For twenty-nine years, she let the world believe it had the whole story.Elko, Nevada, 1955A women's historical fiction novel about the truths we protect — and the price we pay for our silence.Seventy-six-year-old Meg Bruno has spent decades in quiet exile, guarding a truth she swore she'd never tell. Once known as the infamous Bootlegging Queen, she smuggled sacramental wine during Prohibition until the law caught up with h...

Clara doesn't trust the guest in suite 815. Her sister is too busy believing his lies.It's the holiday season of 1927 at The Hotel Hamilton, Vancouver's grandest new address, and Louisa is dazzled — a theatrical debut, a director's promise of Hollywood, everything she's ever wanted within reach. Clara has her own reasons to worry. She's newly promoted to the eighth floor, where she's learning that not every guest's attention is a gift.By the time Louisa see...

Not all of war's destruction takes place on the battlefield.Becoming Mrs. Smith is a novella told in scenes, not chapters — over fourteen years, the way memory holds onto a life: vivid in places, quiet in between. It carries you back to pre-war, small-town America, where a young couple's love story begins to unfold.Violet's heart flutters from the scarlet fever she survived as a child, and it beats faster at the sight of John Smith, the man she plans to mar...

She stopped waiting for her father’s blessing. She never stopped wanting his love.Napa Valley, 1960. Sofia Russo is forty years old, alone in her cottage, swirling a glass of Pinot Noir from her own vines. It is, by any measure, extraordinary wine. And almost no one knows she made it.In one week, she is expected to stand at the opening of the Russo family tasting room and deliver a speech honoring her father's life's work — a vineyard he has spent decades p...

Peace, serenity, balance... it is all attainable-if you just Breathe.It all comes down to breath. If we don't breathe deeply enough, we cannot fill ourselves with the joy and beauty of the world around us. If we don't release that breath, we cannot let go of all the hectic ugliness that goes hand in hand with living in a modern and complicated world.When you start on this photographic journey-this path of quiet insight and reflection-you will start to breathe again...

The verdict is hitting the airwaves — and the fate of every maid at the Hotel Hamilton has just been decided by men they've never met.Vancouver, 1928. The Persons Case has ruled that women are not legally "persons" under Canadian law, and sisters Clara and Louisa Wilson are about to feel exactly how much that ruling costs them — each in her own way.For Clara, being asked by name to fill in as hotel matron should feel like an honour. Instead, it forces a que...

Louisa Wilson is done hiding from the stage. But is she ready to face what returning to it will cost her?Vancouver, 1927. Five years after their mother's death, Clara and Louisa Wilson are still finding their footing — one sister embraces staying small, the other is counting the days until she's back where she belongs, in the spotlight instead of scrubbing someone else's bathtub.Clara has found a strange comfort in the shadows of the Hotel Hamilton. So when...

Emily Reed keeps her grief just beneath the surface — and any touch to that place leaves a mark. Elizabet Thomas has waited eighty years for a promise that was never kept: that her husband would be there when she crossed to the other side. Now, in this quiet, dual-perspective novel of women's historical fiction, their two worlds are about to collide.When Emily, a first-year attorney, is assigned to catalog the records of Seattle's aging First Church, she expects tedious hours of du...

Bernice Rosin isn't the villain of her own story. She never will be — not to herself.South Dakota, 1948. Bernice has already buried a mother and been abandoned by a father. The orphanage that raised her taught her one lesson she's never forgotten: nobody is coming to save her. So she heads west, determined to save herself — by finding a man who can keep her safe, comfortable, and never poor again.Her first attempts fail — badly, publicly. So when s...

Clara doesn't trust the guest in suite 815. Her sister is too busy believing his lies.It's the holiday season of 1927 at The Hotel Hamilton, Vancouver's grandest new address, and Louisa is dazzled — a theatrical debut, a director's promise of Hollywood, everything she's ever wanted within reach. Clara has her own reasons to worry. She's newly promoted to the eighth floor, where she's learning that not every guest's attention is a gift.By the time Louisa see...

Calla has one plan—college, and a life far from this house—until the money meant to get her there disappears.Washington State, 1964. Sixteen-year-old Calla Smith, the oldest of five, is done waiting for her father to notice what her stepmother has turned their home into. She's worked and raised her younger siblings since before she was old enough to hold a broom, counting down the years until she's gone for good. When the money set aside for her future is quietly s...

Clara Wilson found the eviction notice. Finding the courage to save her family is another matter.She's seventeen, yet waiting for someone else to act isn't an option — not with her father lost to grief and drink, her sister counting on her, and the ghost of her mother's voice still whispering, believe in yourself.So when a newspaper ad announces a grand new hotel opening in 1927 Vancouver, Clara does the only thing she knows how to do — she shows u...