Marlee Sweet was in a pickle. And it wouldn't be long before she would want to be eating them! Left stranded by her boyfriend, Byron Boyd, she was now faced with singing in the band all by herself. The days grew long and weary and finally she could take no more. After travelling back to Nova Scotia to live with her sister, Grace, Marlee had to succumb to a new way of life. Living with Grace and her family gave Marlee a new sense of what family was all about, but after all the disappointmen...

A good deed might just lead Angel into a lifetime of rewards.It's been one year since Angel Walker divorced her intolerable husband, James, and one year since Jake Jordan lost his dear wife, Rosaline to a car accident. Now — twelve years since Angel and Jake last saw each other — Angel is returning to Nova Scotia to help out her aunt who's just taken a fall. But running the Bed and Breakfast turns out to be an easier challenge than dealing with widower Jake and his adorable daughter...

Savannah Harris knew she was living on the dangerous side of life when she escaped from her father's mansion and walked the streets of New Orleans. However, she did not realize just how perilous life could get until she met Broderick Blanchard. Drawn towards him like a magnet, young and innocent, Savannah longed for adventure and love, but did she find more than she had bargained for in the tall, dark Vampire?

A moment in time to reflect on the before and the after of life. The old days and the now days for all of us. It takes courage, planning, and determination to let life travel by and not slip by without the feeling of remorse or regret. Live it all, the good, bad, and otherwise. It's your life!My feelings are that poetry is a short read and can be picked up at any relaxing moment to read a few lines. Often, poetry leaves the reader feeling better, more aligned with his or herself, an...

Some of the poems in this book relate to the Holocaust. We Remember the lives of those lost during that horrendous time.This book is about trains and other track poems. Of course, track implies the track of life such as losing track of time, the track before me, and so on. The cover of this book indicates The Last Train. as many trains have been taken off their regular routes and those tracks abandoned or torn up to accommodate trails and footpaths. So, many poems here discuss the p...

Brooke is going on an overnight school trip with her grade five class. An out-of-town trip and her mother is not going on this one. Brooke has some tough decisions to make regarding choices. What's right and what's not? Her mother has given her a few rules to follow, and a few choices to make on her own. But with mom not there and temptation so close, will Brooke make the right choices?

The trees in the meadow were all showing off their beautiful fall colours. All but the tall pine tree who was being ridiculed because he wouldn't change. Then winter came and all the lovely autumn leaves had fallen and most of the trees were bare and cold. One of them learned a lesson about being yourself and not needing to change as the tall pine tree stood majestically through the winter wind and sheltered the little bare trees under his lovely thick branches.

Everyone wanted to know about her. The scariest thing of all was that she also wanted to know. Eve Summers was lost in her own dead mind. All she knew was the day before. Her whole life had disappeared after she woke up in a tiny cabin on a hillside. Befriended now by a kind woman, but harassed by a police chief, she also wondered about the man that had owned the cabin. So many questions and not one answer to who she was or where she came from.

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There were many poets who inspired me, starting with the poets of my youth. Lord Byron, because he was a rebel and had a club foot, Percy B Shelley because he had the same birthday as me. But mostly because of their intense words that touched me deeply. Yes, I was an impressionable youth. In later years, I have been moved by the poetry of Leonard Cohen, Emily Brontë, Sylvia Plath, Maya Angelou, James Whitcomb Riley, Charles Mackay, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and so many more. Rimes of an Anc...

I have put together a number of poems dedicated to the people of Ukraine. There are poems of hope. Poems of destruction. Poems of survival and many more. The people of Ukraine moved me with their resilience, fortitude, and bravery. Their courage and valor are to be commended on many fronts. It is my way of saying thank you for your bravery, and carry on the good fight.

This book is dedicated to all lovers of the short story. Whether you have hours to read a whole book or are grabbing minutes to maybe just read one at a time, the stories in this book are short reads that you can come back to whenever you have the time. There are 19 short stories in this book. So, enjoy the whole bunch at a much better price than if they were purchased individually.