The over hundred and fifty rejections he received from publishers didn’t discourage him. Eoin finished his first novel a year later. It was during Eoin’s second stint in the USA, which he spent with his brother in New York City, that he decided to start writing a novel, for the express purpose of impressing women. He met his beautiful wife, Jill, while traveling to the USA in 1997, though it would be several years before he managed to break her down and they got together as a couple. While Eoin did attend college, studying wasn’t his priority there. He played in bands through his teens and well into his twenties before harsh reality came calling, and his dreams of being the next Keith Moon faded.Įoin made the ill-reasoned decision to study business in university and was accepted into University College Dublin to study Commerce in 1995. Due to a lack of talent, he soon abandoned that goal for the more reasoned path of the rock star.

Eoin’s first ambition was to play rugby for Ireland. Eoin had a fantastic time attending Blackrock College, where he played rugby (poorly) and did his best to coast his way through. He grew up in the beautiful Dublin suburb of Dalkey, where he and his friends would jump into the icy waters of the Irish Sea (during summertime) to prove their manliness.

Hunted by the Gestapo, can they trust each other enough to join forces on a mission that could change the face of the war and their own lives forever?Įoin Dempsey was born in Dublin, Ireland in 1977. Their tenuous bond becomes as inseparable as it is dangerous. But when it turns out that he is not who he seems, Franka begins a race against time to unravel the mystery of the airman’s true identity. Unwilling to let him die, Franka takes him to her family’s isolated cabin despite her hatred for the regime he represents. That is, until she discovers an unconscious airman lying in the snow wearing a Luftwaffe uniform, his parachute flapping in the wind. Fervor and brutality have swept through her homeland, taking away both her father and her brother and leaving her with no reason to live. Now, as deep drifts of snow blanket the Black Forest, German dissenter Franka Gerber is alone and hopeless. In the years before the rise of Hitler, the Gerber family’s summer cottage was filled with laughter.

In the shadows of World War II, trust becomes the greatest risk of all for two strangers.ĭecember 1943.

White rose black forest by eoin dempsey