J.D. Rule

• Jan-2013
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On the rebound from a failed love affair, Cecelia meets Matt, Acadian son of a remote land where fog banks materialize without warning, magic lamps are real, spirits play chess with mortals, and family ties span generations. During her brief vacation...

• Jun-2013
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Her awful secret is safe with her devoted brother, although her best friend suspects all is not as it seems. Each tries to protect her from the consequences of her own impulses, but in the final crush they both fail. Delsey Roberts, beautiful and hea...

• Jul-2013
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Her first husband, the one she now sorely regrets having abandoned, is safely in the arms of another woman. On the rebound from the disaster of her second marriage, beautiful, talented, and haunted Delsey Walker decides that love is not for her. That...

• Sep-2013
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Set in the fogs of Down East Maine, Monument Lot tells the story of the passionate and beautiful Alice Wyman. Blocked from the musical career she aches to achieve, she is held back by her own deep-seated fear of surrendering her independence. Even wo...

• Jan-2014
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Letting go is the hardest part of moving on. In the world of business, her touch is like magic, but that’s as far as it goes. She feels trapped by her own history and yearns for what once was, but is afraid to confront what might be. Set in the mad...

• Nov-2014
• / General Fiction
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I was not expecting anybody that evening, so to find MaryEllen pounding on my door was a huge surprise. She did not look happy. “Samantha told me what you’ve been writing.” She elbowed me aside, threw her coat off, dropped down on my couch, and...

• Nov-2016
• / Literary
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Five stories, five women, five choices fraught with hidden implication that alter the arc of history, and no time to ponder alternatives. Some are royalty, born to make decisions, while others have destiny thrust upon them....

• Mar-2017
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Set both in the American Civil War and in Lubec, Maine, the novel Cold Harbor tells of fierce and lasting loyalties, tender young love, and the history of a region that gave much. Not a fairy tale, the story includes eyewitness accounts of the brutal...

• Dec-2019
• / Literary
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High-school lovers Henry and Sarah are sure they will follow in the time-honored footsteps of others in their Downeast community: he will work as a sternman and maybe someday own his own fishing boat and she will raise the family. When they head ...

• Jun-2023
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Born and raised on a lonely island off the coast of Maine, Jacob Baxter's life was planned and predictable. So was that of his twin brother, Isaac. They would become fishermen, following the footsteps of the four generations that went before them. Fo...