NOTE: Maggie Plummer's much-awaited sequel, DARING PASSAGE: BOOK TWO OF THE SPIRITED AWAY SAGA, is now available for the many readers who enjoyed her first novel, SPIRITED AWAY - A NOVEL OF THE STOLEN IRISH. She appreciates every reader who takes the time to leave a review. Maggie is a writer from beautiful western Montana. SPIRITED AWAY, her first published novel, was a Quarter-Finalist in the 2014 Amazon Breakthrough Novel Awards Contest (General Fiction). The book was also a 2013 finalist in The Kindle Book Review's Best Indie Book Awards and placed 2nd in the Paranormal Romance Guild's Best Historical Fiction of 2013. It has 98 five-star customer reviews. Along the winding trail to becoming a novelist, Maggie has lived in various far-flung parts of the United States and worked as a journalist, book editor, book publicist, census enumerator, telephone canvasser, school bus driver, field interviewer, waitress, post office clerk, fish processor, library clerk, salesperson, Good Humor ice cream girl, fishing boat mate, race horse hot walker, apple picker, and bus girl. She is also the author of a non-fiction book entitled PASSING IT ON: VOICES FROM THE FLATHEAD INDIAN RESERVATION, published in 2008 by Salish Kootenai College Press (Pablo, Montana). Maggie is hard at work on her next novel.