Mary McAvoy became a writer after fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue abruptly halted her six year return to the workforce after at-home parenting her two children. Not one to be idle, she turned on her laptop and began to write. Her first novel, Love's Compass, is an engaging love story with contemporary and provocative thoughts about love, marriage, family, and divorce woven throughout.

Mary has completed a second novel, The Setting of the Sun, which is a poignant story about an elderly woman who, on the day of her husband's funeral, looks back on her life in a New England mill town. Though a very different story than Love's Compass, this book also shares themes about love's power within the course of a life, and at the end of life.

A third novel is in the works and, again, love is central to the storyline, as Jerome sneaks his muse, Topaz, into a writers retreat. Drawn to the influence of Topaz sweet love, Cupid helps her in her desire to kindle love between others, and he releases arrows throughout the story and into the hearts of the guests at the retreat!

Mary lives in New England, where she was born and raised. Her nature essays and photos are featured at her blog SilverLining, and random thoughts are expressed in her blog, sublime days. Her business, Syntax and Style, offers writing and editing services, as well as websites for small businesses. She earned a bachelor’s degree in English/Classics from Regis College in Weston, Massachusetts.