overcome all and find a love by any measure..
Keep Time
The empire of andresium is threatened by the corruption of the Immortals, ancient beings given the gift of eternal life by the last reigning empress. A prophecy speaks of their downfall however, at the hands of one of their own, Tallis. Known by most simply as "the Loren," Tallis seeks to avoid her destiny while trying herself to remain untainted by their rotting morals. As she falls further and further from her ideals, the only hope for Andresium and for Tallis's soul lay in the hands of a mysterious sorcerer who seeks her heart as well as her surrender.
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