Bøger af Erle Enson

1915. A world in the throes of upheaval and change. Irwin Rawson was raised poor on a homestead outside uptight Enderby, Manitoba. Troubled by an ugly, dark family secret, he finds himself fatherless, then soon loses his mother and his home. Expelled from school, dirt mooning under his fingernails, shoveling coal for pennies, Irwin's future is bleak. Ethel Handley is seventeen, just married, and expecting. It's a bad marriage ending in tragedy before she flees Toronto to train as a teacher. Shedding her past, she arrives in Enderby to begin a quiet, blissfully anonymous new life teaching in a one-room school. As grim deprivation and strict temperance grip the decade from 1915 to 1925, they come of age enduring a hard world threatening to reveal unthinkable truths about each of them - who they are and where they've come from. Irwin and Ethel collide, then find comfort in their shared torment. Their love story is one for the ages, forbidden and sweet, hidden from view. Until that is impossible. Not even love can keep them together. In the agony of their separation, only one thing is certain.... You can't see forever. Even on the prairie.

What is true happiness worth? It might cost Emily Cooper everything that ever mattered. Emily almost has it all. A best friend she loves like a sister. A new baby and the business her father left her - rustic Driftwood Bay Eco-Resort on Vancouver Island's remote and wild Pacific coast. The only piece missing is husband Eddie, who hates the resort business and is gone. Struggling to survive financial collapse, a raging wildfire, Pacific storms and loneliness, Emily finds comfort in the worst possible place - the warm affection of her first love Tim, who dumped her right before university graduation. He's long forgotten and nursing old wounds, but has come to bring new hope to Barkley Sound's endangered sea otters, and maybe Emily and Driftwood Bay as well. When her husband returns, broken and repentant, Emily's heart is torn: will she make her family whole and rekindle a future with Eddie? Or finally allow Tim into her heart, because she's falling for him all over again. Dive into a brisk beach-breeze of a story about friendship and giving lost love a second chance. Every time.