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I was driving through the small town of Westwold, BC, when suddenly I thought, “If you blink, you miss this town.” Then I thought, “Ooh, great book title!” That led to two years of traveling to various small towns in British Columbia. Some of them, I knew about and had either been to or had wanted to visit. Some of them, I’d never heard of...

M. K. Penner is a retired 737 Captain and a Canadian oil painter. He primarily paints landscapes, often of the province he loves best -- beautiful British Columbia.
This art biography features the origin story of Penner’s painting and tracks his painting over six decades of experience. With thoughts and tips from the artist, there are more than...

Are you someone who has always wanted to write a novel but hasn’t known how to start? This might be the book for you.

Are you someone who never in your wildest imagination considered writing a book... until recently? This might be the book for you.

This book contains all the things you need to know about novel writing. It discusses the parts of a...

For Raewyn Goldwin, her new job as a gallery assistant is a dream come true. Everywhere she looks she finds inspiration. Every day coming to work is a joy.
Surrounded by creative, talented co-workers, Raewyn couldn’t be happier. Getting closer to Kurt Wilder, one of the better-looking gallery regulars, isn’t a hardship, either.

Then comes the day...

PEACHLAND PASSIONS BOOK 4

Canadian Author. Canadian Setting. Canadian Content.

Owen Pankratz has seen Asha Jones around town. She’s pretty, athletic, and single, and Peachland is a small place. So, yeah, Owen knows who she is. Somehow, though, he never realized the woman who teaches yoga at the seniors centre is also a physiotherapist by trade....

Heather has always had an easier time understanding animals than people. So, it’s probably a no-brainer that she runs an animal rescue. She loves as fiercely as her rescues need and deserve -- a trait that hasn’t gone unnoticed by the man she considers her nemesis, developer, Ethan Blake.

Even back when they met in law school, Ethan and Heather...

Canadian Author. Canadian Content. Canadian Setting.

A Peachland Passion novel.
An enemies to lovers romance novel.
A second chances romance.

Nina Fournier thought she and her childhood sweetheart, Colton Boyd, would always be together. Instead, a month before high school graduation, Nina told Colton she was pregnant -- and Colton bolted. For the...

Cassidy owns the florist shop beside the Walking Walrus Cafe, and her personality is as sunny as her profession. Her rules in life are simple, do what you love, have fun, be kind... and don’t date cops. Rookie constable Ian Roshan has decided it is time to change her mind on that last rule. He is in love with her and knows it, and is prepared to...

A Christmas romance novel.

Near and Far Magazine accountant, Augusta Chamberlain, has been abandoned at Christmas. Sure her business partners and roommates, Isla and Mellie Samms, are on working holidays, but that doesn’t make Auggie any less alone. Someone had to stay behind and pitch their advertising services to Irish Whiskey distiller, Josh...

Walking Walrus Café follows three generation of women who own and work at the Walking Walrus, a beachside café. Years ago, cancer took Monya’s husband and left her alone to raise their daughter, Nina. Now, Monya has built the Walrus into a first-class diner with an excellent reputation. Monya’s daughter, Nina, and granddaughter, Louisa, have...

Amy and Jamina are besties. It doesn’t matter that they don’t share skin colours or religions. At least, not to them. The racist bomber who blows up Shad’s Electronic store -- wiping out Jamina’s entire family -- holds a different world view.

When the bomb blows, Amy and Jamina had only just left the building. They are left with both physical and...

Twin sisters Isla and Melissa Samms planned for years to start their own travel magazine. Now that Near and Far Magazine is a reality, they need articles for their winter edition. What better way to make that happen than to take separate Christmas vacations? So, laughing all the way, Mellie books herself a surf school holiday in Santa Cruz,...

The wedding everyone in Lakeland has been waiting for is finally here! With the big event happening just before Christmas -- at Zara Vineyard -- Colleen and Drew have a host of last-minute preparations to make. The rash of increasingly violent robberies happening in Lakeland are not helping make the lead up to the big day any easier.
Since all...

Abbie has been spending her early Autumn mornings working at Zara Vineyards, so she is with her grandfather and with Bobby De Luca when the body of one of Zara’s fruit pickers is discovered. Since Bobby has been sleeping with the victim, he becomes chief suspect for the crime, and the stress of finding Sabine’s body causes Charles to drop from a...

Twin sisters Isla and Melissa Samms need a hit for the inaugural Christmas edition of their publication, Near and Far Magazine. Mellie gets the brilliant idea to set up separate winter vacations, then feature these experiences in their travel magazine. Mellie is heading to surf school in Santa Cruz, California, laughing all the way, and she...

Former rodeo queen, Pearl Robinson, made one little mistake with her life.
She married the wrong guy.
Now divorced, she is coming back to her hometown of Armstrong, BC. She has a new job working as an instructor at the ranch of former town bad boy, Tim Wenger. She also has flu. When she arrives, she promptly collapses into her new boss’ arms.
That...

A killer is targeting the female realtors of Lakeland. On a birthday kayaking adventure, Abbie and friends discover a woman, injured and floating in the lake, and to everyone’s horror, the woman is Anna, Colleen’s best friend. More attacks quickly follow, and it is Drew’s job to stop the killer. At the same time, Colleen becomes convinced that...

When a loose dog interrupts her daughter’s soccer match, small town dog groomer, Colleen Lewis, catches the dog and returns it to its home. There she discovers the murdered bodies of the dog’s owners. Overnight, she is misrepresented in the press as a witness to the crime, and Colleen and her daughter, Abbie, find themselves in the sights of a...

Twin sisters Isla and Mellissa Samms have finally established the travel writer’s magazine they have always dreamed of co-editing. Now, the sisters are taking very different winter vacations which they will feature in the inaugural Christmas edition of Near and Far Magazine. While Mellie will be catching California rays and waves as a...

Award-winning country singer, Dania Maeson, is on top of the world until the night a drunk driver changes everything. The death of her husband, Lance, plunges Dania into a spiral of self-destruction. Now, three years later, Dania is sober, is living with her sister’s family in the tiny Okanagan community of Oyama, British Columbia, and is...