UNIQUE, FRESH, ORIGINAL

love, war, and the passing of an age

The Southeastern end of Lake Ontario - 1812

When the aftermath of a great storm brings Jake Eastland’s derelict father home after an absence of fourteen years, Jake is unable to conceal his contempt. Fortunate to have been taken in and raised by the Widow Vincent, Jake rejects his father’s overture and sends the man away.

But after all this time, his father hasn’t come home to give up easily. The next morning, he’s back - rehabilitated - at least that’s what he claims. “The land at the Little Salmon was ours,” he says, “until they wrote a paper and took it away. Help me find the wreck of the Ontare and we’ll use the gold to buy it all back.”

Despite deep misgivings, Jake is forced to consider the offer. The Widow Vincent is recently dead and the vultures are closing in on her land. But does the fortune really exist, or is it all more of his father’s drunken mumblings?

So begins The Wind from Entouhonoron, an adventure set on Lake Ontario during the War of 1812.

Jake is not the only one whose future is at stake. For as long as can be remembered, the Entouhonorons have summered at the mouth of the Little Salmon. But now, unless Jake is able to prevent what seems inevitable, a time-honored way of life will be gone forever. The summer winds will still cool the shore, but the deeper truths of an ages-old culture will have been cast aside in favor of the shortsighted onrush of advancing civilization.

Edgerton Smythe - knows how valuable the land will be. Executor of the Widow Vincent’s estate, he’ll do whatever it takes to make her land the keystone of a personal empire.

Anne Dubois - Intrepid, beautiful, and unscrupulous, she’s come to America to search for the lost son of Marie Antoinette and Louis XVI. Men fall in love with her. Why should Jake be any different?

Caleb King - River-pirate brother of the widow Vincent and apparent heir to her lands, Caleb has dreams of his own. In Jake, he sees the son and partner he never had.

Nowakhaskwahrah – Jake’s mentor and native leader. He says, "There are only strong men, weak men, and the earth."

Maralah – Half sister to Nowakhaskwahrah – Once, she and Jake were playmates and the best of friends. But for Jake, strength does not come without cost. Will Maralah still care for him after he’s made himself hard enough to take the land for himself?

Set against a backdrop of the War of 1812, The Wind From Entouhonoron is a sweeping saga of love, war, and the passing of an age that brings to vivid life the time, its people and places, and especially the magnificence of the lake Samuel de Champlain first knew in the year 1620 as Entouhonoron. It’s a story that’s waited centuries to be told and one that no lover of historical fiction will be able to forget.

~~~ PRAISE~~~