
Eoin Dempsey was born in Dublin, Ireland in 1977. He grew up in the beautiful Dublin suburb of Dalkey, where he and his friends would jump into the icy waters of the Irish Sea (during summertime) to prove their manliness. Eoin had a fantastic time attending Blackrock College, where he played rugby (poorly) and did his best to coast his way through. Eoin’s first ambition was to play rugby for Ireland. Due to a lack of talent, he soon abandoned that goal for the more reasoned path of the rock star. He played in bands through his teens and well into his twenties before harsh reality came calling, and his dreams of being the next Keith Moon faded. Eoin made the ill-reasoned decision to study business in university and was accepted into University College Dublin to study Commerce in 1995. While Eoin did attend college, studying wasn’t his priority there. He met his beautiful wife, Jill, while traveling to the USA in 1997, though it would be several years before he managed to break her down and they got together as a couple. It was during Eoin’s second stint in the USA, which he spent with his brother in New York City, that he decided to start writing a novel, for the express purpose of impressing women. This effort was met with mixed success. Eoin finished his first novel a year later. The over hundred and fifty rejections he received from publishers didn’t discourage him. He pinned them to his wall. After spending a year in Australia, where he was fired from many jobs, including picking red and green peppers and toiling for scallops miles out to sea on a fishing trawler, he returned home and decided to write again. Another novel followed while he phoned it in at a number of jobs in financial services in Dublin. By this time Eoin had managed to convince Jill, the girl he’d met in the USA years before to move over to Dublin. She did so in 2004. It was the best negotiation he ever undertook. They were married in 2007. Jill’s more brilliant negotiating skills led Eoin to move to her hometown of Philadelphia in 2008, just in time for the economy to collapse. The plan to live with her parents for a few weeks turned into eighteen months, as Eoin struggled to retain employment in a fractured economy. It was during this time that he wrote FINDING REBECCA, which would go on to be his first published novel and be translated into fourteen different languages. Eoin and Jill have three beautiful sons, Robbie, who was born in 2015, Sam, born in 2017, and Jack who came in 2019. Eoin enjoys playing with them and marveling at how much more talented they are at the sports that he loves, particularly golf.
In the shadows of World War II, trust becomes the greatest risk of all for two strangers.December 1943. In the years before the rise of Hitler, the Gerber family’s summer cottage was filled with laughter. Now, as deep drifts of snow blanket the Black Forest, German dissenter Franka Gerber is alone and hopeless. Fervor and brutality have swept through her homeland, taking away both her father and her brother and leaving her with no reason to live.That is, until she discovers an unconscious airman lying in the snow wearing a Luftwaffe uniform, his parachute flapping in the wind. Unwilling to let him die, Franka takes him to her family’s isolated cabin despite her hatred for the regime he represents. But when it turns out that he is not who he seems, Franka begins a race against time to unravel the mystery of the airman’s true identity. Their tenuous bond becomes as inseparable as it is dangerous. Hunted by the Gestapo, can they trust each other enough to join forces on a mission that could change the face of the war and their own lives forever?
Nothing could keep Christopher and Rebecca apart: not her abusive parents, or even the fiancé she brought home after running away to England. But when World War II finally strikes the island of Jersey, the Nazi invaders ship Rebecca to Europe as part of Hitler’s Final Solution against the Jewish population.After Christopher and his family are deported back to their native Germany, he volunteers for the Nazi SS, desperate to save the woman he loves. He is posted to Auschwitz and finds himself put in control of the money stolen from the victims of the gas chambers. As Christopher searches for Rebecca, he struggles to not only maintain his cover, but also the grip on his soul. Managing the river of tainted money flowing through the horrific world of Auschwitz may give him unexpected opportunities. But will it give him the strength to accept a brave new fate that could change his life—and others’ lives—forever?
Against the backdrop of WWII-ravaged Italy comes a powerful and emotional novel of love, survival, justice, and second chances by the bestselling author of White Rose, Black Forest.Occupied Italy, 1944. In the mountain regions south of Bologna, Liliana Nicoletti’s family finds escaped POW James Foley behind German lines. Committed to the anti-Fascist cause, they deliver him to a powerful band of local partisans. But when the SS launches a brutal attack against the Resistance, Liliana’s peaceful community is destroyed. Alone and thrown together by tragedy, James and Liliana fight together as Monte Sole burns. Forging an unbreakable bond, their only hope of survival is to make it to the Allied lines.Twelve years later, fate reunites Liliana, newly widowed, and James, now a journalist for a New York magazine. Liliana reveals to him the obsession that has haunted her since the massacre at Monte Sole: finding and bringing to justice the SS officer who ordered her family killed. James has a revelation too. He might know how to hunt the man down. Joining forces once more, and increasingly drawn to each other, Liliana and James discover new levels of conspiracy on a journey that leads them to Argentina—and to a choice that will change their lives forever.
From the bestselling author of White Rose, Black Forest comes a page-turning epic of adventure, suspense, and romance set against the rich and ruthless backdrop of the Klondike gold rush. Seattle, 1897. Anna Denton is not like the other prospectors traveling to the Yukon on the promise of riches. It’s duty—not profit—that calls her into the wild unknown. With her family nearing financial ruin, Anna has agreed to marry Henry Bradwell, the wealthy King of the Klondike.She meets Will and Silas, childhood friends, on the steamer north. After the ship docks in a lawless Alaska town, Anna’s chaperones run afoul of local criminals, leaving her stranded. Will and Silas agree to escort her the hundreds of treacherous miles to Dawson City—the gateway to the goldfields—and her betrothed, a man she doesn’t know.Upon their arrival, Bradwell warmly welcomes them all. But as a brutal winter sets in, relations sour, and Anna is caught between the promise her family made to the power-hungry Bradwell and her feelings for Will. Anna and her companions soon find themselves in a deadly game where few can be trusted and where the greatest danger in the frozen wilderness of the Klondike is man himself.
Maureen Ritter’s story draws to a stunning conclusion. France, 1943Having left Christophe, her lover and fellow freedom fighter, behind in Marseilles, Maureen travels to England to undergo a grueling training course to join the Special Operations Executive and become a secret soldier to counter the Nazis in her beloved France. Her first mission is to take control of a ragtag band of outlaws in the forest and mold them into a fighting force worthy of taking on the German invaders. She leads a crack group on a dangerous mission to provoke the Wehrmacht into a conflict they’re not prepared for. But Christophe’s role as a master forger interrupts her plans, and soon they will both begin a daring race against time to save some of the innocents victimized by the cruel new head of the Gestapo in Lyon, Klaus Barbie. France, 2006Amy finds herself trapped in France when after traveling to document the concluding chapters of her grandmother’s story, she discovers a medical condition that could threaten her future. Will the choices she makes during the most important time in her life lead her to a sparkling future or suck her into the mire of the past?
Can one woman’s inspirational story inspire hope in her granddaughter’s lost soul?New York, 2006.Amy Sullivan’s life is a mess. Fired from her dream job at a prestigious newspaper, she gets a call from her 90-year-old grandmother in the South of France. Maureen Ritter flies to America, the land of her birth, ostensibly to visit her ailing sister, but soon she begins to share with Amy what she’s hidden for more than 60 years—the story of her war.France, 1940.The impending German invasion threatens the idyllic existence Maureen and the Jewish refugees living with her enjoy in the French countryside. On a trip to Paris to arrange visas for them to escape, Maureen meets Christophe, a handsome would-be suitor who seems to have something to hide. When he tells her of some Jewish children about to be caught in the eye of the Nazi Blitzkrieg in Belgium, they assemble a team to rescue them before they are swallowed up by the invading Wehrmacht.But when the Nazis occupy northern France, the need to evacuate the Jewish orphans in her personal care becomes apparent. With the help of the resistance and a new network designed to extricate Allied servicemen from France, she will begin a dangerous and arduous journey to save the lives of those she loves most, no matter what the cost to herself might be.
A broken family. A new opportunity in a country on the precipice of unspeakable evil.November 1932. Seamus Ritter, a widower with four children, returns from riding the rails in an America crippled by the great depression. Realizing that his homecoming will not be how he envisioned it, and in a desperate attempt to make amends with his 16-year-old daughter, Maureen, Seamus accepts an invitation to come and work for his long-lost uncle in Berlin. With little other choice, Seamus takes the ship to Germany with his family. Maureen leaves everything to go with her father she no longer trusts, dedicated to taking care of her younger siblings.The Germany the Ritter family encounters is vastly different than the one Seamus spent time living in as a child. An upstart politician called Adolf Hitler has come to the fore, but surely it’s only a matter of time before the right-thinking members of society banish him to the fringes of the political landscape he emerged from.As the Ritter family struggles to adjust to life in a country ravaged by unemployment and internal strife, Seamus meets Lisa, a beautiful and mysterious woman weighed down by the ghosts of her past life. When tragedy strikes, Lisa and Seamus will be forced to act together to save their lives and build a future together in a nation that, unbeknownst to the citizens there, is about to descend into the greatest evil the world has ever known.
New York, 2006Amy is writing her grandmother’s biography when she receives news that upends her entire existence. Still in shock, she flies to the south of France to hear the next part of her grandmother’s wartime story. Faced with choices that will alter the path of her life, Amy finds that she needs her grandmother’s advice more than ever, and that the older woman is determined that her granddaughter not repeat the mistakes she made in the past.France, 1942France is reeling in the wake of the Nazi invasion. When a British spy arrives to organize the fledgling resistance in the south, Maureen and Christophe find their lives thrown into turmoil. When the spy offers Maureen access to the finest forger in France, whose skills could guarantee the safety of the Jewish children under her care, she and Christophe will undertake a dangerous mission, the result of which will change their lives and those of the refugees forever.THE FORGER is the second novel in a new series by the #1 Amazon bestselling author of WHITE ROSE, BLACK FOREST, and THE LION’S DEN SERIES. Download it and discover Eoin Dempsey’s books today.
From the Amazon charts bestselling author of White Rose Black Forest and the Longest Echo. The war will force him to choose between his community, his family, or the woman he loves. The Bogside is an area in open revolt, cordoned off from the rest of the city of Derry, patrolled by masked IRA men atop burnt-out barricades. Subjugated by the Protestant ruling classes and denied their right to vote, life for the Catholic people in Bogside is hard. But a civil rights movement has begun. The march through the Bogside that day was meant to be like any other. That march would change the course of history for the people of Northern Ireland and become known as Bloody Sunday. Mick Doherty has a secret, and it’s time to introduce her to his family. It’s not easy being with a girl from the other side of the divide. He knows that being with Melissa could prove impossible. Protestants and Catholics don’t mix. The march through Bogside will be the perfect time to introduce her to his twin brother Pat at least. Melissa Rice, daughter of a unionist politician and from the Protestant, middle-class side of the city, had never even been to the area of Derry known as the Bogside before she met Mick. But now, inspired by the words of Martin Luther King, she is ready to march not only for the civil rights of all the people of Northern Ireland but for her chance to be with the man she loves. Pat Doherty was never one to get involved in the daily riots in Bogside but is ready to rally against injustice. He knows that now is the time to stand up for the Catholic people of Derry against the Protestant hierarchy and the British occupying forces they support. After witnessing British Army paratroopers shoot 13 people dead on Bloody Sunday, Mick, Pat and Melissa find themselves dragged into a war they never wanted any part of. The Doherty brothers join the IRA, whose ranks are swelling with disaffected young men and women spurred on by the carnage on the streets. But after another horrific act of violence, Mick begins to rethink the allegiances he has made. He realizes will have to choose between a promise to his twin brother, his duty to the community he has sworn to protect, and the woman he loves. The Bogside Boys is a meticulously researched, nuanced family saga, set over twenty-five years of the conflict in Northern Ireland.
Sometimes, the deadliest enemy lies within. It is 1942, and war is raging in Europe. Monika Ritter is in New York with her husband, Michael. Haunted by memories of her childhood in Germany and her father’s death at the hands of the Nazis, she longs to do her bit against Hitler’s rampaging armies. When Michael joins the new Army Air Force as a bomber pilot, Monika takes advantage of an invitation she receives to join the OSS, a fledgling group of spies with the mission to turn the war by gathering the most vital asset of all—information. As Michael begins to fly missions in B-24 bombers over Europe, Monika attends a top-secret training camp in the Maryland forest. After graduating, she is sent on a mission to infiltrate a clandestine ring of Nazi saboteurs dispatched from Germany to attack the American war machine on home soil. Soon, she will uncover a plot that could shift the entire momentum of the war in the Nazis’ favor. Racing against time and a dangerous adversary, Monika will have to foil a deadly plan that could change the face of the war forever. THE GERMAN GIRL is the first novel in a new series by the #1 Amazon bestselling author of WHITE ROSE, BLACK FOREST, and THE MAUREEN RITTER SERIES. Download it and discover Eoin Dempsey’s books today.
From the Amazon charts bestselling author of White Rose Black Forest and The Longest Echo.Peter and his two-year-old daughter, Sara, escape war-torn Poland after WW2 and settle in Pennsylvania, but when tragedy strikes twenty-one years later, the dark secrets of the past will be revealed.Eastern Poland, 1942 On the run from the Nazis in occupied Poland with his daughter, Peter Kovalenko goes on a deadly mission to prove himself to the Polish resistance. He meets Natalia, a beautiful underground fighter with little left to live for. Desperate to hide Sara from the horrors of the fighting, the trio hide out together, waiting for the war to end. But when the Soviet forces return, fate will intervene once more, leaving Peter and Sara alone and facing a deadly chase to survive that will lead them all the way to America. Philadelphia, 1966After one of his friends from the war is killed in a hit and run, a bomb rips through the social club where Peter, his brother, and the rest of their friends meet after the funeral. One of the men is killed and Peter is left in a coma. Realizing her family is being targeted, and without her father to turn to, Sara teams up with Tom Kirby, an FBI agent who’s meeting a wall of silence at every turn. Working with, and getting ever closer to Tom, Sara will reveal secrets and conspiracies that stretch from the Philadelphia underworld all the way back to the darkest days of the holocaust in Poland. She will be forced to confront demons of the past she never knew existed and face truths that will change her life forever. The Hidden Soldier is the new page-turner by Eoin Dempsey, the author of the #1 Amazon bestseller, White Rose, Black Forest. Download The Hidden Soldier and discover Eoin Dempsey’s books today.
The Past Never Stays Past.Berlin 1933. The new dawn that Hitler promised has taken place. Propped up by business interests and a fragile political coalition, the Nazis and their stormtroopers start to run riot throughout the city. The ghosts of Lisa and Seamus’s recent past come back to haunt them when a figure emerges from the shadows of their lives to threaten their future. Seamus will have to protect his family, his workers and his own life from the threats against them, no matter what it takes.Meanwhile, as the Reichstag burns and the Nazis begin to solidify their grip on power in Germany, Lisa’s mother, Ingrid, falls ill. In a state of delirium, Ingrid reveals a puzzle from Lisa’s past to Maureen. It will be up to Lisa and her new stepdaughter to uncover a secret that will change all of their lives life forever.A NEW DAWN is the sequel to THE LION’S DEN, and the second book in The Lion’s Den Series by the #1 Amazon bestselling author or WHITE ROSE, BLACK FOREST, and THE LONGEST ECHO set in Hitler’s Germany in the 1930s. Download it and discover Eoin Dempsey’s books today.
Berlin 1936—the grand illusion has begun.The Nazi authorities have changed with the coming of the Olympic Games to Berlin. A false air of civility has taken over as the government extends a welcome to the world. But below the surface, the police state remains, and hundreds of so-called “undesirables” are rounded up and held in a newly constructed concentration camp in the city. When someone from Seamus Ritter’s past appears, he will be left with no choice but to help him and begin a mission of mercy that could destroy his own family.Michael Ritter’s dream has become a reality as he competes in the 100 meters against the seemingly unbeatable American, Jesse Owens. But at a lavish party on the eve of the games, he meets a beautiful stranger who will upend his life and change his fate.
Berlin/Paris, 1938/1939—The Day of Reckoning has arrived for the Ritter Family.With the horrors of the Nazi regime becoming more apparent by the day, Maureen Ritter decides to remain in Paris. There, she meets a disturbed young man who will change the course of history and set the match to a firestorm that will engulf the innocent Jews still in Germany.Fiona Ritter’s devotion to the Führer will be tested when the nightmare of Kristallnacht consumes Berlin. The foundations she built her life upon these last six years will be shaken as she witnesses the horrific violence and destruction wrought that fateful night.With the situation in Germany coming to a head, Seamus will be forced to reevaluate the life he’s created for himself and his children in Hitler’s Reich. With time running out to get his Jewish workers to safety, he will be faced with impossible choices. And as the pressures grow, he will be forced to run not just for his own life, but for the lives of everyone he holds most dear.THE RECKONING is the sixth and final novel in a new series by the #1 Amazon bestselling author of WHITE ROSE, BLACK FOREST, and THE LONGEST ECHO, set in Hitler’s Germany in the 1930s. Download it and discover Eoin Dempsey’s books today.
Berlin, 1935.Two years have passed since Hitler swept to power and the Golden Age the Nazis promised has come to pass—for some.When a mysterious fire burns down the factory, the police dismiss it. Seamus will start down a path to finding the truth, and discovering who has a grudge against them strong enough to risk everything. Faced with financial ruin, Seamus will have to decide to accept an offer of sale and break up his family, or submit to the needs of rearming the Wehrmacht.After a decade of trying, Lisa finally lands a leading role in a movie, but just as her career seems about to take off the film draws interest from Josef Goebbels, head of the Nazi Propaganda ministry. Soon, Lisa will be forced to make choices that could propel her to stardom but scar her soul forever.Maureen, now in college, is introduced to a group of people scarred by Nazi injustice. Encouraged by her new friends to spy on Lisa’s father, a high-ranking doctor for the government, she discovers a deadly secret that could expose the Nazis internationally and change the course of Hitler’s rule in Germany.THE GOLDEN AGE is the third book in The Lion’s Den Series by the #1 Amazon bestselling author or WHITE ROSE, BLACK FOREST, and THE LONGEST ECHO set in Hitler’s Germany in the 1930s. Download it and discover Eoin Dempsey’s books today.
It is 1943, and WW2 is raging. After parting with her husband, Michael, in London, Monika Ritter is sent to the Swiss city of Bern to begin her career with the OSS. Bern is an international hub for the secret war being fought between the spies of America, Britain, and their counterparts in the German secret service. There, her new boss, the spymaster Allen Dulles, introduces her to a mysterious German double agent who might prove to be an invaluable asset. The German spy soon invites Monika back across the border to Germany to meet a contact who could change the face of the intelligence war, but when disaster strikes, Monika finds herself in a race against time to find an old ally in a country where enemies lurk around every corner. Meanwhile, Michael Ritter, a pilot in the US Army Air Force, is sent on a mission to bomb a target in Norway. After his B-24 bomber is shot down over the German-occupied country, he and his wounded co-pilot find themselves lost in a barren landscape, hunted by a Gestapo officer obsessed with their capture. In staying one step ahead of their relentless pursuers, they will find themselves reliant on the help of the Norwegian resistance, who will come up with a daring plan to help them escape to freedom across the border into neutral Sweden.
Berlin/Paris 1937—The Ritter family prepares for the Coming StormThe Ritter family is fractured. Maureen, Michael, and his new wife, Monika, are in exile in the city of Paris. Seamus, Lisa, and the other children remain in Berlin, where fifteen-year-old Fiona is falling further under the spell of Nazi propaganda. Under constant pressure to inform on her parents and impress her peers, she will soon be faced with a stark choice on which direction her life is going to take.Business is booming in the factory. The Nazi regime’s insatiable appetite for armaments has created a new gold rush in Germany, and Seamus has become a member of Germany’s new elite class of munitions kings. But unlike the other fat cats he fraternizes with, Seamus has a dual mission—to report back to his contact in the US embassy on the Nazi weapons build-up and to find a way to extricate his Jewish workers from a country growing more perilous for them by the day.Maureen’s work against the Nazis continues in Paris. And together with another resistance fighter, she hatches a scheme that could topple Hitler and his Nazi government forever. When Lisa recruits a face from her past to aid their plan, suddenly, it appears they might succeed. But Paris isn’t as safe as it seems, and when the Gestapo strike, Seamus, Michael, and Monika will have to join forces in a race against time to save not only Maureen’s life but the very future of Germany.
Germany, 1943Trapped inside southern Germany, Monika Ritter goes to the one person she can trust—her cousin, Sarah Graf, a woman scarred by her opposition to the Nazis. Despite taking refuge in Sarah’s house, Monika is determined to fulfill her mission and meet a potentially invaluable asset in the intelligence war against the Nazis, a man who could change the face of the entire war. After a daring mission to meet the new contact, Monika must escape Hitler’s Reich in the only way she can, over the alpine mountain ranges that separate Germany from Austria and Switzerland. But even if she makes it all the way back to her new home in Bern, her mission is far from over….Michael Ritter returns to combat with his bomber squadron but is soon offered a new opportunity to fly secret missions with a fledgling group in neutral Switzerland. After he and his new group are called in to take on a rescue mission no one has ever attempted before, Michael will get the reunion with his wife that he has been dreaming about, but in a way he never could have imagined. THE COURIER is the third novel in a new series by the #1 Amazon bestselling author of WHITE ROSE, BLACK FOREST, and THE MAUREEN RITTER SERIES. Download it and discover Eoin Dempsey’s books today.
Hiding out in a cave in the Austrian Alps with three others, Monika runs into trouble. Pursued by vengeful forces of the Wehrmacht and the Gestapo, she and her three companions undergo an arduous journey over the mountains to safety in a Catholic monastery outside the town of Hallein, near the German border.Meanwhile, Sarah is in Berlin, arranging with some of the highest-ranking German generals to assassinate Hitler and end the war. After being denounced by the local block warden, she is pursued through the streets and over the rooftops of Berlin. She will have to use all her skills to escape with her life.In France, Oliver is again pressed into service by an increasingly desperate German Army, as they try to stem the tide of the invading Allied forces after D-Day. Unaware that he is working for the Americans, Oliver’s new comrades engage the invaders in Caen, the key to winning the battle of Normandy. Oliver will find himself faced with an impossible to save the men around him or to fight for what he sees as the greater good, and help the Allies win.After being sent to Austria, Sarah will reunite with her beloved cousin Monika on a mysterious new mission. The two women must piece together a deadly puzzle and uncover a startling new weapon that could alter not only the war but also the future of humanity itself.THE RETREAT is the seventh novel in a new series by the #1 Amazon bestselling author of WHITE ROSE, BLACK FOREST, and THE MAUREEN RITTER SERIES. Download it and discover Eoin Dempsey’s books today.
War often blurs the line between right and wrong.After spending a blissful few weeks with her husband, Michael, in Bern, Switzerland, Monika is assigned to return to Berlin, the most dangerous city in the world. Her mission for the OSS is to meet and collect information from the asset she cultivated, a man with access to a treasure trove of confidential Nazi documents. Sarah volunteers to go with her, and despite Monika’s protests, the two cousins travel to the heart of the Reich together.After a journey filled with unexpected peril, they arrive in Hitler’s capital city. Soon, the asset provides information about a fledgling project to develop nuclear weapons. After a support mission helmed by Michael and Sarah’s new fiancé, Oliver fails, Sarah and Monika spring into action. With the help of an underground group, they embark on a quest that could change not only the course of the war but also the moral compass both of them have lived by their whole lives.THE BERLIN GIRLS is the fourth novel in a new series by the #1 Amazon bestselling author of WHITE ROSE, BLACK FOREST, and THE MAUREEN RITTER SERIES. Download it and discover Eoin Dempsey’s books today.
Imprisoned in a prisoner-of-war camp in southwest Germany, Michael Ritter attempts a daring escape with two other downed American pilots. After being recaptured, Michael is transferred to Colditz, a medieval castle repurposed as a high-security prison camp for incorrigible Allied escapees. But when the Nazi commandant tries to paint him as an informant, Michael will find it’s not just the German guards he needs to be wary of. Meanwhile, Oliver Strauss is holed up in a small German village after parachuting from the same plane Michael crashed in. When his host, a physically and psychologically damaged comrade from his time as a Wehrmacht soldier on the Eastern Front, begins to display signs of madness, Oliver realizes that his time in hiding may be coming to an abrupt end. After setting up an escape route out of Germany through Berlin, Monika and Sarah find out Michael and Oliver's whereabouts. The women will part ways to take on separate daring missions to defy both the Gestapo and the prison camp the Nazis call inescapable.
It is May 1944. Something huge is coming. After a well-earned rest following their collective escape from the Reich, Monika Ritter, her husband, Michael, her cousin, Sarah, and her fiancé, Oliver, resume their respective duties. Michael returns to Switzerland to fly for the OSS once more.Sarah goes to Berlin alone to continue the flow of information from the most critical OSS asset in Nazi Germany. Oliver, a former Wehrmacht soldier, is sent undercover into a British POW camp in Wales with a mission to integrate himself into a group of potential escapees before embarking on a secret mission at the heart of the D-Day landings.Monika is dispatched to Austria. Her task there will be to oversee a group of native infiltrators sent back to eliminate a brilliant German general in his summer home. But when the mission goes wrong, Monika will once more have to take the lead and, through cunning and ingenuity, see out an assignment that could change the face of the war.
Ireland/England 1880On the run from the authorities after escaping from jail in Ireland, Joseph meets a stranger on the boat to England. With little money to his name and in need of help, Joseph follows his new friend to Manchester, where he falls in with a crowd of Irish nationalists, eager to make a stir. Soon, he will find his life spiraling out of control, and Joseph will have to decide which is more his loyalty to the cause or his own moral code. After being evicted from their home, Maura and the remainder of her family travel to the Powerscourt Estate in County Wicklow to begin a new life working there. But Maura isn’t given a job as a maid as before. She is put in charge of the lord’s only son, a sickly six-year-old confined to his room and too afraid to emerge from beneath his covers. As the young boy begins to recover mentally, Maura begins to investigate his illness. With the help of an insider, she uncovers an insidious plot to steal the boy’s inheritance—an almost unimaginable fortune. But as Maura digs deeper, she finds herself not just fighting for her family’s future, but for her own life.THE GARDEN OF IRELAND is the second novel in a new series by the #1 Amazon bestselling author of WHITE ROSE, BLACK FOREST, and THE MAUREEN RITTER series, set in Ireland in the 19th century. Download it and discover Eoin Dempsey’s books today.
Ireland, 1879. Maura Doyle has always felt she was meant for more than her life as a poverty-stricken farmer’s daughter in County Laois could provide. Her father has arranged for her to marry into a wealthier local family, but she has more interest in her neighbor, Joseph O’Malley. Forced to leave school at age 16, she takes a full-time job as a maid in the local landlord’s mansion after a family tragedy. But the arrival of the lord’s son upends her role in the house and the equilibrium of the entire community. Joseph and some of his friends, under the influence of an old rebel in the area, hatch a plan to strike back at the landlords and fire the first shot in the upcoming land war that will soon consume Ireland. But when their scheme fails, the new lord will exact revenge on the community and order a round of evictions that will devastate the local population. Joseph, Maura, and their friends will take a stand against the forces of the English Crown but will pay a devastating price. It will be up to Maura, with the help of the new rising star of the Irish political scene, Charles Stewart Parnell, to save her neighbors from the hangman’s noose and take actions that will change not only her life but those of her family and community forever.
Twenty years ago she was taken. Now her daughter is next.Seventeen-year-old Ellie was last seen at a party with her boyfriend, star quarterback Josh, before she went missing…Twenty years later, Ellie has rebuilt her life. The man who ruined it is behind bars. He can't hurt her now. But as Ellie leaves her therapy group, a face she hasn't seen in decades appears before her. Josh, her high school boyfriend, is back in town.As they reconnect after years apart, trying to make sense of their shared trauma, a few streets away, Ellie's seventeen-year-old daughter Jess vanishes.Is history repeating itself? Ellie is about to discover the shocking truth about the night she was taken but can she unearth long-buried secrets to save her daughter?The Girl in the Basement is a heart-pounding psychological thriller that will keep you turning pages late into the night. Perfect for fans of The Housemaid, Gone Girl and Shari Lapena.
Hiding out at a monastery outside Hallein, Sarah and Monika wait for Viertel and two other agents to return to Austria to investigate the rumored redoubt in the Alps—a network of underground bunkers and factories where the Nazi hierarchy plans to retreat when the Allies invade Germany. After being denounced by an informant and surrounded in a mountain farmhouse, Viertel and his companions must decide whether to try to escape or die with the top-secret information they hold. Then Viertel will begin a desperate race against time to reach Monika and Sarah at the monastery to warn them that the Gestapo agents are coming. After Sarah and Kuen are sent to investigate what happened to Viertel and the other agents, a Gestapo chief sets a trap to corner them. Obsessed by Monika, or The Dark Angel, as she is known within the ranks of the Nazi secret police, the Gestapo officer will stop at nothing to find her. And when Monika realizes the world she and the others have constructed is about to collapse, they will be forced to take extreme action to preserve not just their own lives but those of every man, woman, and child hiding in the monastery.
by Eoin Dempsey
Rating: 4.8 ⭐
Can one woman’s inspirational story inspire hope in her granddaughter’s lost soul?New York, 2006.Amy Sullivan’s life is a mess. Fired from her dream job at a prestigious newspaper, she gets a call from her 90-year-old grandmother in the South of France. Maureen Ritter flies to America, the land of her birth, ostensibly to visit her ailing sister, but soon she begins to share with Amy what she’s hidden for more than 60 years—the story of her war.France, 1940.The impending German invasion threatens the idyllic existence Maureen and the Jewish refugees living with her enjoy in the French countryside. On a trip to Paris to arrange visas for them to escape, Maureen meets Christophe, a handsome would-be suitor who seems to have something to hide. When he tells her of some Jewish children about to be caught in the eye of the Nazi Blitzkrieg in Belgium, they assemble a team to rescue them before they are swallowed up by the invading Wehrmacht.But when the Nazis occupy northern France, the need to evacuate the Jewish orphans in her personal care becomes apparent. With the help of the resistance and a new network designed to extricate Allied servicemen from France, she will begin a dangerous and arduous journey to save the lives of those she loves most, no matter what the cost to herself might be.THE MAUREEN RITTER SERIES is by the #1 Amazon bestselling author of WHITE ROSE, BLACK FOREST, and THE LION’S DEN SERIES. Download it and discover Eoin Dempsey’s books today.
by Eoin Dempsey
Rating: 4.7 ⭐
Sometimes, the deadliest enemy lies within. It is 1942, and war is raging in Europe. Monika Ritter is in New York with her husband, Michael. Haunted by memories of her childhood in Germany and her father’s death at the hands of the Nazis, she longs to do her bit against Hitler’s rampaging armies. When Michael joins the new Army Air Force as a bomber pilot, Monika takes advantage of an invitation she receives to join the OSS, a fledgling group of spies with the mission to turn the war by gathering the most vital asset of all—information.As Michael begins to fly missions in B-24 bombers over Europe, Monika attends a top-secret training camp in the Maryland forest. After graduating, she is sent on a mission to infiltrate a clandestine ring of Nazi saboteurs dispatched from Germany to attack the American war machine on home soil. Soon, she will uncover a plot that could shift the entire momentum of the war in the Nazis’ favor. Racing against time and a dangerous adversary, Monika will have to foil a deadly plan that could change the face of the war forever.
by Eoin Dempsey
Rating: 4.7 ⭐
A broken family. A new opportunity in a country on the precipice of unspeakable evil.November 1932. Seamus Ritter, a widower with four children, returns from riding the rails in an America crippled by the great depression. Realizing that his homecoming will not be how he envisioned it, and in a desperate attempt to make amends with his 16-year-old daughter, Maureen, Seamus accepts an invitation to come and work for his long-lost uncle in Berlin. With little other choice, Seamus takes the ship to Germany with his family. Maureen leaves everything to go with her father she no longer trusts, dedicated to taking care of her younger siblings.The Germany the Ritter family encounters is vastly different than the one Seamus spent time living in as a child. An upstart politician called Adolf Hitler has come to the fore, but surely it’s only a matter of time before the right-thinking members of society banish him to the fringes of the political landscape he emerged from.As the Ritter family struggles to adjust to life in a country ravaged by unemployment and internal strife, Seamus meets Lisa, a beautiful and mysterious woman weighed down by the ghosts of her past life. When tragedy strikes, Lisa and Seamus will be forced to act together to save their lives and build a future together in a nation that, unbeknownst to the citizens there, is about to descend into the greatest evil the world has ever known
by Eoin Dempsey
Rating: 4.5 ⭐
In war, the line between right and wrong is often blurred. After spending a blissful few weeks with her husband, Michael, in Bern, Switzerland, Monika is assigned to return to Berlin, the most dangerous city in the world. Her mission for the OSS is to meet and collect information from the asset she cultivated, a man with access to a treasure trove of confidential Nazi documents. Sarah volunteers to go with her, and despite Monika’s protests, the two cousins travel to the heart of the Reich together.After a journey filled with unexpected peril, they arrive in Hitler’s capital city. Soon, the asset provides information about a fledgling project to develop nuclear weapons. After a support mission helmed by Michael and Sarah’s new fiancé, Oliver fails, Sarah and Monika spring into action. With the help of an underground group, they embark on a quest that could change not only the course of the war but also the moral compass both of them have lived by their whole lives.