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Patrick Francis Rooney was born and raised in Albuquerque, New Mexico, to parents who immigrated to America from Ireland as teenagers after World War II. He lived in Texas and Northern Virginia for several years before he planted roots in Colorado. A software architect in the computer industry, he now devotes most of his time to writing fiction and playing music. Patrick has degrees in Music Composition, Computer Engineering, and an MBA. He uses his experience working in these fields to develop the settings and characters in his novels.

The Angel of Innisfree is a Victorian-era historical romance that weaves a story of love overcoming every obstacle during one of the most tumultuous periods in history, when revolutions in Europe and the Civil War in the United States transformed the basic foundations of society, while inventions such as the telegraph changed the way the world worked. It begins in 1848, a time when the Irish Potato Famine had already claimed half a million lives, while English landlords continued to evict their tenants with a ruthless lack of compassion. Young Brian O’Rourke, a Catholic son in an impoverished family of Ribbonmen meets Elizabeth Reilly, a talented Protestant pianist from London when she’s visiting her father in Ireland. After secretly promising themselves to each other at the age of sixteen, their twisted fates encounter unforeseen difficulties when Elizabeth returns to London to study piano with Chopin while Brian immigrates to America on a famine ship. Brian joins the nascent telegraph industry where he uses his expertise to help slaves escape on the Underground Railroad. He then travels to California to work on the Transcontinental Telegraph and to Washington to help President Lincoln during the Civil War, while Elizabeth launches a successful career as a concert pianist in Europe and America. Their enduring romance captures the passionate spirits of two people determined to find each other regardless of the forces conspiring to keep them apart.

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Category: Romance; History

A CIA spy recruits a Wall Street securities trader to help her track down a surreptitious nest of terrorists manipulating the stock market in this decade-spanning espionage thriller. It begins in 1987, when the prevailing winds of Glasnost have caught the Russian leadership by surprise. . . catapulting the confusion caused by the impending breakup of the Soviet Union to new levels. For KGB agent Mikhail Volkov, the chaos provides something else altogether-An opportunity to steal four nuclear weapons from a Russian test facility. Sean McGowan, a software engineer in the securities industry, has come a long way from the trailer park where he grew up in New Mexico. He leads an exciting life now, with wealth, influence, and the company of beautiful women, until Volkov comes after him to expropriate his ultra-fast derivatives trading program. CIA Agent Beate Nicholson recruits Sean to help her track down financiers manipulating the stock markets. But first they must use their computer skills to thwart a massive cyber-attack against the world's banking system perpetrated using a multi-player gaming platform. Sean and Beate's collaboration leads them to the doorstep of a rogue's gallery of sinister figures, including white-collar jihadist Rahim Delacroix—who wreaks revenge against the infidels that killed his family; and the mysterious John Napoleon, leader of the Protectorate—an environmental syndicate committed to saving the planet by seizing control of the world's resources. Sean and Beate watch in helpless disbelief as terrorists strike Europe. Can they connect all the dots in time to collar the villains before they inflict even more destruction?

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Category: Mystery, Thriller & Suspense