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Author: Allie MacKay | Website

Allie Mackay is the pseudonym for Sue-Ellen Welfonder, an ex-flight attendant who now writes Scottish medieval romances. She is a card-carrying Scotophile whose burning wish to make frequent (free) trips to the land of her dreams led her to a twenty year career with the airlines. Bi-lingual, she flew international all those years, working her flights as foreign language speaker. Her flying career allowed her to see the world, but it was always to Scotland that she returned. Now a full-time writer, she's quick to admit that she much prefers wielding a pen to pushing tea and coffee. She spent fifteen years living in Europe and used that time to explore as many castle ruins, medieval abbeys, and stone circles as possible. Anything ancient, crumbling, or lichened caught her eye. She makes annual visits to Scotland, insisting they are a necessity as each trip gives her inspiration for new books. Proud of her own Hebridean ancestry, she belongs to two clan societies and never misses a chance to attend Highland Games. In addition to Scotland, her greatest passions are medieval history, the paranormal, and dogs. She never watches television, loves haggis, and writes at a four-hundred-and-fifty year old desk that once stood in a Bavarian castle.


Published Works & Book Reviews

Haunted Warrior

Kendra Chase is exhausted from her work as a ghost whisperer, so she's been looking forward to her vacation in Edinburgh. But work awaits her as the tiny fishing village is being excavated, and supernatural uprisings have been reported.

Graeme MacGrath knows the source of the psychic trouble. The excavation is disrupting the protective veil between this world and darker, more ancient ones. He hates to admit it but he will need the fetching Kendra and her paranormal abilities to save the town he loves from unspeakable evil.

Reviewer: Sarah Dizon
Review: Mar 17, 2012
Genre(s): Paranormal Romance, Historical Romance, Time-Travel, Scottish
The one thing I have to start off with is the synopsis advertised for the book is slightly misleading. There are some things that are confusing in the synopsis that do not actually happen in the book the way it is described. I'm trying to be specific without giving anything away, but that proves to be difficult. The ghosts do not play as big of a part in the book, as what is described. The book followed a st

Must Love Kilts

Margo Menlove loves everything Scottish-especially the legendary warrior hero Magnus MacBride. But while exploring in the Highlands she picks up a magical stone on the shore, and awakens to the sight of MacBride himself. And the reality may be much more dangerous-and passionate-than her dreams could ever be.

Reviewer: Jennj
Review: Feb 26, 2011
Genre(s): Historical Romance, Time-Travel, Scottish
Must love Kilts is the latest in Allie MacKay’s fabulous series of Scottish Ghosts and the time traveling women who fall in love with them! This is the story of Margo Menlove (she is the sister of Mindy the heroine from Some Like it Kilted for those of you who are fans of the series you will remember her I’m sure) Margo was born a Scotophile - she lives breathes and eats anything to do with Scotl

Some Like It Kilted

A woman's heart needs a loving home--

Even if it's a little bit haunted.


Mindy Menlove lives in a castle that was transported stone-by-stone from Scotland. But when her fiancé dies in scandal and Mindy decides to sell the gloomy estate, her plans unravel. She must travel to the Hebrides, where she's confronted by the castle's original builder-who happens to be maddeningly irresistible and seven hundred years young.

Bran of Barra was a legendary chieftain. Since then he's enjoyed his ghostly pleasures, until Mindy's appearance disrupts them. Now, if the roguish Bran doesn't change Mindy's mind about his bonny homeland-and himself-neither of them will ever find any peace.

Reviewer: Jennj
Review: Feb 8, 2010
Genre(s): Paranormal Romance
Some Like it Kilted is the fourth book in Allie Mackay’s wonderful Highland Ghost series. For those of you that have enjoyed the series so far - this is one that we have all been waiting for; this is Bran of Barra’s story! (For those of you that have not read this series before it would make a great stand-alone and I think will have you rushing out to get the others as well!) Mindy Menl

Reviewer: Jennj
Review: Oct 20, 2008
Genre(s): Paranormal Romance, Historical Romance
If you like a book that will grab you make you laugh out loud and your heart go thud! You will love Allie Mackay’s books. This is the third in her Paranormal Scottish series and it is Hardwick’s Story.    Hardwick Seagrave has walked the earth for centuries ever since one fateful day when a vengeful traveling bard cursed the brave and handsome Highland knight to wander the world pleasu

Highlander in Her Bed

She's fallen in love with an antique bed. But the ghostly Highlander it comes with is more than she bargained for... Tour guide Mara MacDougall stops at a London antique shop-and spots perhaps the handsomest bed ever. Then she bumps into the handsomest man ever. Soon Mara can't forget the irresistible-if haughty-Highlander. Not even when she learns that she's inherited a Scottish castle. Spectral Sir Alexander Douglas has hated the Clan MacDougall since he was a medieval knight and they tricked him into a curse-the curse of forever haunting the bed (the very one that Mara now owns) that was once intended for his would-be bride. But Mara makes him feel what no other MacDougall has-a passion that he never knew he'd missed.

Reviewer: Jennj
Review: Oct 20, 2007
Genre(s): Paranormal Romance, Historical Romance
This is the first book from Allie Mackay (pen name for best selling author Sue Ellen Welfonder) in her paranormal Scottish romance series. I devoured this one from start to finish, couldn't put it down. When tour guide Mara MacDougall spots an antique bed in a London Antique shop little did she know that her life was about to change in BIG ways. She is enchanted by the unique bed and has to have it what s

Highlander in Her Dreams

After stepping through a magical gateway, Kira Bedwell finds herself face-to-face with Aidan MacDonald, the irresistible Scottish highlander who has visited her in dreams. Now that their romance transcends dreams to reality, they find themselves under attack by Aidan's enemies. And it will take all of their courage and will for their love to survive beyond time itself...

Reviewer: Jennj
Review: Sep 7, 2007
Genre(s): Paranormal Romance, Historical Romance
This is the second book from Allie Mackay and is the continuation in her wonderful paranormal Scottish series. I loved this one as well as I did the first one. Ms. Mackay has a wonderful combination in her writings of Scottish charm, humor and yes hot romance! And who can resist a sexy highland warrior in his kilt, sword in hand *sighs*. A truly great book that you will enjoy and find yourself laughing out l

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