Fiction, Contemporary Women
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Plain Jane Brown
by J. P. Dusel
Jane hasn’t left Canada since her honeymoon thirty-five years ago. Now she is fifty-six, her husband has left her for a younger woman, and she is on her way to Cuba to try to “get her groove back,” as her friend Mavis put it. That is, if she ever...
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Severance of the Sorcerer
by Kate Gateley
A spreading darkness, a final prophecy, and one last chance to live ... or die. In his desperate bid to find answers of his own, Cassius Longinus—the ancient Child of Rome—released the killing darkness upon the world. A betrayal by Julia and...
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Redamancy
The Act of Loving in Return by Andrea Castillo
A charming and heartfelt novel about the power of food as the ultimate love language. Lana has had a passion for food and cooking for as long as she can remember. Through learning traditional recipes and techniques at her grandmother’s side...
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Mirrored Wounds
by Rebecca Christo
Laura’s life was finally good. She’d freed herself from the clutches of an abusive partner, left an unrewarding career as an interior designer to follow her dreams of becoming a writer, and was finally happy. And things were only getting better....
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Crows & Cheesecake
by Candis Kirkpatrick
Nadine “Naddy” Bennet, divorced and alone for over twenty years, marries her true love in her 60’s. Tragically, she is widowed after eight short years, and in the throes of grief, allows her daughter to persuade her to move to Joie de Vivre...
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Faith
A Life Interrupted by Sharon Follows
Life has never been easy for Faith. Losing her mother at a young age, Faith has had to fend for herself, and hasn't made the best decisions. She decides to escape an abusive relationship by renting a vacation house in beautiful Prince Edward...
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A Mixed Bag
by Agnes McIntyre
Sixteen short stories from sixteen different perspectives, this thoughtful collection traverses a range of topics and themes intrinsic to the human experience. Connected only by their exploration of how we understand our world, each tale is a...
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Camila Boldsky
by Manuel Buchwald
It is 1936, and at fifty-five years old, Camila Boldsky is lost. As she retires ownership of her factory and frets about her estranged son’s emigration to Chile, political tensions in Vienna only grow thicker. But despite being a Jew, Camila...
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La femme qui ne pouvait pas parler
by Maria de Andrade
Les trois dernières années n’ont pas été faciles pour Monique, une psychologue à la retraite. En premier, il y a eu deux années de COVID-19 qui ont interrompu nos vies. Ensuite, son chien âgé est décédé et elle a dû accepter que ce fut pour le...
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Breaking Ground
by Marie Corbett
When free-spirited Carmel spends a summer working at a Canadian Rockies resort in the 1960s, she falls passionately in love. Weighed down by her Roman Catholic upbringing, and at a time when repressive morals condemned free love, she is torn...
