DALGETY Bay author Fiona McDonald will launch her third novel in the town's library.

And there's double delight for fans as the book, The Abbey and The Reluctant Bridegroom, contains two very different but equally entertaining stories.

It is a Scottish based novel along with a short story and will be launched at Dalgety Bay Library on Friday August 5 at 7pm.

Fiona will be available to sign copies of the book, and again at Duloch Library in Dunfermline on Thursday August 11 from 7pm.

The Abbey tells the tale of Kathleen Robertson who decides to spend a quiet family holiday with her brother John on a Scottish island.

The last thing she expects is to have to fight for her life.

Fiona said: "This one is based on a Scottish island as my uncle used to be a doctor on Colonsay and I went there when I was a girl.

"I got all these ideas when I was a teenager but couldn't carry them out until I started writing."

In The Reluctant Bridegroom, Veronica Wyllie is a widow living in a small Surrey village who, after the death of her husband, is forced to make a new life for herself.

She meets and gets engaged to a charming womaniser, but then meets Dr Michael Owen at a dinner party and wonders if she should risk everything by calling off the wedding.

Fiona, who was born in Nairobi, Kenya, attended schools in Ireland and Scotland and went on to study ballet.

She owned a school of dance and later worked for the Scottish Legal Aid Board.

Her first novel was 'Gunfire', a western set in Texas, and she followed that with 'Katie Cameron', a novel set in the time of the American Civil War.

She said: "You do get blanks when you can't think what you're going to do.

"I think the only story where I always knew how it was going to end was Katie Cameron!

"With the others it wasn't so clear cut."

Fiona has already started work on her next novel, Greenlands, set in East Lothian.

She said: "I've only got 13 chapters done. I try and write every day but I've taken a break for the launch of this book."

You can find out more andcontact Fiona via her website fdmcdonald.com