Clara Calloway spent nine years learning how to make a spreadsheet lie beautifully for a Vancouver consulting firm. Coming home to Millhaven was only ever supposed to be a job: audit the water-rights deal, sign off, fly home. She did not expect the cold spring current under her mother's library to answer to something in her own chest that has no name in any report she's ever written.Mateo Cardinal has spent his whole life keeping the one thing he can't afford to lose — his family's...

Naomi Thompson-Osei has built her whole career on being the one person in the room with nothing to gain from the answer. So when a heritage foundation hires her to assess a derelict bunkhouse on a Manitoba sugar-beet farm, she expects six tidy weeks, a clean report, and a fellowship that finally proves her name means something. She does not expect her own hands to go cold every time she touches something the farm has spent eighty years trying to forget.Ren Tanaka has spent his whol...

Richard Halden died in his Coal Harbour penthouse on a Tuesday morning — heart failure, no marks, no note. Three days later, forty-seven million dollars walked out of his private bank account, authenticated by his voice, his fingerprint, and his own retina.Nobody can explain that. Nobody except Mara Vale even tries.A former Vancouver homicide detective who lost her badge chasing a truth nobody wanted found, Mara traces the money into something worse than fraud: a warehouse ...

Cornwall, Ontario is running dry, and the lake is finally giving up what it swallowed sixty-seven years ago.Hydrologist Mara Venn has spent her career trusting that evidence speaks for itself. Then a record-low water level exposes the drowned road of Aultsville — the village her own family never talks about — and a rusted bell bracket bearing a name from her grandmother's hidden past. What Mara finds beneath the surface doesn't just threaten to expose a decades-old betrayal. It thr...

Twenty-five years ago, Eli Morgan broke her heart and never explained why.When Claire Bennett inherits her late mother's crumbling inn on the Nova Scotia coast, she comes home only to sell it, sign the papers, and leave the past exactly where she left it a quarter-century ago. But her mother kept secrets sealed behind more than one locked door — and someone in Harbor Point wants them to stay buried badly enough to threaten the woman who found them.The one man standing betwe...

Amara Cheney doesn't need saving. She built that lesson into the walls of Cheney Auto Repair one bolt at a time, the same way she rebuilt herself after the husband who drained her accounts and vanished, no help, no shortcuts, and no one she has to trust but herself.Then a black F-150 rolls too fast into her gravel lot, and the man who climbs out turns out to be exactly the kind of trouble she swore she was done with: charming, evasive, and hiding something. She just doesn't know ye...

Dr. Sarah Chen has spent eleven years teaching trauma survivors how to stay inside their own bodies long enough to heal. She has never once believed there was a shortcut.Then Emma Voss walks into her office and makes a stranger's worst night simply stop existing.Emma isn't lying, and she isn't dangerous — not exactly. She can reach into another person and lift out what hurts most, cleanly, painlessly, for nothing in return. Word spreads fast in a city exhausted by its own g...

At the Mount Royal Dog Show, presentation is everything — until celebrity chef Henri Beaumont turns up dead beside a half-eaten canapé, and presentation becomes a considerably smaller concern.The only witness is Pompadour: a prize-winning Persian with a flawless palate, a formidable memory, and an attitude problem sized for a much bigger cat. She knows exactly what killed him. Unfortunately, everyone who could act on that information hears nothing but a very well-groomed animal mak...

In a town built on comfortable lies, digging up the truth will cost them everything—including their second chance at love.Twelve years ago, a deadly crash on Chapel Ridge Road was officially ruled an accident on black ice. But everyone in Meridian Hollow knows the truth: the road didn't freeze. It collapsed under the weight of toxic industrial waste that the town's wealthiest family quietly buried beneath decades of silence.Marisol Vega has spent years guarding the secret f...

Set in the North Woods at the headwaters of the Mississippi, Heart of the North includes stories of ordinary lives in a starkly realistic Minnesota landscape. Inspired by Hemingway's belief that the deepest truths lie just beneath the surface, these tales—like "Summer Dreams," where two women share a bottle of wine and the unspoken weight of their lives—capture the quiet lives of the people who live in the land of lakes and prairies, and forests.

A long-ago summer. Ask the Wippoorwill is a pastoral journey back to a time before the Internet and before cell phones—a novel about friends spending summer days fly fishing on a beautiful Wisconsin trout river. A tale of love, reckless lust, and the tragedy of the open road..., equal parts cozy outdoor escape, evocative romance, and classic road story. This novel explores how freedom, desire, and a single choice can echo across a lifetime.

WALKING TO FORT RIDGELY is an authoritative and profound narrative history, blending memoir, travelogue, and fiction to explore the long, dramatic path that led to the Dakota War of 1862. It is the story of a walk I was talked into, from St. Peter to Fort Ridgely, Minnesota—to retrace the leadup to a crucial time in Minnesota history. A crucial book for readers of American history and indigenous studies.