C William Shackleton IC, with no period), has talked his best friends into backing his dream of turning a decrepit hotel on the New Jersey shore into a Club Med. The trouble is, the inn seems haunted by a force that causes people to speak with stunning honesty ... it makes everyone who visits true to what he or she is, for better or worse.Ireland by the Sea is McWilly's last change to make ithis company downsized him, his third marriage has crumbled, costing him his son, just as long ago he lost his daughter. Ghosts from the past, waiting for him there, are real, and they have plans for him. It turns out that he is in for more salvation than one man should have to endure ... unless he deserves it.