Isabel Morton’s prominent Nova Scotia family wants the best for their twenty-four-year-old daughter—a suitable marriage—but Isabel will have none of it. She wants to be free, even if it means she must live as an “old maid” in a garret. Then she meets William Wishart, who offers her the freedom to follow her own stars if she marries him.
But how does a woman follow her own stars in a culture where women are the property of their fathers, or if married, their husbands, and are to be meek, pious, and subservient? With no access to representative government, no right to vote, how can women be free? Isabel tries to find a way through many twists and turns of fate until, at last, she realizes that freedom for herself is not enough; she chooses to work for women's suffrage in order to gain freedom for all women and their daughters and granddaughters.
Spanning the years 1837 to 1873 and based on the author’s own family, this work of historical fiction follows Isabel from bucolic Upper Dyke V

In a land torn by crusade and rebellion, honor is earned in blood.

1205. Richard Fitz Simon has fled England after his title was usurped, joining the Livonian Order of Swordbrothers – a German brotherhood of warrior-monks fighting to bring the word of God to the pagan frontier. After slaying the Lithuanian champion at the Battle of Rodenpois, Richard is celebrated by the Order and their Semigallian allies.

Yet his position remains precarious. Jealous rivals question his right to stand among the brotherhood, and his master, Knight-brother Rudolf, is enraged by Richard’s disobedience. When dark secrets from Lübeck resurface, Richard also finds himself at odds with Bishop Albert, head of the Christian mission in Livonia. As he struggles to reconcile faith, duty and identity, he is drawn into a brutal world of suspicion and bloodshed.

Bound by faith. Forged in battle. Haunted by doubt.

1242: Wounded at the Battle on the Ice, English knight Richard Fitz Simon becomes a prisoner of Prince Alexander Nevsky of Novgorod. Intrigued by his captive, Alexander orders his scholar to record Richard’s life story.

Richard’s chronicle begins in 1203, when betrayal shatters his training for knighthood and forces him to flee England. In Lübeck, he finds work with a ruthless salt merchant and becomes entangled in an illicit affair – until scandal and violence drive him onward once more.

Seeking purpose, Richard joins the Livonian Brothers of the Sword, a militant order bent on bringing Christendom to the pagan Baltic. In the harsh outpost of Riga, he faces not only enemy tribes beyond the walls, but suspicion, ambition, and betrayal within – while grappling with doubts that threaten his faith.

When a vast pagan army threatens to overwhelm the commandery, Richard must choose what kind of man – and believer – he will become.

Acadian Shorelines relays the hijinks and heartaches of teenager Tommy Breau growing up in the late 1960s in a small Acadian fishing village in Nova Scotia, where American radio broadcasts of pop music, world news, and baseball come in more clearly than the Habs games from Montreal. Hilarious and heart-breaking in equal measure and featuring a rich cast of smart but clueless friends, wished-for girlfriends, and a loving if strict family, Acadian Shorelines has the adult Tommy looking back and wondering whether the French Catholic upbringing he was so eager to escape may have been the best years of his life.

Sr Arthur Wellesley's Talavera Campaign

Summer, 1809. Sergeant Joshua Lock and Captain John Killen ride deeper into Napoleon's Spain, a part of Sir Arthur Wellesley’s British army.
With Killen ordered to report on how far he believes Wellesley’s new allies can be trusted, Lock, serving away from his childhood friend, falls foul of a murderous local bandit.
And in a region mired in ancient superstition and myth, will either discover the dragon rumoured to prowl the wilderness of Castille is a chimaera of folklore, or horribly real?

Return to Portugal and the Combat at Amarante.

Spring, 1809. Sergeant Joshua Lock and Captain the Honourable John Killen are ordered to sail back to Portugal to contact a missing Exploring Officer working behind French lines. But even if they survive a gauntlet of enemies on the journey, delivering the vital message Killen carries may still not be enough to save Sir Arthur Wellesley’s imminent British re-invasion from ultimate failure.

"I really hope that Jonathan Hopkins continues this excellent series."
"...the book is a page turner..."

Sir John Moore's march through Spain and the retreat to Corunna.

Autumn 1808. The French army is gone from Portugal...except for one man. And what he has stolen is deadly secret.
Sergeant Joshua Lock and Captain the Honourable John Killen pursue the spy deep into Spain ahead of Sir John Moore’s British army - a force now ordered to fight the French alongside Spanish troops. But instead of helping their new allies, the Spaniards seem to have turned against them.
Whilst unbeknown to the bickering allies, Bonaparte himself is storming through Spain with but a single purpose......to destroy every ‘mangy English leopard.’

"Another highly enjoyable cavalry tale..."

From first meeting to the Battle of Vimeiro.

Joshua Lock and The Honourable John Killen are social opposites. Thrown together by a terrible accident, their ensuing friendship has to survive bigotry and separation. When military duty takes the two young men to Portugal, both must fight to save their regiment from disaster in the first great cavalry charge of the Peninsular War.

"Promising start to a Napoleon era cavalry series."
"Cracking read with some solid characters and well written action."

**Your choices determine survival.**

*Lanista of the Iron Sand* is an **interactive historical adventure**—a modern gamebook where **you decide what happens next**.

Enter the Roman arena as a former soldier forced to fight, scheme, and endure as every decision shapes your fate.

This is not a traditional novel.
It is a **choice-driven narrative** inspired by classic adventure gamebooks, where the reader is an active participant in the story.

**Features:**
- Interactive, choice-based storytelling
- Multiple story paths and endings
- Historically grounded Roman setting
- Designed for readers who enjoy agency, consequence, and replayability

Your fate is not predetermined.
Your survival depends on the choices you make.

Long before treaties and boundaries, the Creek people lived in harmony with the land. At the heart of this story is Shinbone, a young Creek with quiet strength and wisdom who becomes Chief. Hue a young white settler and Nizhoni, Shinbone’s daughter

Squeezed out of her summer plans with her friends by the Briars estate’s new owners, thirteen-year-old Emily must now care for that little boy from Canada’s West—while dealing with her own anxieties.
Emily throws herself into the challenge, and her friendship with Jackie blossoms.
But when following up on leads in a book, they discover a threat to their home. Emily and Jackie dig in to fix it.
Hmmm … When’s a win not a winner?
And those pesky Indigenous spirits Emily picked up last winter—they’re going wild.

The Briars Believed may be enjoyed as a standalone novel. It picks up from the end of The Briars Between in July 1919 and builds on the author’s family and Jackson’s Point lore.
This heartfelt coming-of-age tale, set against the backdrop of a turbulent time in Canadian history.
If you love shows like CBC’s Anne with an E and the works of Louise Erdrich, you’ll feel right at home in this series.
“Readers will enjoy history brought to life with warm

Hitler's Blitzkrieg erupts across Western Europe, thrusting British Private Bill Brooks into the hellish maw of modern war. Commanded by his elder brother, Lieutenant Jameson Brooks, Bill confronts staggering German assaults in the blood-soaked fields of Belgium and France. As the war darkens, Bill's hopes of making it to his French bride, Augusta, and keeping her safe from the Nazi wave, look more impossible.

In London, Winston Churchill is appointed Prime Minister on the very day the German offensive begins. Haunted by the ghosts of his Gallipoli failure, he battles a fractious Parliament, a contentious War Cabinet, wavering French allies, and the German steamroller.

As Bill claws for survival on the front lines, Winston fights to keep Britain in the war. Torn between conflicting duties, doubts and desires, both men wrestle with soul-crushing decisions that alter their lives and the course of history.