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In a wind-scoured refugee camp on the edge of the Jordanian desert, Yasmeen Abadi counts her world in absences—her parents, grandparents, her home. At thirteen, with her seven-year-old brother, Jaafar, she crosses Syria in search of a refugee camp and her only remaining relatives. Arriving near death and without news of her aunt and uncle, their future is uncertain. Until they meet Leah, a young aid worker adrift from her own unfinished past, who makes a home for them.
When armed men arrive in the night and carry Leah and Yasmeen across an unseen border, the fragile order of the camp gives way to a harsher captivity. In the silence between interrogations and long stretches of waiting, they form a quiet, stubborn connection—part refuge, part reckoning.
Their shared existence narrows to small acts: a story remembered, a hand held in the dark, and Leah’s refusal to let them forget who they were before. What unfolds is a struggle for survival, and a fragile, defiant persistence of care in a place designed to extinguish it.
Available November 2026: Paperback or ebook
On the night of April 14 – 15, 1912, the “unsinkable” RMS Titanic struck an iceberg and sank in two hours and forty minutes. She claimed 1,506 lives. And almost 115 years later, she lives on, fuelled by stories of weakened hulls, coal fires, brittle rivets, poor seamanship, and renegade submersible designers.
But woven through the disaster are Canadians. Samuel Cunard, for whom the Titanic was built to complete. Lord William Pirrie, the Chairman of Harland & Wolff, who connived the sale of White Star Line to J.P Morgan. Charles Melville Hays, railway president and visionary of Ottawa’s Château Laurier. Harry Molson, heir to the brewing dynasty. Major Arthur Peuchen, the Toronto yachtsman, and Manitoba-born Albert Dick shunned for their survival. And when the sea surrendered its dead, it was Halifax’s cable ships CS Mackay-Bennett, CS Minia, LS Montmagny, and Newfoundland’s SS Algerine that sailed into the wreck field—recovering 306 bodies and bringing them home to Nova Scotia graves.
From first-class salons to the freezing, starlit sea: Titanic’s Canadian connection—and the theories that refuse to let her rest.
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