Böcker av Desirée M. Niccoli

A woman foretells the death of the man she's destined to love and must defy fate to save him.For centuries, Éireann has traveled alone across Ireland with nothing but visions from Death and a compulsion to warn people of their impending doom. That is, until Death sends her to the English countryside, where she meets Elin, a fellow countryman returning home after fighting in the Napoleonic wars.Both Elin and Éireann are weary of traveling the long road alone and need only reach out to find comfort in each other's company. But when Éireann receives a startling vision of them kissing beneath a yew tree, followed by a dark omen foretelling Elin's demise, a heartbreaking truth is unveiled: he might not live long enough to make the journey home. Or for them to fall in love.Death is playing cruel games with their lives and hearts. But there's a silver lining to seeing his death before it unfolds. If Éireann can stop it before it happens, Elin just might have a chance at love and a life that finally belongs to him. And nothing will stop Éireann from securing their future. Not even Death itself.Follow Me to the Yew Tree is an adult historical romance novella with supernatural and folkloric elements and chronic illness representation that the author shares.

Her song is a lure he cannot resist.Even after brokering a deal with the vicious merfolk who stalk his offshore fishing lanes, Captain Killian Quinn has had one too many onboard his boat for comfort. His livelihood, and life, as well as that of his crew's, depends on his ability to maintain peace. One wrong move and the Dawn Chaser could become a floating charcuterie board, and he'd never see again the one mermaid he wouldn't mind take a little nibble out of him.A sinister craving for human flesh leaves Lorelei Roth with no other choice. She must aid the study of one of her own to find a more permanent solution to protect the ones she loves. As enthralled by all her sharp edges and seductive siren song as her fiancé may be, the threat of becoming the wrong kind of snack is never far enough away.While they're close to a breakthrough treatment, doubt gnaws at Lorelei as she watches a fellow mermaid languish in a tank, enduring endless rounds of tests and denied the healing touch of the sea. Is one mermaid's declining health and happiness too steep a price for freedom? And if so, what sacrifices is Lorelei willing to make to set it right?

First comes desire. Then hunger.¿¿When Killian Quinn, captain of offshore fishing boat, receives a distress call from a sailing ship caught in a terrible storm, he and his crew rush to provide aid. But when they arrive, all that's left of the ship and its crew is splintered wood and a borderline hypothermic woman who can't remember how she survived. His attraction to her is instantaneous, and maintaining a professional distance proves to be a struggle, especially when she needs a place to stay that's far from the press and curious townsfolk, and his idyllic cottage by the sea is the perfect sanctuary.What was supposed to be a thrilling once-in-a lifetime opportunity for Lorelei Roth, turns into a seafaring tragedy. As Lorelei struggles to accept that she's The Osprey's only survivor, she's plagued by strange dreams and sleepwalking episodes that draw her into the ocean. And if the grieving process wasn't hard enough, Lorelei also grapples with guilt from developing feelings for the captain who rescued her. But worst of all, is a new, unsettling hunger for raw flesh that's eating her from the inside out. The handsome captain begins to look like a tasty snack in more ways than one.Discovering she's descended from the people-eating mermaids who devoured her crew, Lorelei struggles to accept her identity knowing her entire existence relies upon its secrecy and devouring human flesh. What happens if Killian finds out? The world at large? What if Lorelei answers the ocean's call to the deep?