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Rewilding the Blue and Gold Macaw, her companion for twenty years and the last of the exotic birds she’d rescued, rehabilitated and rehomed has left Mattie with a deeper emptiness in her life. Raised in foster care, Mattie’s never known what family truly means, though she’s felt flashes of its power. Maybe that’s what’s missing: a sense of belonging. Birds form flocks for safety, socialization, and survival. Now, Mattie longs to bring people together for the same reasons—to build her own “flock.” But her world is unraveling fast. Her partner, Simon, a First Nations leader ...

What Price Success? Kimberley James is hoping her new assignment will jumpstart her stalled career with a New York corporate relations firm. Her client wants to develop a mega ski resort in northern Canada. Her job is to convince the current owners of the land to sell. With millions of dollars to be made, it seems like a done deal. Until she runs up against Jonah Baker. Baker is part owner of a lodge on the land and an ardent environmentalist. He’s not about to permit a development that threatens ancient rainforests and the habitat of the rare and endangered Spirit Bear for any price. Kim...

Young, talented, ambitious, Freyja Brynjarrson’s a photographer struggling to crash the art establishment, the challenges presented by her family, and still keep true to her uncompromising ethic. Fate places her on the front line of a political demonstration where soldiers open fire on civilians. She photographs death for the first time and likes it. Because of the sensitive nature of her pictures the current government, facing an imminent election, tries to suppress them. But someone far more unscrupulous than government spin-doctors also wants those images destroyed. Gunnar Brynjarrson,...

Matthew Bennett, a freelance investigative reporter, is caught in the middle of the growing political and cultural polarity of our society with deadly consequences. Until recently, his beat has been political extremists, specifically white supremacists embedded in the Canadian military. With the help of an anonymous source, he’s written award-winning articles that have prompted a Parliamentary investigation. He’s anticipating more revelations when his source goes dark. Having an abundance of research and unverifiable information, he decides to turn it into a manuscript for a novel. ...

At twenty-seven years-old, George Fairweather is “the voice of his generation”, a poet whose talent has garnered him accolades from the literary establishment and homage from the disenfranchised “hippie” youth of the late 1960’s.George is the embodiment of the times with his long hair, rebellious attitude and regular use of mind-expanding psychedelic drugs.Then the sudden and tragic death of Fallon, his friend, his muse and his lover shatters his world, his sanity and nearly ends his life.Katherine is the one person who stands between George and destruction. A hanger-on, a groupie...

Mattie Saunders can save almost any bird—but rescuing people is another story. Determined, prickly, and fiercely independent, Mattie has poured her heart and every spare dollar into her failing exotic bird sanctuary. When funding disappears and the birds face homelessness yet again, desperation pushes her to an unlikely source of help: Bodine, the notorious lead guitarist of the hard-living rock band Seditious. Rich, reckless, and restless, Bodine has lived every rock ’n’ roll cliché. Fame, fortune, excess… he’s done it all, and now it all feels hollow. When Mattie storms into ...

Do you believe everything you read in the newspapers? Jim Mitchell doesn't. He's a journalist and the publisher and editor of a community newspaper, The Sentinel. He gave up a career with big media because he couldn't justify their choice of what to cover, couldn't tolerate the way they edited his stories and would not be implicit in misleading the public to benefit some hidden corporate agenda. When he bought The Sentinel, he thought all that would end. Being an owner of "the local rag," he could select the stories, edit the copy and make sure the interests of the community were served. He...

Canada is collapsing. Economic and social pressures spawned by climate change have made the federation untenable. British Columbia has seceded from Canada, and Cascadia stretches from The Rockies to the Pacific, Alaska to the 49th parallel. Though a sanctuary amid global chaos, Cascadia is not safe. Internal divisions fueled by disparity and ethnicity have spawned violent protests. The beaches and borders are besieged with waves of desperate migrants and external powers conspire to obtain their natural resources on a planet all but depleted of them. The pressures and threats from without ...

The first time Dieter Schmidt meets Mad Maggie is at a blockade on a logging road. He’s there to threaten the local First Nations band with court action if they don’t allow his client’s heavy equipment access to Deadman’s Island. Maggie emerges from the forest, but rather than chastise the lawyer for his part in trying to replace this unique ecosystem of magnificent old-growth trees with a housing development, she gives him an ultimatum. She will cure his yet-to-be-diagnosed terminal cancer if he saves the trees. Dieter dismisses Maggie's prediction as the delusions of someone ...

Can love survive opposing worldviews and dangerous circumstances? The Bird Witch, Book 4 of The Mattie Saunders Series, delivers a spellbinding mix of romance, environmental suspense, and emotional depth. Mattie Saunders is devoted to rescuing and rehabilitating exotic birds at the Saunders Bird Rescue and Sanctuary. Simon, her partner, is deeply committed to the struggle for justice for his Indigenous people. Mattie supports his cause, but not always his methods—or his growing closeness to Wendy Walters, a charismatic Indigenous politician. When a deadly avian virus begins wiping out her...

When compassion turns dangerous, trust can get you killed. Mattie Saunders has always believed in saving creatures no one else will—wounded birds, abandoned parrots, all the wild things left behind. So, when Liz, an old high school friend, asks for help housing reptiles from a refuge under police investigation, Mattie doesn’t hesitate. But this time, her generosity drags her into something far darker than animal rescue. When two drug squad detectives come knocking, Mattie learns the Reptile Refuge was a front for criminal activity—and Liz may be in deeper than she admits. As the ...

Love, loss, and the call of the wild collide in The Bird Whisperer, Book 3 in the Mattie Saunders Series. After breaking up with her rock-star partner, Bodine, and mourning the death of a close friend, Mattie seeks solitude and healing in the Rocky Mountains, researching the dazzling hummingbirds she loves. Peace proves elusive when isolation turns to danger. A predatory encounter with her university professor, a trusted mentor, forces Mattie to escape deep into the wilderness. Lost and alone, she’s rescued by Simon, an Indigenous activist dedicated to protecting his people’s heritage ...

Risking it all. Miriam is forty and frustrated. In an attempt to enhance her living-just-to-breathe life she joins some neighbours protesting a highway bypass that will destroy Eagleridge Bluffs. Not only are the Bluffs her special sanctuary, but they’re also the beautiful home of rare and endangered plants and animals.The protest gains the support of environmental organizations including the attention of a group of eco-radicals lead by an enigmatic young man named Zaahir. Miriam is mesmerized by this charismatic leader and sees him as someone that can save her as well as the Bluffs. But ...

Matthew and Raminder are young, idealistic and in love. As soon as they can they plan to leave behind the small town and small minds of Pitt Landing. They will embrace life and experience the world, maybe even change it. Man plans, God laughs. Raminder’s father has a stroke and her commitment to her family means she must postpone her plans and stay in Pitt Lake. It’s just the opposite for Matt. A family tragedy leaves irreconcilable differences between him and his father and forces him to leave. They promise to reunite, but life happens. Twelve years later, Matt is an acclaimed war ...

East Vancouver in the '50s and '60s was a low income, blue-collar neighbourhood. Kids grew up with minimum supervision. They left home in the morning, showed up for dinner, and were gone again until "the gun" sounded at 9 p.m.During the time away adventures were undertaken, friendships were forged, and character was created. East Van Rules was not only meant as a challenge, but also a code to live by.These four short stories and novella highlight coming of age events; a ten-year-old playing for the elementary school softball championship, a teenage tough strutting his stuff at the local ...