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I'm a teacher, an amateur musician and, for over thirty years, a writer. I fell in love with words at a very early age and the affair has been life-long. I write historical romance, drawing on my love of the Westerns I grew up with and on stories of life in rural Nova Scotia in earlier times, passed down by my parents and grandparents. When I'm not writing, I garden, play guitar, spend time with my DH and cater to the whims of our two spoiled Nova Scotia Duck Tolling Retrievers.




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Published on December 13, 2011 09:37 • 5 views
Average rating: 4.26 · 27 ratings · 12 reviews · 3 distinct works
McShannon's Chance (Wallace...
4.33 of 5 stars 4.33 avg rating — 15 ratings — published 2009 — 4 editions
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McShannon's Chance Excerpt (Romance)
1 chapters   —   updated Dec 19, 2009 02:16pm
Description: A snippet from my debut historical Western romance, McShannon's Chance, available from Bluewood Publishing: http://www.bluewoodpublishing.com

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Shattered by Jennie Marsland
" Shattered - Embittered and wounded both physically and emotionally by his stint in the army during the Great War, Liam Cochrane returns to Halifax in 1917 as a near-cripple and feeling like a misfit in civilian society. The demons that haunt him r... "
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" Shattered is a beautiful historical romance set around the Halifax explosion in 1917. It's a smooth read with identifiable characters all struggling with everyday issues and relationships. Yet all the while you're reading about budding romances an... "
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Beth Hi Jennie,
Thanks for befriending this mystery author on Goodreads! I hope you'll put my books, A Real Basket Case and To Hell in a Handbasket, on your to-read list if you haven't read them already. If you'd like to enter a contest for a free copy of To Hell in a Handbasket, sign up for my email newsletter at: http://bethgroundwater.com/ .
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