Maggie Blackbird

She went back in time to rescue him. She never counted on falling in love... Alma Whitecrow prefers hunting and fishing with men, not romancing them. But hearing about the roguishly handsome coureur de bois, who saved her sister from the Dakota, haunts her thoughts and dreams. Well-versed in surviving the wilds, Alma resolves to travel to the mid-eighteenth century, as her sister once did, to save the man from impending death. Charlot Baudelaire thumbs his nose at society's expectations, content living as a loner, trading with people he calls the Saulters. If he needs a woman for the night, there is always a willing maiden. What he doesn't expect is a spunky and stubborn female warrior to challenge him. Charlot is not the man Alma dreamed about, and Alma is not the kind of woman Charlot pursues. But the longer they are together, the more drawn to each other they become, until Alma faces the biggest decision of her life. Stay with a man who may never reciprocate her love, or return to her Ojibway home and bland existence.

His community or his enemy. He can't have both.Deep in the badlands, Hunter patrols the area as the war chief for his Lakota community. His latest mission is to hunt down a marauder who robbed his neighbors of their precious goods. He'll act as this man's judge, jury, and executioner.Having lost everything at his former Ojibway encampment, Chassis is far from home. He wanders the badlands, a grim reaper bringing death to those who possess what he needs to survive. But there is one man courageous enough to challenge him.When the duo faces off, neither expects the sizzling chemistry to erupt between them, nor for their duel to touch what both have denied themselves. Now they must choose to either remain together and sacrifice their personal beliefs, or part ways, losing what they've spent their lives searching for-love.Warning: Dubious consent and violence.

An ex-cop returning to face his horrendous past, the woman who won't forgive him, and the family who'll never let him forget that he killed their son.First Nations Constable Jordan Chartrand's guilt can't handle the accusing stares from the family left to mourn their son after that horrible night... so he flees from his Ojibway community and the woman he loves. Two years later, his mother's cancer diagnosis forces him to return to help her.Devoted schoolteacher Ellie Quill wants nothing to do with Jordan after he bolted to the city and left her behind. Her life goals are set. As for her secret, she'll keep that to herself, even if Jordan's begging to know the truth about her child.When the two are compelled to work on a community project to address the rampant drug problem, their forced proximity slowly melts Ellie's icy walls. But no matter how much her heart desires to give Jordan the second chance he's begging for, she refuses to because providing a life for her son in the tradition of the Ojibway culture is her top priority now, not moving to the city where Jordan continues to hide.

He rejected love the first time. Now he wants a second chance.After having his love tossed back in his face, Hudson Suggashie has eliminated the word trust from his dictionary. Since his return to his Ojibway community, his suspicions are running high, all because one man is hinting at a second chance-the too-gorgeous and sexy ball-crusher who turned Hudson's world to black fifteen years ago.Stephen Brandt knows he screwed up big time when he rejected Hudson's love, and he'll do anything to win him back, even if it means being a mere bed buddy to the man whose love he aches to reclaim.The longer the former best friends engage in their no-strings affair, they want something more-what they lost as teenagers. But Hudson isn't about to open his heart again, leaving a desperate Stephen searching for a way to earn back the trust he broke, or for the second time, they'll lose the greatest love either has ever experienced.

Her biggest dream's offered on a platter, but the clincher is, she has to marry a perfect stranger.When her employer offers the no-nonsense Shannon Nadjiwon the position of chauffeuring S amus Daugherty, she jumps at the chance. To work for one of Toronto's most powerful families means she can make her biggest dream of owning a fleet of limos come true, something her female relations tooling away at her Ojibway community want badly for her, and she won't let them down.His reckless need for speed cost S amus Daugherty his license. If he doesn't marry, as demanded by his overbearing father, he will lose not only his lucrative job with the family business-the only positive aspect in S amus' gilded cage life-but everything Daugherty.The unpretentious and gorgeous Shannon will make the perfect bride, and S amus is ready to strike a deal with her, one that will ensure he keeps everything he holds dear if she puts a wedding ring on her finger. However, they face three big obstacles: His family, her family, and a marriage neither truly wants, leaving both wondering if the sizzling sexual chemistry and cozy rapport they share is enough to create a happily ever after.

She's always been obsessed with her ancestors, and now he's offering her a chance to live with them... forever.Second-year university student Edie Whitecrow gobbles up each course on Indigenous studies. If only she could experience the lives of her Anishinaabe ancestors instead of reading about them. On her way to a Halloween party decked out as a historical Ojibway maiden, she spies a corn maze in a spot known to be barren.A scarecrow figure beckons Edie to enter with the enticing offer of making her biggest wish come true. She jumps at the chance and finds herself in the past, face to face with the man who haunts her dreams-the handsome brave Thunder Bear. He claims he's spent twelve years waiting for Gitche Manidoo to send her to him.Life in the eighteenth century isn't what Edie romanticized about, though. When her conscience is tested, she must choose between the modern day or the world of her descendants-where the man she was born for resides.

After receiving his grade twelve diploma and marking his eighteenth birthday, Ren Oshawee cannot fight the temptation seventeen-year-old high school junior Billy Redsky blatantly offers now that what they share has become taboo.When their secret romance is blown into the open, Billy's foster parents send Ren to Toronto to complete the last of his schooling under the supervision of a family friend, leaving Billy behind at their Ojibway community.Now Billy and Ren must make the biggest decision of their lives-fight for the true love they know they'll never find with anyone else or go their separate ways.

Once a thief, always a thief, and if he can't win the heart of the boy he loves, he'll steal it.Billy Redsky's made one of his biggest dreams come true, but there's a problem. Even though the boy he loves is mere footsteps across the hall from his bedroom, they might as well live a country apart because claiming Ren Oshawee's heart is more difficult than Billy anticipates.Much to Billy's disgust, Ren can't accept his true self, so he's incapable of loving someone else. And all he cares about is living a life the chief and his wife foresee for their youngest son.If Billy is to finally have what he truly desires, he must stop Ren from running away from who he really is and face the man in the mirror, or what they share will never blossom into true love.

Billy Redsky, a rebellious punk who loves art and nature, is saddled with a welfare-leeching, alcoholic mother and criminal older brother who are the joke of their Ojibway community. Sick and tired of being perceived as a loser, Billy deals drugs for his older brother to earn quick money. He hopes if he buys a dirt bike, he'll finally impress the chief's popular and aloof son, Ren Oshawee.When the two are forced to serve detention together, a friendship begins to bloom, but much to Billy's frustration, Ren keeps putting him on ice. To make his biggest dream come true if he finally wants to call Ren his own, Billy must make a huge decision that could cost him everything.

Bridget Matawapit is an Indigenous activist, daughter of a Catholic deacon, and foster mother to Kyle, the son of an Ojibway father-the ex-fianc she kicked to the curb after he chose alcohol over her love. With Adam out on parole and back in Thunder Bay, she is determined to stop him from obtaining custody of Kyle.Adam Guimond is a recovering alcoholic and ex-gangbanger newly paroled. Through counseling, reconnecting with his Ojibway culture and twelve-step meetings while in prison, Adam now understands he's worthy of the love that frightened him enough to pick up the bottle he'd previously corked. He can't escape the damage he caused so many others, but he longs to rise like a true warrior in the pursuit of forgiveness and a second chance. There's nothing he isn't willing to do to win back his son-and Bridget.When an old cell mate's daughter dies under mysterious circumstances in foster care, Adam begs Bridget to help him uncover the truth. Bound to the plight of the Indigenous children in care, Bridget agrees. But putting herself in contact with Adam threatens to resurrect her long-buried feelings for him, and even worse, she risks losing care of Kyle, by falling for a man who might destroy her faith in love completely this time.