A mystical Irish tale set in the sleepy little village of Ballydara...

In this luminous prequel to the short story The Christmas Visitor, you'll meet the O'Donoghue family: Maeve, Declan, Nuala and Ava...and Frank, Maeve's husband. Frank is celebrating his retirement, planning to play lots of golf, when his son Declan shares shocking news. The next day, St. John's Eve (June 23rd), Frank takes a break from his golf game and heads for his favorite getaway, a secret well, to decide how to help Declan.

Frank also plans to make a fresh start for his own marriage to Maeve. This hidden glen has always had a calming, even magical effect on him. And there, deep in the woods, Frank has an extraordinary experience that leads him to re-examine his own life as a husband and father.

In this gentle, uplifting story, can one man's loving spirit lead to a family's reconciliation? The Secret Well and the sequel, The Christmas Visitor, are the origin stories for Susan's new Fairy Cottage of Ballydara mini-series... Now available, Book 1, The Little Irish Gift Shop and Book 2, a new release, Becoming Emma!

About the Author:

Susan Colleen Browne's Village of Ballydara series includes the novels It Only Takes Once,The Galway Girls, and more. Susan is also the author of award-winning Little Farm in the Foothills, a true-life homesteading tale, and the sequel, Little Farm Homegrown: A Memoir of Food-Growing, Midlife, and Self-Reliance on a Small Homestead. Her latest book in the Little Farm series is Little Farm in the Garden: A Practical Mini-Guide for Raising Selected Fruits and Vegetables Homestead-Style.

Enjoy family-friendly books? Susan's Morgan Carey series, heartwarming fantasy-adventures for tweens, features ghosts, fairies, magic spells, and The Goonies Anniversary Celebration!

Find more about her books, as well as recipes and homesteading stories at her Little Farm in the Foothills blog... When not writing, Susan is wrangling chickens, tending vegetable beds, and dreaming up new Irish stories. Many of the farm adventures in her 4th Irish novel, The Galway Girls, have been inspired by Susan's real-life experiences!