Lea Tassie

In this, the first of the Adriana Island series, city slickers Holly and Ben buy a five-acre farm on Adriana Island. They adopt George the Magnificent, a tabby-Siamese of royal status and immediately become his slaves. Enjoy their adventures with stray animals, invading guests and renovation of dilapidated buildings.

In the early 1940s, on a northern Canadian homestead, Callie grows up fast. Her innocence, fostered by isolation and her mother's determination to force Callie into the outdated pattern of Lillian's own pre-war youth, is the catalyst of a family feud that tests all Callie's growing strength as she struggles for the freedom to be herself.

An expert photographer, Zanni is a creator and manipulator of images. In her career, she seeks life's truths. But in her personal life, she blindly makes assumptions about who she is and what she wants. Her desperate quest to fit into society leaves an agonized wake of broken marriages, frustrated love affairs, guilt and confusion. Will she find...