Artistic License

Novels

Lonely heiress and artist Amelia Hart has been alone on her estate since her parents died in a boating accident. A chance encounter at a coffee shop entices her to hire the rough-and-tumble Tina Alberti to paint and weatherproof the barn on the estate she inherited. As the leaves start to turn in Rhode Island, Tina and Amelia find themselves getting a little too close.

When they call themselves friends are they fooling themselves, or are they simply using Artistic License?

Dangerous Allies

Detective Diana Stapleton has worked for the Montpellier homicide squad for too long. Her children are grown, her partner is injured, and she's on desk duties after a serial killer mowed them both down in a car. Now in her fifties, her career has stagnated.

So when she's called in the middle of the night to help translate American Sign Language for a witness, she finds the change of pace welcome, especially when she meets Naomi Happleburn, a reclusive graphic designer with hyperacusis.

Unfortunately Naomi's neighbour has been murdered, and Naomi as the only witness now finds her own life in danger.

Can Diana keep her safe, or are they Dangerous Allies?

Keeper

Susan washes up ashore a lonely island, inhabited only by the second world war veteran who tends the lamp on the rocky shores off Nova Scotia.

The winter seas prove too rough to return her to the mainland, so she remains stuck there, worried that the tide will turn and she will be returned to the sea from whence she came.

But James, the silent, reclusive man on which she now relies for her own survival, has secrets of his own that he intends to keep.

Detective Linda Guglietti is back at work after being kidnapped by her ex-boyfriend. She’d had to isolate herself from the important people in her life to keep them safe from him. While her more obvious wounds continue to heal, she must make time to also repair the rift in her personal and professional relationships.

Doctor Melanie Bright is trying to find her place in the world. At the end of the day, she just wants to go home to her toucan.

But when they come across two children’s bodies in a shallow grave, it becomes a race against time to make sure no more turn up in Doctor Bright's morgue.

Together they work night and day to track the worst kind of killer.

Will they clear the air between them, or will it forever remain unspoken?

Unspoken

Quinn's best friend Erin has always been there for her, ever since they first met as undergrads at the University of Toronto. But when Quinn finds out her life is a lie, she assesses how much of her life she wants to remain the same. When she tells Erin she's attracted to women, she expects to lose her. It doesn't stop it from hurting when she does.

But when Quinn loses her wife in a horrific accident that leaves Quinn and her unborn baby's life in danger, Erin comes home to take care of her. Can Quinn keep her there? Or has she gambled and lost everything—and then some?

And Then Some

Paige arrives home from work at The Facility to find Surveillance has found her guilty of a murder she cannot remember committing. The stranger in her home convinces her to leave with her, and she follows, confused, into an underground world she had only heard rumours about.

Consorting with people publicised as terrorists, Paige trusts them more than Surveillance once she sees the raw footage of the murder; footage she does not appear in.

Can she convince the rest of the world she's innocent, or is she stuck in this strange new world outside the only society she's ever known?

Pilot 19

Vengeance

Bianca grew up in Idaho. It's all she knows; the wheat fields she works with her father, the horse she rides to school, the town that started to slowly die as the land turned to dust.

Unable to pay the mortgage, Bianca's father is visited by his creditors. Unwilling to sign his land over, he is killed for his troubles.

Bianca returns home to an updated title to the property stapled to the door and her father's bloody body on the floor. She has the name of the man who killed her father. She follows his trail down to Boise, where she exacts her revenge.

There's a problem; the man she kills has a daughter. Disguised as a man, Bianca--now Blake--feels bad for Fiona; as an unmarried woman she can't inherit her father's ill-gotten gains. If Fiona gets married before anyone figures out her Papa is dead, then the business along with the money her father made with dirty deals is hers, free and clear. Her husband's, really, but she has enough dirt on the man she knows as Blake to fill the dust bowl itself.

Two women in delicate situations decide to pool their resources, and love blossoms amid the potatoes in Idaho.

It's winter in Minnesota.

Jasmine, a crime author, is sequestered in her apartment when she realizes she needs a specific rare, out of print book to complete her work.

Hailey, a county coroner, also needs the book, and the only copy in the city is in the library. As the snow starts to fall they so too do they--in love.

But as they get closer, the wild weather closes in, putting distance between them.

It's beginning to look like snow problem.

Snow Problem

Forging and Forgery: A Stable Job

Cara is the kingdom's property to do with as they see fit. Apprenticed to the mages, she does as she's told.

When she turns twenty, she's gifted with her own magic. She steals a horse at hits the cobblestones when she overhears the mages plotting her demise.

Sybil, who tends the royal unicorn reserve herd, isn't particularly surprised to find a woman and a horse taking refuse in her stables; it was what her father had built the hidden stall for. But the royal family has not been paying their bills, and with two extra mouths to feed Sybil is worried about how to sustain her farm and her livelihood.

When Cara starts turning iron into legitimate tender, Sybil wants to object; but how can she, when she has the royal reserve herd to tend and no money to do so.

As Cara says, at least it's a stable job.