Come Looking For Me
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Features: author interview, maps
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ISBN 978-1-926577-36-4
On the rugged Muskoka frontier just after Confederation, simmering animosity between settler Richard Bell and local steamboat magnate A.P. Cockburn comes to a dramatic head during the 1872 Dominion election when Bell is appointed Returning Officer for the riding by John A. Macdonald’s Conservative government, and Cockburn is a candidate for the Liberals.
No Return: A Novel of the Canadian Election that Vanished in Muskoka’s Backwoods
by Gordon Aiken
Soft cover / 6 × 9 in. / 317 pages
ISBN 978-1-926577-04-3 / $24.95 U.S./Cdn.
Features: period photographs, maps, extended author biography
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ISBN 978-1-926577-39-5
When Yaroslaw leaves his Canadian home to spend a short holiday in Ukraine searching for family heirlooms buried by his grandparents during the Second World War, he has no inkling his explorations will draw him into a dangerous quest for Europe’s greatest treasure, or that he will be caught up in the swirling intrigues of Ukraine’s “Orange Revolution.”
Yaroslaw’s Treasure: A Novel
by Myroslav Petriw
Soft cover / 6 × 9 in. / 293 pages
ISBN 978-0-9784982-7-6 / $24.95 U.S./Cdn.
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ISBN 978-1-926577-36-4
About this Book
In Come Looking for Me, a mysterious young English woman named Emily risks a crossing of the Atlantic during the War of 1812 for the promise of a new adventure in Canada. But she never arrives.
Captured by Captain Trevelyan, a man as cold-blooded as his frigate is menacing, Emily is held prisoner aboard the USS Serendipity. Seeking to save herself, she makes a desperate escape overboard in the midst of a raging sea battle and is rescued by the British crew of HMS Isabelle. Yet Emily has only exchanged one form of captivity for another, and remains in peril as England escalates its fight against the United States on the Atlantic.
Aboard the Isabelle, Emily encounters a crew of fascinating seamen and strikes up unexpected friendships, but life on a man-of-war is full of deprivations and dangers to which she is unaccustomed. Amidst heartache and tragedy at sea, she struggles to find her place among the men until a turn of events reveals her true identity. And when Trevelyan’s ship once again looms on the horizon, Emily fears losing the only man she has ever loved and falling into the hands of the only man she has ever loathed.
Come Looking for Me is a rich and compelling story of love and courage, friendship and treachery, triumph and loss. With humour and poignancy, author Cheryl Cooper captures all the colour, detail, and excitement of the great ships from the golden age of sail, while bringing to life those who fought upon them. She tells a story of the bravery of the men locked in the epic, brutal struggle that was the War of 1812, and the courage of a woman who, with extraordinary determination, labours to make her own way in life and in love.