Nova Swoons 2026 – A Romance Anthology about Nova Scotians, by Nova Scotians

I am so honored and excited to announce that my paperback copy of Nova Swoons 2026 – an anthology by Nova Scotia romance authors about Nova Scotians – arrived today.

It has 13 Nova Scotian romance authors featured, including myself, and my friend Cathryn Fox, who is a best selling romance author known for her sports romances.

The excerpt from Stricken (Feathered Tartan 1) is on Page 6, and is two pages long. It’s an interaction between Marti and Ewan not long before their reconciliation, and shows the sexual tension building between them, and their bond growing again.

Yours truly holding a copy of Nova Swoons.

If you want an ebook copy of Nova Swoons 2026, you can get it for free here: https://writers.ns.ca/product/nova-swoons-2026/

Contributors:

V.J. Allison

Tina Capalbo

Grace Costa

Margaret Hastings-James

Deanna Foster

Cathryn Fox

Sophia Lindfield

Lex Lynn

Erin MacKinnon

Kaarina Mikalson

Heidi Tattrie

Christina Isabel Tellez

Chris Turner

If you live in Nova Scotia, you can get a paperback copy for the price of shipping.

If you want to purchase a copy of Stricken (Feathered Tartan 1), you can find it at your favorite store via Books2Read: https://books2read.com/b/3n8Qr9

Many thanks to Andy Verboom, the Writers’ Federation of Nova Scotia (WFNS), Association of Romance Writers of Atlantic Canada for their hard work and creating this amazing anthology, and Tina at Extasy Books for allowing me to submit an excerpt from Stricken in the debut edition of Nova Swoons.

Set in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Stricken is the second chance romance for Ewan Campbell and Marti Marlowe.

Cover art by Syneca Featherstone.

Stricken (Feathered Tartan 1)

Love deserves a second chance.

Ewan Campbell once thought he had it all – he was a rising star in the real estate field, popular with his peers, and engaged to his employer’s cousin, the shy and quiet little Marti Marlowe.

A heartbeat later, he was alone—shattered, confused and suicidal. Why had Marti walked away from him?

Years later, in another place and a new chapter of Ewan's life, fate brings them face to face again.

They start building a friendship, but Ewan wants more. He wants Marti as his wife, while she seems to prefer their current status as friends.

Can he convince her that taking another chance at their failed future will be the start of the best part of their lives?

Have an amazing weekend everyone! 

I leave you with another love song… “After All” by Cher and Peter Cetera. It reminds me a lot of Ewan and Marti, and how they found their way back to each other after so long being apart. Enjoy!