Book Title: RAVEN
Character Name: Raven Sorrel Byrne
How would you describe your family or your childhood?
Cherished. My parents cherished me and my two sisters. We were expected to chase our dreams, to laugh and love our family fiercely, and especially to embrace our Irish and Native American heritage. I grew up in Oklahoma and spent most summers in Ireland with Nan, my grandma.
What was your greatest talent?
Growing up, I lived for arts and crafts projects. By the time I was a young teen, I’d taught myself how to knit and crochet, and my favorite, hand embroidery. By high school, I knew Interior Design was my passion. My sisters and I opened Triskelion Territory Designs right out of college. I love taking a client’s vision and making it better.
Significant other?
Bran Knightley O’Faolain is the son of a Tulsa, Oklahoma, oil magnate and the man I don’t want to live without.
Biggest challenge in relationships?
Trust.
Where do you live?
Oklahoma until a family crisis had my sisters and me packing up and moving to Dublin, Ireland.
Do you have any enemies?
The Byrnes and the O’Faolains share a mysterious enemy who is always watching us, striking our families in unexpected and devastating ways.
How do you feel about the place where you are now? Is there something you are particularly attached to, or particularly repelled by, in this place?
Closing our design business in Oklahoma was a blow because my sisters and I were starting to make a name for ourselves. Starting over and creating a new Triskelion Territory Designs in Dublin was challenging. Getting new clients and contacts was overwhelming, but I finally feel we might pull it off. Ireland is no longer a place to visit my grandma but a forever home. Still, I miss Oklahoma– my heart still lives there, after all.
Do you have children, pets, both, or neither?
No pets or children. Someday, I want children. I never want to deal with pet hair.
What are some of your favorite things?
River and Rowan (my sisters). The color green (all shades). Bushmills Blackbush Irish whiskey (neat). Peanut butter (Skippy Double Chunk). Bran O’Faolain.
Greatest disappointment?
I wish I could have hugged my parents one more time before they were taken from me in a car accident. I never let myself forget them, but I worry that eventually, I might not remember exactly how it felt for them to hold me close.
Greatest source of joy?
Besides my family, knowing that Mom and Dad are together forever.
What do you do to entertain yourself or have fun?
Read anything and everything. Romance is my favorite, but I mix in a few history books to honor my parents, who were college history professors.
What is your greatest personal failing, in your view?
Hmm, my greatest personal failing. Once, I believed that a person had the power to destroy me. I finally learned that they might devastate me– but no one can destroy me unless I allow them to.
What keeps you awake at night?
Clients, vendors, and finding the perfect artisans for a job. Finances. Finances. Finances. Love.
What is the most pressing problem you have at the moment?
Moving out of the single room flat above our shop (which we only did to save money until our new Dublin office takes off). Three twenty-plus-year-old women with waist-length black hair sharing a porta potty-sized bathroom… beyond pressing.
Is there something that you need or want that you don’t have? For yourself or for someone important to you?
I have everything I need. I want to forgive Bran O’Faolain.
Why don’t you have it? What is in the way?
Mistrust, unforeseen circumstances, no longer living on the same continent, and a stalker who is doing his level best to destroy my happiness.
RAVEN by Anne Gregor
The Irish Wolves #1
Raven is the first book in The Irish Wolves Trilogy, an Adult Contemporary Romance. Situations include burnt cookies, panty wedgies, pond parties, Oklahoma oil, good craic in Dublin, castle ruin exhibitionism… and a deranged dark web stalker lurking in the shadows waiting to smother – Every. Happy. Moment.
Raven Byrne is half Irish, half Native American, and wholly devoted to her two sisters. Together, they started an interior design firm in Oklahoma, Triskelion Territory Designs. Getting hired to decorate Wolves Irish Pub & Eatery by Tulsa oil billionaire legends was just the opportunity the new business needed to boost its reputation. The three O’Faolain men were gorgeous and powerful… Norse Vikings in the 21st Century… Wolves. And one of them couldn’t take his amber eyes off Raven.
Bran is the oldest son of Hugh, the O’Faolain patriarch. He hired the Byrne sisters to oversee the Irish pub venture, a special project to commemorate Hugh’s late father’s life and legacy. What should have been a strictly professional relationship veered off course from the first disastrous meeting. Raven was the woman he had to have, not for one night or year, but forever.
It was all romantic getaways, passion, and commitment for Raven and Bran – until it wasn’t.
Driven by vengeance for crimes laid upon his father, Samuel Delton was a darkly disturbed man whose sole goal was to ruin all chances of happiness for the men he hated most – starting with their women.
Romance | Women’s Fiction Contemporary [Oliver-Heber Books, On Sale: February 20, 2024, e-Book, / ]
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About Anne Gregor
Anne Gregor is a Contemporary Romance writer and the author of Raven, the first book in The Irish Wolves trilogy. Anne loves using her master’s degree in history to sprinkle a little of the past into a modern package. When she is not writing, reading, or book reviewing, she is obsessed with true crime documentaries and cooking challenge shows – a combination like fish and cheese – sometimes it works. An empty nester after her three children started adulting, she still loves getting together for family game nights. Quiet evenings are reserved for reading and peanut butter.
She lives in northeast Oklahoma on the Grand Lake O’ the Cherokees and is passionate about all things Okie.
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