NOVELS

North of Smokey

Award-winning author David Doucette’s haunting novel of Frank Curtis, whose tragic boyhood hunting accident does not stop him from becoming the world champion of a brutal sport. Frank will find that his greatest adversary, however, will be his coming home to Cape Breton.

The Blue Sky of Winter

Town searchers comb a dense snowy woods for young Grace, who entered in the late afternoon following a kitten. A searcher stops, puts a hand out for a single snowflake. The forecasted blizzard has begun.