Author Fran Sweeney to Talk at Library Headquarters

Fran Sweeney will read from her novel, The Royal Carpet, a humorous tale of romance, at 2:30 p.m. on April 27, at the Alachua County Library Headquarters.

Queen Elizabeth’s small entourage gets displaced during a summer thunderstorm while driving from Miami to North Central Florida to buy horses. Her car ends up disabled outside a sixty-acre farm in Alachua County. That’s when the fun begins. Over a two-day period, a romance develops between local resident Fiona and a secret-service guy. The queen carves out a bit of life for herself, and Fiona’s feisty aunt from Ireland joins the ensemble and attempts to right a wrong from the time of the “troubles” between England and Ireland. The Royal Carpet is fast paced action in a humorous tale of romance and the unexpected.

Sweeney lives in Alachua County, Florida, on “a bit of land” with her dog companions and a murder of crows. The crows entertain her at a window bird feeder as she sits at the computer making up stories.