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Kate, Aubrey, and Jenny first met as college roommates and soon became inseparable, despite being as different as three women can be. Kate was beautiful, wild, wealthy, and damaged. Aubrey, on financial aid, came from a broken home and wanted more than anything to distance herself from her past. Jenny was a striver – brilliant, ambitious, and determined to succeed. As an unlikely friendship formed, the three of them swore they would always be there for one another. Twenty years later, one of them is standing on the edge of a bridge, and someone is urging her to jump. How did it come to this? Kate married the gorgeous party boy, Aubrey married up and Jenny married the boy next door. But how can these three women love and hate one another? Can feelings this strong lead to murder? When one of them dies under mysterious circumstances, will everyone assume, as is often the case, that it’s always the husband. A suspenseful, absorbing novel that examines the complexities of friendship, It’s Always the Husband by Michele Campbell will keep readers guessing right up to its shocking conclusion.
Katie Manning was a beloved child start until her mid-teens when her manager attacked her and permanently scarred her face, effectively ending her career and sending her on a path of all-too-familiar post Hollywood self-destruction. Now twenty-seven, Katie wants a better answer to those clickbait “Where Are They Now?” articles that float around online. An answer she hopes to find when her brother’s too-good-to-be-to-true finance invites her to a wellness retreat upstate. Together with Katie’s two best friends – one struggling with crippling debt and family obligations, the other running away from a failed job and relationship – Katie will try to find the inner peace promised at the tranquil retreat. But finding oneself just might dredge up more memories than Katie is prepared to deal with. Sherri Smith’s The Retreat is a twisting, visceral, bone-chilling suspense that asks: How well do you really know your friends.
Devon, 1917. Young Betty dreams of settling down to an ordinary life in Hallsands with her fisherman husband. But when he returns broken and haunted from the Great War, she find herself persecuted by his distraught mother – and yearns to escape. It is only when a storm devastates the village that Betty see her chance. Fleeing to Bristol and changing her name to Mable Brook, she seeks a new life – only to discover destiny has other plans. Penniless and alone, Mable suffers a brutal attack before being rescued by a psychic name Nora Nightingale. She gets her first taste of those who receive messages from the dead and realizes she may have this power herself. But Mabel fears her gift may be a terrible curse as it becomes ever harder to hide from the truth about who she once was and the tragic life she left behind. Heart –pounding, exhilarating and ever suspenseful, Lesley Pearse’s You’ll Never See Me Again is a tale of ones woman’s fight to find her destiny.
Known to some as the first European to explore the upper Mississippi, and widely as the namesake of ships and hotel chains, Pierre-Esprit Radisson is perhaps best described, writes Mark Bourrie, as “an eager hustler with no known scruples.” Kidnapped by Mohawk warriors at the age of fifteen Radisson assimilated and was adopted by a powerful family, only to escape to early New York City after less than a year. After being recaptured, he defected from a raiding party to Dutch and crossed the Atlantic to Holland – thus beginning a lifetime of seized opportunities and frustrated ambitions. A guest among First Nations communities, French Fur traders, and royal courts; witness to London’s Great Plague and Great Fire; and unwitting agent of the Jesuits’ corporate espionage, Radisson double crossed the English, French, Dutch, and his adoptive Mohawk family alike, found himself marooned by pirates in Spain, and lived through shipwreck on the reefs of Venezuela. His most lasting venture as an Arctic fur trader led to the founding of the Hudson’s Bay Company. Sourced from his journals, which are the best first-hand accounts of 17th century Canada, Bush Runner is a true-life adventure story like no other.
From mystical badlands and rich boreal forests to fast-flowing rivers and subarctic tundra, Manitoba and Saskatchewan are chock-full of awe-inspiring natural spaces, charming critters and recreational opportunities. In 110 Nature Hot Spots in Manitoba and Saskatchewan experienced travel writers Jenn Smith Nelson and Doug O’Neill are your tour guides to the wild side of these provinces. Whether you want to kayak alongside beluga whales, hike to the top of a sand dune, spot a whooping crane from behind a bird blind or reel in a record breaker on one of countless lakes, there is something to be discovered her for every adventurer. Sunning photographs, at a glance information and special interest features help round out this indispensable guide.