Mary Anne Lonergan
McColl's Gates is the first of the four series of each of the Covehill Ladies lives and their adventuers.
In the first of the four series, Jennifer Anne McColl was a young orphan, at the tender age of 8 years old, her grandfather put her into Covehill Boarding School. It was there that she met three friends, forming a close, and long lasting friendship. Each of the four girls graduated Covehill and all went their separate ways to begin their adventure.
Read how Jennifer became an instant millionaire, falling in love with her wild Irish neighbour Robert, whose brother has connections with the Irish mafia. With Robert sitting somewhere in jail, who will save Jennifer from a black bear attack?
My plan is to take the readers on trips around the world, following the Covehill Ladies as each of their lives begin to unfold in this world of love, adventure, and mystery.
Mary Anne Lonergan is a member of Society of Composers, Authors and Music Publishers of Canada (SOCAN) and Songwriters Association of Canada (SAC). She originally started out writing song lyrics, many of which won awards through Unisong, Song of the Year, Nashville Song Service, and Paramount Group. One song took 2nd. place, entitled "Full Moons and Red Clouds" is a tribute for abused women around the world.
Mary Anne is also a member of the Canadian Poetry Association, her most recent poem, "What I Would Do," is a tribute to all hearing impaired and deaf people, is published in the Stellar Showcase Journal - 2007 Summer Edition magazine. She is a Life Time Member of the Canadian Hearing Society.
It was time to take her love of writing one step further and write her first novel. Mary Anne became a member of the Canadian Authors Association and finds herself exploring her mind for ideas, taking her readers on adventures involving love and mystery, all from different parts of the world.
Mary Anne Lonergan lives in Newmarket, Ontario with her husband Michael, they have four grown children. She is currently writing her second, third, and fourth book on each of the Covehill Ladies.
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Byrne’s special case. The chief introduced his three police
officers to Judge Harry.
After the judge told McTagger how Jenny had gotten
away from her hotel, they all went in and inspected Jenny’s house. Chief
McTagger then suggested they go out and check over the
property.
One of the officers used a battery-operated spotlight
to scan the front of her property. Satisfied all was okay,
they next checked out the garage and the barn; still no
Jenny or Uno. They walked around to the back of her
house and scanned the back property for anything usual
till the lights shone on the open gateway. Judge Harry,
seeing the open gateway, shouted for the officers to follow
him. In his heart, the judge knew that something was not
right. Jenny’s car was still parked in her driveway, and her
luggage was unpacked and sitting in the hallway. On top of
all that, the gate was open, and he knew that Jenny always
kept it closed for fear of the animals upsetting Uno.
On command, the officers and the judge began hunting
the backgrounds for Jenny and her dog. They called out
their names while watching the spotlight scan the ground’s
horizon while searching for them.
A knot had formed in pit of Judge Harry Moore’s
stomach while he was wishing that he had discouraged
Jenny from buying a house out in the country.
This is no
place for a young girl of her age, millionaire or not,
he
angrily thought to himself for not being more persistent with her
decisions.
