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The Boom of the Bittern
Elegy for a Wetland
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In the final years of the 19th century, young Daniel is arrested for a homosexual act. He narrowly escapes conviction, but is forced to say goodbye forever to the Norfolk Broads—the wetland he loves. While his rich, landowning family is willing...
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What the Aurora Remembers
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Nicky Ryan has been a police officer in Canada’s Northwest Territories for six months when she’s faced with her first homicide investigation. A teenage girl has been maimed, her mother murdered, and her father is the prime suspect. Nicky’s naïve...
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Wanderers Through Space and Time
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From one of only a handful of human colonies on Mars, Joel Jones stares at the bluish star that was once his home. World War III left Earth a devastated wasteland and eradicated its population, leaving only those humans that fled to Mars...
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The Kosmos Incident
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In January 1978, the Russian satellite Kosmos 954 crashed in the Northwest Territories, scattering radioactive debris across the tundra. But what if, in their efforts to retrieve the debris, the Canadian and American militaries discover the...
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Finding Freddie
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The Canadian Men’s Rhythmic Vaulting team has finally earned a bronze medal … almost a decade after the fact. When a shocking phone call reveals that drug retesting has placed them on the podium, a group of former teammates soon learns that third...
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The Orphan and The Sky
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What if the key to saving the world lay in the hands of a child everyone forgot? In a world fractured by loss and ruled by tyrants and dreamers, a nameless orphan learns that the sky itself holds the secrets of origin, destiny, and power. Tied...
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The Garbage Persons Tacit
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To solve the problem of rabble on city streets, protesters and other outcasts, riffraff and rainbow people have been relocated to garbage dumps across the country, Over the generations they develop a complex society of their own and even a...
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The Poet's Wife
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Eighteen-year-old Yiorgos is desperate to escape the bounds of tradition and his father’s iron fist. As a child, writing poetry and roaming his beloved mountains on the island of Crete provided some reprieve, but now he is slated for mandatory...
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The Least of Men
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Sixteen years ago, Chicago surgeon Dr. David Carroll lost everything. When Russian mafia boss Dimitri Barkov tried to seize Carroll’s medical practice, David refused. Barkov’s retaliation was swift and brutal—David’s wife murdered, federal agents...
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The Dreadful Round Up
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“Death’s on its way to this town and there’s nothing we can do to stop it.” It’s October 1st in Cowboy Cauldron, a dying Prairie town where it seems like you can’t turn over a rock without something sinister popping out, and there’s a month-long...