Fiction
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The Law of Parsimony
by Michael Porteous
From rookie beat cop patrolling Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside to rising through the ranks as a homicide detective, Mike St. James has gone from rubbing elbows with the desperately addicted to chasing professional killers, and taking on the city’s...
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Living Outside the Box
Time and Time Again by R. E. Siliente
This is not a tale of romance, but a meditation on love in its most selfless form: unrequited, redemptive, and eternal. When Emma, an adopted infant who grew up desiring a partner, finds herself entangled in relationships with two men incapable...
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Witness Protection
Safe at Last by Janet McCoy
When suburban family man Robert is told his office is being investigated by the FBI after someone used a company computer to search pornographic websites on the dark web, at first, he isn’t worried. A loving husband and the father of two teen...
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Cruising with Strangers
by Marsha Spink
A fter her travel partner is sidelined Marlene embarks on a cruise of the Hawaiian Islands, alone. An anxious, introverted widow, she has reservations about the solo trip but meets a number of interesting shipmates and soon finds herself...
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Two Worlds, One Soul
by Dianne De León
Meet Iliana and Luna: two professional Flamenco dancers who have enchanted and captured the hearts of their adoring fans. Iliana has long known of Luna, Spain’s own beloved gem. Luna will come to know her American counterpart (and realize she has...
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Leah
by Donald Granatstein
What happens when a family’s secret reveals a broader story of Jewish survival and loss? In Leah, a forgotten chapter of Toronto’s Jewish immigrant history comes to life. Nineteen-year-old Leah Granatstein arrived in Canada from Poland in the...
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Strawberry Hill
by Emily Morra
Family secrets are uncovered. We left Sunflower with Jack and Liv reunited and we pick up in Strawberry Hill a few years later. Then journey back in time, uncovering Carmen’s past, her secrets unfolding, suspicions confirmed, it all comes to...
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Quetzalcoatl
The Feathered Serpent by Sheonaid Kuchera
QUETZALCOATL: The Feathered Serpent is the origin myth of Mexico. In this story, Quetzalcoatl is driven out of Egypt by the deadly rage of his ambitious brother. He sails to the Yucatan and restarts life in a world recovering from a global...
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The Beings That Haunt
by Z.I. Rhodes
A would-be artist accepts a mysterious man’s lavish patronage in exchange for a very ordinary used car and gets a far stranger bargain than he expected. An embittered young woman wakes in a weird liminal world, watched over by a “guardian” who...
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The Homesteaders
by Brad Kuich
In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the Canadian government advertised homesteading in the Canadian West as a means to a prosperous future. Free land? Who could resist? Never mind the land wasn’t the government’s to give away,...
