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 her down in a car while she was working a case. 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 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 the underground world she never knew 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 a deed on the door. She now has the name of the man who killed her father. She follows his trail down to Boise, where she exacts her revenge.

And there she runs into a little problem. Disguised as a man, she feels bad for the daughter of the man she killed. As a woman, Fiona can't legally inherit, but if she were to be 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 him to fill the dust bowl itself.

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