The Sam Chronicles

Eleven-year-old Sam Kiernan has never felt like he belongs - not in his new school, not in the town of Cavan, and certainly not in the crumbling old house where he's come to live with his Gran. But when he discovers a cracked silver pocket watch hidden in the walls, something ancient stirs beneath the still waters of Lough Oughter.

The watch is older than anyone can explain. And it's been waiting for Sam.

Drawn into a world where Irish myth bleeds into the modern day, Sam uncovers the journal of his ancestor Brigid Kiernan - a girl who faced the same darkness a century before him. The Tuatha Dé Danann are fading. A creeping silence called An Codladh, the Sleep, is spreading across the land, and only someone who carries the old blood can stop it.

With his sharp-tongued friend Orla McGovern at his side and the mysterious bookshop owner Cillian Murtagh guiding them from the shadows, Sam must learn to trust the magic running through his veins - before the light goes out entirely.

Set against the misty shores of Cloughoughter Castle and the wild heart of County Cavan, The Whispering Stars is the first book in The Sam Chronicles - a twelve-book adventure spanning the ancient sacred sites of Ireland, where myth is never just a story, and the past is never truly gone.

For readers aged 9-13. Perfect for fans of Irish mythology, mystery, and magic.