Realistic Historical Fiction

A nurse. A wife. A war that will test her soul.

Henrietta “Hettie” Steward is not your ordinary bride-to-be. Feisty, educated, and fiercely ambitious, she dreams of continuing her work as a nurse, but society expects her to abandon her career for marriage.

When the echoes of the Great War thunder across the world, Hettie's dreams collide with...

The Great War tests not only those who fight, but those left behind.

In summer 1914, the Steward family prepares for the joyous union of Hettie Steward and Geoffrey Bartlett, an event that will officially bond together two families that have been interconnected for decades. Little do they know that the ominous clouds of war will soon shatter the...

When the guns fall silent, hearts must learn to heal.

The hopeful cheers of Armistice Day have faded into a quiet, uneasy silence. Nurse Hettie Taylor returns to Canada married to Alfred — a stranger in many ways — and haunted by the memory of her first husband, Geoffrey, whose death she never fully mourned.

Hettie and Alfred return to a world...

One woman’s journey. A family’s beginning. A legacy of strength.

In the harsh and unforgiving landscape of 1829 British North America, Claire Appleton has never ventured far beyond the confines of her hometown. Her life is one of relentless toil and quiet endurance.

Harold, her restless husband, envisions a life of adventure, a chance to escape...

When conscience calls, one woman must answer.

Rose Goodwin, a sharp-witted shopkeeper’s wife with a gift for sweet talking, finds herself thrust into an unexpected mission when she’s given the assignment to nurse Judith, a gravely ill refugee fleeing to Canada in search of liberty.

Initially skeptical and unprepared, Rose must confront her own...

She’s everything a proper woman shouldn’t be — and that’s exactly how she wants to remain.

Lucretia Goodwin is clever, determined, and dangerously outspoken in a world that rewards women for their silence. She’s content pursuing her teaching career, nurturing her independence, and ignoring the whispers that she’s “the unmarriable kind.”

Having...

Three novels. One unforgettable journey through love, loss and courage.

Melina Druga’s Where Poppies Grow brings together three sweeping novels that trace the emotional and human cost of the Great War through the eyes of those who lived it. From the battlefields of Europe to the quiet streets of wartime Canada, Echoes of the Great War Trilogy...

Three generations. Three stories. One unbreakable legacy.

Spanning nearly a century of Canadian history, The Trail Blazers tells the stories of three generations of women whose courage, compassion, and endurance shaped the family at the heart of the Echoes of the Great War Trilogy.

From the rugged wilds of pioneer Ontario to the dawn of a new...