Bread and Roses

As the owner of a bustling village confectionery, strong and independent Thalia Ward lives her life according to her own desires. Orphaned as a young woman, Thalia realized her dreams of becoming a shop owner by her own hard work and determination. Along with her close friends, Thalia faces down obstacles with grace, until an entitled aristocrat threatens everything she has built. An attraction that cannot be ignored. Campbell Marlow had a harrowing childhood, the kind that leaves no room for dreams of love and happiness. His sole ambition is to find an aristocratic bride and ascend to the top of society, where nothing can stand in his way. Far above the muck of his birth. He never meant to fall in love. After a chance meeting at a charity call brings them together, Thalia and Cam cannot ignore the growing connection they share. But danger lurks around dark corners. Will Cam set aside his goal to save the woman he couldn't help but fall for? Can love overcome even the most obsessive aspirations?

A sweeping tale of life in Sault Ste. Marie from the 1930s through the Second World War. Clara Durling and her teenage daughter, Ivy, move to Sault Ste. Marie in 1932, where Clara is starting a job as head nurse at the local residential school. As Clara adjusts to life in the Soo, she discovers the town is a many-layered society. Clara works with Indigenous children who have been ripped from their communities and now live frightening, lonely lives in a crumbling building. While Clara struggles to deal with the despair at the school, Ivy makes a friend from the working-class Italian community and has a brush with the bootlegging underworld. After high school, Ivy heads to nursing school in Montreal but finds society's expectations for young women do not foster their self-reliance. As Ivy struggles with sexism and societal norms, she and Clara seek to bring humanity to those living at the margins of society.

She wasn't seeking marriage... Philomena Harvey-Morton was content with her tidy life, far removed from the glittering world of England's wealthy elite. Being considered a plain country spinster had its perks, like avoiding objectionable social events. But when her father drags her to an estate party attended by members of the ton, Mena is forced to question what she really wants-and increasingly that would be to kiss a wickedly handsome duke. He wasn't hunting a bride... Garrett Sumner, the notorious Duke of Bedford, was used to living fast and free, and entirely determined not to settle down. Of course, his esteemed sister would say he drank too much liquor and was utterly without direction. That is, until his close friend suddenly fell in love, leaving Garrett stuck hosting a weekend party under the guise of finding a bride-something he has absolutely no intention of doing so. Passion brings them together... Unexpectedly, attraction flares, though they try to deny the smoldering longing threatening to ignite between them. As Mena and Garrett open up to each other, they must face their fears in order to gain the ultimate prize-love.