May McGoldrick

May McGoldrick, Nik James, and Jan Coffey are pen names for USA Today bestselling authors Nikoo Kafi and Jim McGoldrick. Together, they have crafted over fifty fast-paced, conflict-filled historical, contemporary, and Western novels, and two works of nonfiction.

Nikoo’s education and training was in engineering. She worked in robotics and submarine shipbuilding. Before earning a PhD in sixteenth-century Scottish and English literature, Jim pursued a hundred and one jobs, including a decade in submarine construction.

Storytellers at heart, Nikoo and Jim were always searching for careers that gave them time for both family and writing. Then, after thirteen years of marriage, they recognized each other’s creative strengths. Nikoo is all about characters and feeling. Jim is about action and sense of place. Their first attempt in writing fiction together produced their award-winning novel, The Thistle and the Rose. Since then, their stories have touched the hearts and minds of millions of readers all over the world. Their work has been translated into over a dozen languages and counting.

Nikoo and Jim are four-time Rita Finalists and the winners of numerous awards for their writing, including the Daphne DeMaurier Award for Excellence, the Romantic Times Magazine Reviewers’ Choice Award, three NJRW Golden Leaf Awards, two Holt Medallions, and the Connecticut Press Club Award for Best Fiction.

The authors make their home in California.

See Also

• Nicole Cody
• Jan Coffey
• Nik James

On the Web

• Website [1]

Books

• Angel Of Skye - 1996
• Arsenic And Old Armor / Love And Mayhem - 2011
• Beauty Of The Mist, The - 1997
• Borrowed Dreams - 2003
• Captured Dreams - 2003
• Dearest Millie - 2018
• Dreamer, The - 2000
• Dreams Of Destiny - 2004
• Enchantress, The - 2000
• Firebrand, The - 2000
• Flame - 1998
• Ghost Of The Thames - 2012
• Heart Of Gold - May McGoldrick - 1996
• Highland Crown - 2019
• Highland Jewel - 2019
• Highland Sword - 2020
• How To Ditch A Duke - 2019
• Intended, The - 1998
• It Happened In The Highlands - 2018
• Jane Austen Cannot Marry - 2022
• Made In Heaven - May McGoldrick - 2011
• Midsummer Wedding, A - 2018
• Much Ado About Highlanders - 2016
• Prince In The Pantry, A - 2021
• Promise, The - 2001
• Rebel, The - 2002
• Romancing The Scot - 2017
• Sleepless In Scotland - 2018
• Sweet Home Highland Christmas - 2017
• Taming The Highlander - 2016
• Tempest In The Highlands - 2016
• Tess And The Highlander - 2002
• Thanksgiving In Connecticut - 2012
• Thistle And The Rose, The - 1995

Anthologies

• Christmas In Kilts - 2017
• Dukes By The Dozen - 2019
• A Midsummer Night's Romance - 2021
• Say Yes To The Scot - 2017

Series/Related Titles

Clan MacPherson

.5. The Thistle And The Rose

1. Angel Of Skye

2. Heart Of Gold

3. The Beauty Of The Mist

4. The Intended

5. Flame

6. Tess And The Highlander

Highland Treasure Trilogy

1. The Dreamer
2. The Enchantress
3. The Firebrand

The Pennington Family

1. Romancing The Scot

1.5 Sweet Home Highland Christmas: A Novella

2. It Happened In The Highlands

3. Sleepless In Scotland

3.5 Dearest Millie

Rebel Promise

1. The Promise
2. The Rebel

Royal Highlander

1. Highland Crown
2. Highland Jewel
3. Highland Sword

Scottish Dream Trilogy

1. Borrowed Dreams
2. Captured Dreams
3. Dreams Of Destiny

Scottish Relic Trilogy

1. Much Ado About Highlanders

2. Taming The Highlander

3. Tempest In The Highlands

3.5 A Midsummer Wedding

Awards

• 2003 RT Reviewers Choice Award Winner - British Isles Historical Romance, Borrowed Dreams

Recognitions

• 2018 RITA Award Finalist - Romance Novella, Sweet Highland Christmas: A Novella
• 2017 RITA Award Finalist - Historical Romance: Short, Taming The Highlander
• 2003 RITA Award Finalist - Short Historical Romance, Tess And The Highlander