A 12th century Irish woman sets out on the legendary voyage to America of Prince Madog of Wales.

Aisling, despite her best efforts has failed to become the seer her mother desired, so when her mother dies leaving her alone, she departs Ireland for Wales to be with her brother, Cormac, at the royal court at Gwynedd. There she finds he is joining Prince Madog's voyage to the western lands in order to escape the threatening war. After Madog refuses to let her come with them she stows away, desperate to remain with her brother. A terrible storm arises and she is tossed overboard by a resentful Welshman and washes up on the shores of the Gulf Coast. Caxna, a Tlingit trader and former shaman, finds her and reluctantly agrees to let her join him on a trading journey to the Mayan city of Xicallanca, and later Etowah (in modern day Georgia) in the hopes she might find Madog and her brother. Caxna must succeed in this trading journey in order to free his clan but with Aisling along everything changes.

Part of the Celtic Knot Series

'Gleeson leaves us with a memorable and poignant love story and a vision of a wonderful culture, unique in my experience of literature.'

Karen Charlton, author of The Heiress of Linn Hagh and Catching the Eagle

'The underlying sexual tension is all the more powerful for the beautifully restrained writing, which makes the slightest touch electric; a medicinal massage becomes a moment of physical communion¦. This is what Kristin Gleeson does best; portraying different cultures and showing how humanity can cross them.'

Jean Gill, author of Song at Dawn and Bladesong

To escape recent betrayal and loss, Irish archaeology student, Brid Ni Laoghaire seizes the chance to be a last minute replacement on a dig in a remote Chinese desert and discovers a dangerous secret that links her to an ancient past.
An Alaskan Tlingit Indian, John Sheldon, leads the team, and their incredible discoveries arouse hostility in the Chinese officials sent to observe the dig. As more items are examined, Brid begins to have startling visions that link her to the past which complicate the growing attraction between her and the emotionally troubled John. How could she be connected to a people that lived 3500 years ago? Meanwhile the Chinese officials' hostility grows and unease among staff rises, all of which threaten to undermine the expedition and, eventually, John and Brid's lives.

Part of the Celtic Knot Series

London, 1440
While the storm clouds of the Wars of the Roses gather, Barnabas, a streetwise thirteen year-old orphan, dreams of sailing away to foreign countries. His mistress, Margery Jourdemayne, the Witch of Eye, and his guardian, Canon Thomas Southwell, plot to use his clairvoyant talents to further their ambitions. Vain and ambitious Eleanor, Duchess of Gloucester, turns to the Witch of Eye to conceive a child to secure her position as the wife of the heir to the throne, but her husband�s enemies are determined to use her actions to bring about his downfall.

Can this young imp, Barnabas, steer a safe path through the dangerous web of intrigue and suspicion that surrounds him? Will his �sight� save him from burning in the flames of a witch�s pyre? And will Eleanor conceive a child, or will her follies prove her undoing?

An historical novel full of plot twists and intrigue in the manner of Dorothy Dunnett.


�Fast-paced and moving, �The Imp of Eye� is the memorable story of real events told in the distinctive voice of a unique and loveable character.� � Karen Charlton, author of The Detective Lavender Mysteries

�A jewel of a story, set among the royal courts and the dark alleys of medieval London, where intrigue, betrayal and witchcraft are woven into a poisoned web to trap the innocent. The characters are so compelling that I was struggling to breathe as the net tightened around them. This is story-telling at its best.�- Karen Maitland, author of Company of Liars

Book One of the Renaissance Sojourner Series

Ireland 590 A.D.

A woman is found by a track, nearly dead from appalling wounds and remembers nothing. Her terror and her injuries are so great that she is given sanctuary in Mother Gobnait's unusual community of nuns, while all around her a war is being waged in which she is a pawn. The women name her Aine.

Disturbing fragments of �ine�s memory begin to surface, and in desperation she asks to remain in the safety of the community, but is it really safe for her anywhere?

It is only after events take another terrible turn that �ine is forced to discover who she really is and make life-changing choices � but will they prove to be her undoing?

A literary novel inspired by real women - complex female characters who strain against the cruel chains and crippling prejudices of a society where no woman has power. Except, perhaps, one�

Belfast and Alaska 1889.
A young woman haunted by her mother�s death embarks on an Alaskan adventure to escape an unwanted marriage.

Cunning and determination get her there in the guise of teaching at the Tlingit Indian mission. But Alaska proves more difficult than she imagined, and the hope that this new place will transform her seems out of reach with the impossible Mrs
Paxson and the mysterious, troubled Tlingit Indian, Natsilane.

��this is a beautifully calibrated and vivid and interesting historical novel about love and death in the North American wilderness,�the characters are fascinating,� the evocation of the natural world and the social customs and practices of Tlingit is assured and convincing, and� the story, albeit melancholy, is unfailingly engaging. I wish it well.� Carlo Gebler, The Siege of Derry

�A fable as gentle as Irish laughter and as lyrical as Irish song. A magical love story of a girl who must cross the world to find the one place where she can belong.' Karen Maitland, The Raven�s Head

England 1445
After four years, the threat of arrest for witchcraft still hangs over Barnabas and he dare not return to England for his childhood sweetheart, Alys, as promised. Still under the tutelage of Mustapha al Qali and posing as Giacomo, he is taken across Christendom in search of a mysterious manuscript. Barnabas grows more resentful of al Qali's tight control and secretly tries to create his own enterprise that will eventually free him. But al Qali has other plans that take them both into danger.

Alys, attendant to the disgraced and exiled Duchess of Gloucester, finds herself dismissed with nowhere to go. Her only hope is to find Barnabas, but her journey leads her into perils that change her circumstances irrevocably in ways she could never have imagined. If she finds Barnabas will he recognise who she has become, and will he still want her?

Kristin Gleeson authentic historical fiction is filled with adventure, vibrant and colourful characters and intense storylines.