Fiction, Small Town & Rural
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Turnaround Destinies 1933-34
by James Carlson Lake
The Great Depression is at its height and people must face a massively challenging environment. From the rich, middle class, to the poor, can the devastation of 1933 turn around? The Held family of Scott City, Indiana must adjust to the near...
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Lis
by Carol Mazur
Who would buy a seven acre peach farm in Niagara at the age of sixty-two? To the surprise of his friends, in 1958 Richard Lis did just that, and then spent the next seventeen years of his life farming and living alone in a drafty shack by the...
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The Last Best West
Never Look Back by Shannon Bradley Green
It was the 1880's, a time of great excitement in the world: Canada had opened the west. The Last Best West transports us to the private world of the aristocrat Lady Adela Cochrane, daughter of the 2nd Earl of Stradbroke and her husband, Thomas...
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The Ferryman's House
by Catherine Poag
On the surface, a quiet township in rural Ontario might seem picturesque, but in the early decades of the twentieth century, that image couldn’t have been farther from the truth. With an obscure cult, unexplained disappearances, and a series of...
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Seismic Trail
by John Zylstra
When Jack purchases a new drilling machine for his seismic exploration in northern Alberta, he expects that his biggest problem will be transporting the equipment from Venezuela back to Canada. Instead, he and his employees attract unwanted...
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The Inheritance of the Cedar Grove Resort
by Deloris Packard
They say you should never go into business with family. But what if it’s a family run business like the Cedar Grove Resort in the Muskoka’s cottage country. When her mother dies, Debbie Delanie gains two unwilling business partners: her older...
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Doors of the Veil
A New Life by G.L. Ruby-Quartz
When Lucinda is molested by her uncle, a charismatic small-town pastor in the Oklahoma Bible Belt, her parents react to her accusation with abuse, not support. One town over, sixteen-year-old Mary emerges from a coma to cruel gossip and...
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And Still the Flowers Grow
by Joan McNamee
On a sunny August afternoon in 1852, on the northern coast of Lake Erie, two dozen bodies from the ill-fated Atlantic Paddle Steamer shipwreck washed ashore and were rapidly retrieved from their watery graves by pioneer farmers homesteading on...
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The Stone Cottage
by Denis S. Lahaie
The story follows the life of Maude and Gilbert Valcour. As a young woman, Maude LaJoie, born and raised on a First Nation Reserve, leaves the isolated community to move to the nearby town of Penetanguishene. Here she meets and marries Gilbert...
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Thaw A Frozen Heart
by Debbie Nelson
It has been twenty years since Ben broke Kate's heart. Kate has built a life for herself in the years since she left her home town, the memory of her last day with Ben carefully tucked away. When she encounters him at their high school reunion,...
