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Gold Medal Finalist – First Place, Historical Mystery, BookFest 2024


Bronze Medal Award for Best Regional Fiction, Mid-Atlantic, Independent Publishing Book Awards.

The MacKay Mysteries

The MacKay Mysteries Series

A young, naïve Scotsman arrives in the American colonies at the end of the French & Indian War. Following his dreams, his journey continues through the political intrigues leading up to the American Revolution. Escape into history!

Meet Carol

Author-Amateur Historian-Traveler-Celtic Enthusiast

History permeates almost everything Carol enjoys, especially travel—just ask her family! She also enjoys gardening, especially learning about plants from the past and their culinary and medicinal uses.

Over the years, she has put her passion for history to good use as a volunteer and an interpreter spanning different periods from the Romans to the Middle Ages to the Revolutionary War. Carol is a member of the 7th Virginia Regiment and volunteered as a docent at Ker Place, a colonial home. Carol fulfilled a lifelong dream of participating in an archaeological dig of a Roman Domus on the island of Malta in 2022 and 2023. In 2024, she joined a team in Maryland digging the home of Thomas Cresap, a character in one of her novels.

Carol and her husband, Dave, recently returned from Europe and now call Virginia home. The couple explores historical sites with Widgit, the History hound, who often joins them on their escapades. The two cats prefer to stay home.

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