Lifelong friends and occasional rivals, Kevin Brennan and Patrick Donahue enter seminary together, but their lives soon diverge dramatically. Intellectual and independent, Kevin achieves success as a scholar but often finds himself at odds with his superiors in the church. And his unwavering principles threaten to cut him off from those closest to him, including the former sweetheart he has never forgotten. By contrast, the ambitious Patrick rises...

Dermot Coyne travels to Ireland to discover why his grandparents secretly fled during the Troubles, where he is aided in his search by the lovely Nuala McGrail, a student.

When an explosion rocks Ann's art gallery, the Deputy Superintendent of Police who is an old boyfriend, comes to investigate.

In Ireland for a visit, sleuths Nuala McGrail of Chicago and her husband, Dermot Coyne, investigate the murder of an Irish revolutionary who was killed 70 years ago. The probe is made possible by Nuala's psychic ability.

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...