Stalking The Wild Heart
Stalking the Wild Heart is a unique eco-literary novel set in the 1970’s and told through the voices of childhood friends, Emily and Rachel. While introverted Emily remains to homestead at Loon Lake, near the isolated mining town where they grew up, extroverted Rachel strikes out to see the world. The narrative strands converge when Rachel returns and visits Loon Lake. Here everything ended and began anew for Emily. Up against an abusive marriage and corporate greed, Emily’s life begins to unravel as she plunges down a dangerous path in order to save the wilderness she loves. A series of mysterious and life-altering events pull the reader relentlessly towards the startling conclusion.
My Life is in Your Hand
My Life is in Your Hand (the many loves of Sophia, a Norwegian rebel & Shuswap pioneer) is historical fiction based on the life of the author’s great-grandmother, Sophia. Raised on a farm in Norway in the 1800’s, Sophia, still a young woman, finds unimaginable courage to leave her home and family and to cross the ocean alone with a dream of finding her el Dorado. This was in a time when women were only beginning to be considered “persons” in the eyes of the law. Her only defense was her hatpin coupled with her fierce sense of independence. As she moves from desperation to opulence to fighting for her very survival, the other voice braided into this saga is that of her great-granddaughter, Nina. At home in the Shuswap in Canada, Nina knows that Sophia’s life journey will ultimately land her there. Their conversation spans time, generations, space–even life and death. It stands as a stark reminder that our ancestors are never far away.
