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The Implausible Journey of Fanny Wheeler
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A Woman’s Quest to Become a Doctor in the 1890s Seventeen-year-old Fanny Wheeler—a bright, small-town girl from Kansas—cannot fathom a life of cooking, cleaning, washing, and sewing. She needs more. She dreams of curing illness and preventing...
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His Majesty's Sailor and the Girl in the Blue Coat
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It’s the fall of 1942, and the Second World War rages on. The skies above Britain and the oceans around her are a battleground: German bombers target cities like Liverpool and Crewe, while U-Boats and warships prowl the waters between England and...
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Quetzalcoatl
The Feathered Serpent
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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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Leah
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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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The Homesteaders
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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,...
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The Last Letter
A Klondike Goldrush Murder Spawns a Dynasty...and Destroys a Family
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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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Destroying Max
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Montreal, 1960. Max Marchand’s life is seemingly perfect. He has a beautiful wife, Erin, and together with their four teenaged children, they live in a large house in Westmount—Montreal’s most desirable neighbourhood. Max is successful in his...
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The Fated Escape
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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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Mattawa Broken Dreams
Memoirs of a New Ontario Country Doctor
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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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Three Days Till Rapture
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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...
