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Seventeen year old ROB MACLEAN lives on a farm on the Ottawa River in the 1830's. He dreams of going west with JUDITH MORGAN, daughter of local timber baron,SAM MORGAN. Their fathers are enemies.
The violence of Bytown, the Shiner gang, BIG JOE MUFFERAW’s epic bareknuckle match with the Royal Navy champion and Colonel JOHN BY's Rideau Canal project background the young people's struggle.
Bytown by Steve Wheeler
Published by smashwords.com
http://www.smashwords.com/books/view/144776 | |  | | February 3
World War 1 and women's suffrage make a volatile mix.
February 3 is the story of Laure and Jode, an unlikely couple of teenagers thrown together by forces and events much bigger than they realize.
Jode is third generation Ottawa Valley from a working family, emulating and admiring his older brother, Lionel, looking forward to turning 18 in the next year when he will be old enough to enlist.
Laure's life, in alternate chapters, proceeds as her mother, Marie, escapes her recently murdered husband's family to Antwerp and, by good fortune, to the Pankhursts in London.
There she grows up among the fights and triumphs of Emily and her daug | |  | | LOOSE MOVEMENT Part 1
Travel writing, reviews and short fiction.
LOOSE MOVEMENT Part 1 has been published at smashwords.com
smashwords.com/books/view/227043
It can be read or downloaded for free there. | |  | | Loose Movement Part 2
A collection of short pieces. Travel, reviews and fictional short stories.
Loose Movement Part 2 documents Steve Wheeler’s living and travelling around Europe, Scotland and the North Sea.
Like Part 1, Loose Movement Part 2 includes fictional short stories, most of which have been published on the internet, as well as music and film reviews.
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An idyllic setting hides the turmoil on the Ottawa River
When Phil Reilly, a landscaper in rural Ottawa, discovers a corpse, he needs the help of some neighbours, a billionaire and an old hippie, both marijuana enthusiasts, as Chinese triads, police and government intelligence agencies discourage further investigation.
His wife, Nora, addicted to bingo and about to retire from a longtime government job. is a witness to Phil’s stubborn inquiries.
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When the CIA wants to build a secret air strip in bear country near Ottawa, clandestine meetings, unwanted publicity and a diamond heist complicate matters.
When the CIA wants to build a secret air strip in bear country north of Ottawa, the deal is arranged in a van on the the Rideau Canal during Winterlude, Ottawa’s famous winter festival..
George Gilroy, a successful lobbyist, has won the job of negotiating the deal. George has a family in Ottawa and another on a farm outside the city.
The land the CIA has chosen is in the middle of The Wilds, a thousand acres of bush owned by the Taylor brothers, outfitters and hunters. They have travelled to Ottawa to protest the banning of the Spring bear hunt and visit some strip joints.
Part of | |  | | VAN IN LOVE
VAN IN LOVE is a humourous look at relationships with a blackmail plot thrown in.
Sandwiched between his life in the Highlands in the first and last chapters, Van’s history as a contemporary drummer, a father and a helpless ladie’s man is traced through a succession of relationships with women in Ottawa and Vancouver.
He escapes to Scotland with a woman who is older and wiser than he.
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