He'd been dead for fifteen hundred years. Only he wasn't.
Start the series readers call "impossible to put down."
When Caitlin O'Connell discovers a perfectly preserved Celtic priest in an Irish hillside, she's convinced it's the archaeological find of the century. She has no idea that find is about to wake up.
Ciarán is a 5th-century pagan priest, buried alive for betraying his goddess at the dawn of Christianity in Ireland. But somehow, he survives the ordeal and awakes in a world of stone walkways and blaring horns, a city far-removed from his own world. Taking refuge in a local rectory, he pretends to be a handyman to hide the secret that could see him returned to the strange glass case he so recently woke in. Yet, he can't fight the growing attraction he has for Caitlin O'Connell, the woman determined to unravel the mystery of her missing Celt.
A tale of ancient secrets, modern danger, and a love story fifteen centuries in the making.
The Cross of Ciarán is Book 1 in the series?six books published, with Book 7 arriving summer 2026. If you love binge-worthy historical romances with real stakes and unforgettable characters?this is your next obsession.
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Inez M. Foster writes under two pen names. The first, Andrea Matthews, is for her historical and paranormal romances, and the second, I. M. Foster, is for her historical mysteries. Inez is a historian and retired librarian who loves to read, and write, and search around for her roots, genealogically speaking. She has a BA in History and an MLS in Library Science, and enjoys the research almost as much as she does writing the story. In fact, many of her ideas come to her while doing casual research or digging into her family history. After working as a substitute teacher while raising her children, she retired from that career to pursue a second career as a librarian, where she chaired the Long Island History Committee of the Suffolk County Librarian Association. Now that she has retired, she has embarked on her third career as a full-time author.
Her historical romance series, Thunder on the Moor, is a story of time-travel and forbidden love, set on the 16th-century Anglo-Scottish Border. The paranormal romance series, The Cross of Ciaran, follows the life of a fifteen-hundred-year-old Celt, who finds himself in the twentieth century, falling in love with the archaeologist who discovered him.
Inez also writes historical mysteries under the pen name I. M. Foster. Her South Shore Mystery series is set in the early 1900s in a small Long Island village, not far from where she now lives, and involves an assistant coroner and doctor, whose love interest, a local librarian, insists on becoming embroiled in his cases.
As a member of the Long Island Romance Writers, she organizes their monthly newsletter and takes part in their monthly meetings as well as those of the Long Island Writers Group, another local organization. She is also a member of the Historical Novel Society and the Crime Writers Association, as well as the Authors Guild and the Alliance of Independent Authors.