Fiction, Small Town & Rural
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Fair of Face
by Rosemary Hurren
Welcome to Edenvale, a small town … with big secrets. When Private Investigator Kit Kotcka arrives in Edenvale, Ontario, to look into the background of a teenage mother whose infant child recently died of starvation, an ethereal smell of smoke...
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Solomon
by Warren Gill
“He's beautiful!” I exclaimed. The horse—a large, bay stallion with intelligent brown eyes—turned toward us. And I could swear he laughed. When Tennessee grad student Barbara Dickerson first meets the reclusive Doc Grand, she isn’t sure what to...
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They Don't Make Studebakers Anymore
A Fictional Memoir by David Becker
I was born on the hood of a Studebaker . . . So begins the story of Boy, coming of age in a small town in the 1960s. From trying to understand the Cold War, to first kisses, and the moon landing, Boy struggles to make sense of his world. The...
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The Rabbit Kicks Back
by Allan David Mowat
In this gripping sequel to When the Rabbit Jumps, Lucas, a troubled young teen, and Jarrod, an escaped convict, are on the run once again, this time through Southwestern Ontario and the American Midwest. Both of them are attempting to escape not...
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Lost Village
by Michael Saver
A pair of brutal murders shatters the uneasy peace of the tiny town of Conawalki, Ontario, threatening to rip the community apart. For years, the residents have struggled to rebuild their lives and their community’s identity after the town was...
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The Newfoundland Lunch Party
A Sisters of the Soil Novel With Recipes by Sonia Day
The Sisters of the Soil meet up again for fun times and good food – this time in Newfoundland – where Hannah, from the U.K., makes an extraordinary find outside Rhodo’s saltbox house by the sea. She insists it’s worth a fortune. But is she right?...
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The Gospel According to Saint Scooter
And Other Tales from the Frontiers of Life by Phil Burpee
The seventeen stories in this collection range from short vignettes to sprawling novellas. The characters who appear in them are ordinary folk, full of flaws and frailties, who embark upon journeys that call them to rise to unforeseen challenges....
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The Distance
Dreams and Despair by Judy Pollard
The Distance tells the story of two Swiss immigrants, Thomas and Wilbert, who arrive in British Columbia’s Kootenay region in the early 1900s, lured by promises of adventure and prosperity. Their dream soon fades, giving way to the harsh...
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A Canadian Werewolf in Montana
by W. K. Shephard
For police officers Andew and Logan, a simple overtime shift will become a nightmare…. This story will account the tragedy that befell the town of Eureka, Montana. When a blood thirsty, foreign monster terrorizes the innocents, it will leave a...
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Colors
Stories and Poems in Different Shades by Samuel Lucy
“Colors” is a blend of short fiction and poems folded into one collection. Rural settings both rugged and soft act equal parts with the characters. Human relations, animal relations and never ending relationships with the land itself play-out...
