Finn Hughes knows about secrets.His family is as wealthy as the Rockefellers and as powerful as the Kennedys. He runs the billion-dollar corporation. No one knows that he has a ticking time clock on his ability to lead.Eva Morelli is the oldest daughter. The responsible one. The caring one. The one who doesn't have time for her own interests. Especially not her interest in the charismatic, mysterious Finn Hughes.A fake relationship is the answer to ...

DaredevilsIn the prologue to the Hughes Investigations Series, Caela and Ian discover a pattern.Cases that seem solitary and random, may well not be.Still relatively new at the PI job, Caela takes risks she might later regret.The Devil InsideCaela wasn't a 'nice' girl.As a PI for her father's firm, Caela Hughes had been trained by the best. Now she was the best.The mystery client wanted to know what Mykos Adamos was up to, and Caela w...

An unscrupulous manor lord has reneged on his promise to hand over a priceless ornate cross stolen from the Templars during the Crusades. Furthermore, he has massacred as heretics fourteen members of a religious order. The King sends Hugh Corbett, devoted emissary of King Edward I to Mistleham in his stead..."Another fine historical mystery steeped in medieval atmosphere." - Kirkus Reviews

Synopsis – Episode OneAaden Hughes is a member of Joint Task Force – Two (JTF-2), Canada’s special operations, counter terrorist unit.His 48 hour intelligence assignment becomes mired in the confluence of circumstantial events that buries his otherwise simple task under layers of complexity. As he struggles to uncover the truth of his assignment, he is forced confront the brutal history and current activities born of an increasingly complex struggle, betwee...

As a single father, I'd do anything to make all my daughter's wishes come true. When Taylor's nanny has an accident and she's forced to stay with a neighbor I barely recall, I expect the worst. I don't expect to find her happily playing with our single neighbor and her pets, and certainly didn't expect that neighbor, Maya Hughes, to be so caring—or so beautiful.When Maya offers to look after Taylor until the nanny recovers, I want to say no, but seeing Taylor happy makes me happy. ...

Shiver. Swift whip of wind. / Fangs of the low front / stinging fierce as forest fires. / Frost thickening the stoop.In his debut collection, Short Histories of Light, Aidan Chafe recounts his Catholic upbringing in a household dealing with the common but too often taboo subject of mental illness.In unflinching fashion, Chafe reveals the unintended disasters that follow those who struggle with depression and the frustration of loved ones left to pick up the pieces....

In my palliative months / the cormorant leaves me / at peace, disintegrating / with the exhalation of a BuddhaWithout Beginning or End is Jacqueline Bourque’s final testament to a life well lived, written in the wake of a terminal cancer diagnosis.Deeply inspired by her Acadian upbringing along the ocean shores of New Brunswick, these are poems populated by aerialists, painters, and the spirit of Charles Baudelaire, who connects the poet to “the ligatures of life.”...

It’s been more than four months since young PC Kenny Hughes was run down and killed while trying to arrest a suspect, but his parents, Gavin and Chrissie, are still reeling from the shock. To make things worse, the COVID-19 pandemic has closed down the crown courts and it’s looking as if the trial of Kenny’s killers will be delayed for months.Meanwhile, Gavin has an increasingly difficult job as a police officer with responsibilities for enforcing new social distancing regulations ...

Benjamin Hertwig’s debut collection of poetry*, Slow War,* is at once an account of contemporary warfare and a personal journey of loss and the search for healing. It stands in the tradition of Wilfred Owen’s “Dulce et Decorum Est” and Kevin Powers’s “Letter Composed During a Lull in the Fighting.”A century after the First World War, Hertwig presents both the personal cost of war in poems such as “Somewhere in Flanders/Afghanistan” and “Food Habits of Coyotes, as Determined by Exam...

In the prologue to the Hughes Investigations Series, Caela and Ian discover a pattern.Cases that seem solitary and random, may well not be.Still relatively new at the PI job, Caela takes risks she might later regret.This is the free novella that starts the Hughes Investigations series.

Winner of the Pulitzer and Bancroft prizes in 1952.“[A] dominant figure is bound to be controversial, and a contemporary biography too readily invites hagiography or debunking. Let it be said at once that Merlo J. Pusey wholly escapes both temptations... it is fortunate that Chief Justice Hughes entrusted his papers to so conscientious and responsible a digger into materials as Pusey for his authorized Life... The Life of Hughes has to be woven on the loom of a half century of our ...

Winner of the Pulitzer and Bancroft prizes in 1952.“[A] dominant figure is bound to be controversial, and a contemporary biography too readily invites hagiography or debunking. Let it be said at once that Merlo J. Pusey wholly escapes both temptations... it is fortunate that Chief Justice Hughes entrusted his papers to so conscientious and responsible a digger into materials as Pusey for his authorized Life... The Life of Hughes has to be woven on the loom of a half century of our ...