Fiction, Historical
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Three Days Till Rapture
by Fisher Lavell
A tale of constancy and betrayal, brokenness and redemption, Three Days Till Rapture is a working-class novel set in the wilds of northern Manitoba in the 1950s. Grace is determined to save her errant young husband, Valentine Labeau – from...
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The Last Letter
A Klondike Goldrush Murder Spawns a Dynasty...and Destroys a Family by Robert L. McIntyre
The Last Letter is an epic tale of the rise and fall of the fictional Carmichael dynasty through three generations, during a period of explosive growth of the Pacific Northwest. During a punishing drought in the Midwest in 1898, a young...
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The Fated Escape
by Jean Busby
A riveting and romantic adventure during the Golden Age of Piracy when mysteriously, a girl with no memory, awakens on a pirate ship called The Fated Escape. The brutal pirates treat her well, but the captain takes her breath away. Ransomed and...
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Our Pursuit of Happiness
by T.R. Biggar
Following the American War for Independence, Betsy Green and her husband, Charles—who fought with the Loyalists—are relentlessly persecuted by their neighbours and fear they can no longer remain in New Jersey. Having traversed the land between...
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Deception of the Gods
by Richard Fraser
“There’s a saying: 'How do you know when a spy is lying? His lips are moving...'” Spring, 1944. Squadron Leader Michael Simpson (codename Thor) is just shy of his twenty-fifth birthday when an air mission in occupied France ends with a glimpse of...
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Mattawa Broken Dreams
Memoirs of a New Ontario Country Doctor by Benoît Cazabon
In 1889, Dr. Sylvain de Caseneuve arrives in New Ontario, a region recently opened to settlers, many of whom are French-Canadians. Swept up by the spirit of Mattawa's thriving community, his many endeavours to offer physical and moral care are...
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Von König's War
One Man, One Vision by Karl Müller and Thomas Butler Anderson
Von König’s War examines the extraordinary rise of Aldrich von König—one of Germany’s most enigmatic and influential figures in modern history. Told through the meticulous chronicles of his friend and fellow officer Karl Müller, this volume...
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An Unfound Door
by Nicholas Varner
In An Unfound Door, Gabe evolves from a shy, sickly loner to a thoughtful, empathetic young man as he makes his way through the turbulence of 1960s America, beginning a quest to understand the purpose of his existence and the mystery of his...
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The Healing Tree
by Frances Kelly
Ireland, 1546, and Saoirse Brennan, now Chieftain, is saddled with the care of ten-year-old Edmund Fitzroy, the illegitimate son of Henry VIII. The dying king has named nine-year-old Edward Tudor as his successor, but palace intrigues to control...
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The Governor's Granddaughter
by Theresa Redmond
Margaret Gordon is born around the year 1800 on Prince Edward Island, a British colony under the shadow of her grandfather’s shameful political misdeeds and actions, leaving the Island’s settlers caught in an unjust landholding system and...
