"Plots in the Pantry" is a collaborative effort of Vancouver Island writers whose genres are wide-ranging, from science fiction to cookbooks. What they do have in common, however, is a love of writing, the beautiful part of the world they live in, and a love of Christmas. "Plots in the Pantry" contains eight Christmas stories, and eight Christmas recipes that refer to food mentioned in the accompanying story. The stories take us from Nanaimo to El Salvador, the wilderness to the big city, 1960 to 2025, and feature characters from young to old, providing truly family reading. "Plots in the...
"Plots in the Pantry" is a collaborative effort of Vancouver Island writers whose genres are wide-ranging, from science fiction to cookbooks. What the...
A new body, a new life... Because of a facial disfigurement, Nurse Grace Joye has never felt beautiful, and when she's told a brain tumor will end her life within a matter of weeks, she's devastated. Grace's friend, psychiatrist Dr. Robert Andrews has been experimenting with spirit travel. He suggests that Grace transfers her spirit to the body of his newest patient-Mrs. Vanessa Knight, a gorgeous-looking woman who is soon to be released from life-support. Grace doesn't need much convincing to take this drastic step. She will live on and realise her dreams: to be a mother, and be loved by a...
A new body, a new life... Because of a facial disfigurement, Nurse Grace Joye has never felt beautiful, and when she's told a brain tumor will end her...
In this electrifying romantic suspense set in the steamy streets of New Orleans, Lieutenant Commander Nik Baudin, accidently meets up with an identical twin he never knew existed. When his brother Max goes missing, Nik assumes his identity as Special Agent Maximilian. This gives him access to FBI files making it easier to arrest the gangsters who attacked his brother and to stop their trafficking of underage girls. Being that Nik has specialized commando training, he's the perfect man for the job - that's if his PTSD doesn't kick in and leave him cowering in a corner. Special Agent Maya...
In this electrifying romantic suspense set in the steamy streets of New Orleans, Lieutenant Commander Nik Baudin, accidently meets up with an identica...
Angelina Serrano is determined to prove to her two bossy brothers and especially her doting Papa that she not only has the skills, but the gumption to work with them in family accounting firm in Santiago, Chile. To do this, she makes a bargain with her father, that in two years, she will have opened her own firm and paid off the majority of its debt. But what's a girl going to do when two months before the deadline, an unforeseen earthquake, a sassy teenage runaway and a charge of theft are obstacles she's forced to overcome. Top that with her meeting the most dangerous complication of all, a...
Angelina Serrano is determined to prove to her two bossy brothers and especially her doting Papa that she not only has the skills, but the gumption to...
In this Christmas love story, Deputy Shawna Mallory finds runaway, Billy McCrae, in a mound of snow with an anxious puppy guarding him. He's a sad child, surviving a terrible existence until she puts a stop to it and becomes his foster parent. Drawn to the snarky kid, she just wants his life to be happier, his and the stray mutt who won't leave his side. Not that the boy cares at all about the dog... or her. After the death of his wife, John Reid McCrae has returned to Carlton Grove with only one goal. To get his son Billy back. He'll do whatever it takes, no matter who gets hurt - until he...
In this Christmas love story, Deputy Shawna Mallory finds runaway, Billy McCrae, in a mound of snow with an anxious puppy guarding him. He's a sad chi...
Wheelchair bound, Amelia Lloyd is embarrassed when the neighbour calls the police to deal with her out-of-control brother. Her old dog tries to protect her but it takes the combined efforts of a handsome police Sergeant and a crabby puppy to put a stop to her sibling's shenanigans. At first, she hates to be caught in such a situation. But then she accepts an important truth. The big-hearted man, her savior, wouldn't have come into her life otherwise. Sergeant Harley Carlton is exhausted from dealing with a car accident where everyone is killed except for the darling cherub who decides she's...
Wheelchair bound, Amelia Lloyd is embarrassed when the neighbour calls the police to deal with her out-of-control brother. Her old dog tries to protec...
Stranded in an Alaskan snowstorm, strangers Hali and Terry are forced to rely on each other for survival. Due to a freak snowstorm that forces him to land his small Cessna, strangers, Hali and Terry, and a cute but mischievous Samoyed puppy are stranded in the Alaskan bush. From the beginning, she's never known a man so independent and rigid in his need to have things done his way. And he's never known a woman so willing to help, stepping on his pride in such a lovable way that he can't take offense. The frigid temperatures are brutal and when he falls through the ice to save a puppy, the...
Stranded in an Alaskan snowstorm, strangers Hali and Terry are forced to rely on each other for survival. Due to a freak snowstorm that forces him to ...
