Beauty's Price

Regan celebrates her twenty-first birthday at Mimosa near Nice. She's with her family and her lover David Dawes and his exotic family and friends. Regan and David struggle with their past, self-doubt, baggage, and obsessions. Mary, Regan's freind and one time lover, struggles too. Envy and self-loathing grips her as she sees Regan, once so close, move away from her. The physiological drama intensifies following a dramatic accident that throws all into turmoil. Love’s power to heal is tested and Regan, Mary and David face the greatest challenge of their young lives. Can they pay beauty’s price?

Born and raised in Belfast until troubles and tribal violence drove him away, David grew to be a non-conformist unsettled world- wanderer. He found peace and his true calling as a storyteller in the Irish tradition and now lives in a vast art and book filled house on the side of the Galtee mountains in Ireland. Beloved-Brigitte and a cat with issues called Bobby, share his life here. David Rory O'Neil has written twelve novels and more are bubbling and brewing From my mind and Mac to your imagination.