With the pacific ocean surging toward its shore and rugged mountain peaks guarding its boundaries, Kittworth is a town of adventure and tourism. Visitors travel from all over to explore its beautiful–and dangerous–landscape, coming and going whenever they please. Only Kittworth’s lifelong residents live with the constant threat of never moving beyond its borders–especially Amelia Garrison…
For seventeen years, Alex Podolski has been trapped on Woolf Island, a beautiful but boring chunk of land on the St. Lawrence River. She spent summer waiting on preppy old folks at the mainland’s boat club, trying to wish away her puny existence. Now, senior year has just begun and all Alex wants is to graduate unharmed and uninvolved…
Daydreamer John Luke Poet has just graduated from high school two years early. Instead of planning his next academic achievement, all he wants is to explore the waterways of the St. Lawrence River on his dad’s new catamaran sailboat. His older brother, Nate and his amateur folk-rock band dream of more…
My name is Emily Grice. I was born in Kingston, Ontario. I grew up in the countryside of Frontenac and Hastings Counties. Both sides of my family have lived in this part of North America for over 150 years. They were courageous Irishmen forced to flee from famine, Germans seeking stability after powerful reformation, and English men and women searching for prosperity and religious freedom. Farmers and labourers, soldiers, servants and ministers. Pioneers whose roots have never been pulled up. Somehow their stories find roads into my stories, the ones I live and the ones I write. There are stories everywhere, stories that need to be told now. And I, for one, am up for the job.