The Apprenticeship of Molly Chant
Book 1 in the Silver Cape Cove Series
Hanging for witchcraft has been outlawed in Ireland for centuries…
Sixteen-year-old Molly Chant faces the noose, a punishment unheard of in 1869. Her one chance for escape is to follow her friend, Mick, to a ship ready to sail to the desolate island of Newfoundland. But, crossing the vast, angry ocean to the colonies could be a new kind of death sentence.
Her only hope for redemption is the tiny out-port of Silver Cape Cove, where she struggles for a balance between her healing powers and the superstitious ignorance she encounters there. Will she find a new family and acceptance or become the pariah everyone believes her to be?
Charmed. That’s how I felt after getting to know Molly Chant. A beautiful read allowing me to be transported deep into the heart of the superstitions of Ireland and Newfoundland and how one woman’s journey is changed because of them.
~ RoseAnn Marchitto, Barrie Writers’ Club, President
“Power? We all got power. It comes from the earth and it comes from within.”
The Apprenticeship of Molly Chant
The Healer’s Journey
Book 2 in the Silver Cape Cove Series
Touched by the local witch, Thomas is cursed and becomes an outcast until a family secret is revealed…
When Thomas Morley, a young Newfoundland fisherman, is rescued from death by the local witch, he discovers he has the ability to cure sickness and charm blood. A gift, he is told, until seizures and blackouts have him glancing into the future, a place that frightens and confuses him. With folk lore and superstition roiling his world, he knows he’s cursed.
WWI calls Thomas to Europe, and his dreams of fishing the waters around Cape Bonavista are wrecked. On his return from the war, all that he yearned to come home to is gone. As he struggles to conquer ‘shell shock’ and fights to gain back the life he once had, his world becomes a desolate place. Will the revelation of a closely guarded family secret rescue him from this misery or will it bring about his final demise?
“Ripe with the folklore and tradition of Newfoundland, the story is told in a series of unfolding vignettes that typify Thomas’s ongoing struggles to fit into a society that, at bottom, is deathly afraid of him.”
JoAnne Soper-Cook, Author
“A strong presence made him tingle. The quiet grew. A final whisper came through the darkness. ‘Molly Chant is here.’”
The Healer’s Journey
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According to Daniel
Book 3 in the Silver Cape Cove Series
Newfoundland 1933
In the haze and confusion after an epileptic seizure, Daniel Morley, a young fisherman, witnesses the body of a girl tossed into a make-shift casket… by her father. Amidst the fading light of day, the man secrets her away.
In the stark morning glare, Daniel raises the alarm, but finds no evidence of a box or a corpse. The girl’s father has a valid reason for her absence, leaving the community questioning Daniel’s sanity.
Can Daniel possibly bring a killer to justice and settle his own mind? Or, will he live out his life condemned a madman in the only place he’s ever called home?
The riveting final chapter in the Silver Cape Cove trilogy about the search for truth and justice in the shadow of a mental breakdown.
“This is the best kind of historical novel. It delivered an immersive experience of Newfoundland in the early twentieth century and the characters and strength required of its people. The story is raw and compelling and I was sorry for it to end.”
Colleen Winter, Author
“Fear and dread pulsed through me in case I couldn’t put my knife tip into the throat of a bedlamer seal, wait for the blood to run hot over my hand.”
According To Daniel
J. Winsor, Author 