Minique

Minique

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Marilyn Stanley
, Lara Maynard
, Chantal Comeau
, Margo Beredjiklian
, Penny Gilman
, Irenee R Anderson
, Jude Castillo
, Liz Moreau
, Linda Leitch
, Ariane Béland
, Sarah Schwartz
, Jessica Trento
, Andrea Pole
, Cassandra Schiemann
, Shannon Holmes
, Shelley Gibbs
, LJ Law
, Deb Philippon
, Huguette Lemieux
, Susan Jang
, Rose Hately
, Mathew Webb
, Deana Bueley
, Barry Kazimer
, Natasa Ilic
, Vanessa Charbonneau-Dinelle
, Andy Holmes
, Davina Liew
, Debbie Rodgers
, Jennifer Beyak
, Melissa Kohlman
, Tyler Webb
, Naomi MacKinnon
, Ed Gilman
, Sandra Furlotte
, Chelsey Boley
, PETER TASSIOPOULOS
, Debra Fisher
, Andrea Gillespie
, Holly Elisabeth
, Heather Ritz
, Janet Meisner
, Navkomal Toor
, Susan Baues
, finn mulryan
, Marin Beck
, zelda dwyer
, Tina May
, Randi Ann Doll
, Karen Kendrick
, Becky Bridger
, Lauren Seal
, Brenda Vaccarello
, Cynthia Heinrichs
, Darlene Foster
, robin Harrison
, Margaret Jones
, Karen Nordrum
, S. A. M. McCue
, C. Ray
, Ken Gilmour
, joy mills
, Marilyn Sorensen
, Charles Leblanc
, Olivia Pellegrino
, Paula Adam
, Patricia Johnson
, Maria Mclean
, Ariel Gordon
, Susan Terendy
, Emily Peck
, Robert Hykawy
, Leona Burlew
, Ellen Clarke
, Linda Ham
, Noelle Walsh
, maria blanco
, Alex Henderson
, Vicki Bedford
, Hoda Montazeri
, Mary Lester

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editor@49thShelf.com

19/06/2022

02/07/2022

Yes

joy mills
, Susan Baues
, Alex Henderson

Montréal, 1680s: Minique has a secret she can’t ever tell. She knows there are horrific consequences for girls and women who do not conform. She saw it with her own eyes when Anne, the aubergiste, was viciously marched through town and charged with crimes she didn’t commit. Besides, Minique has never had family members to tell. She remembers little of her mother, a fille du roi, who arrived in Montréal on a ship; she rarely sees her father, a coureur des bois who is often away; and she barely speaks with her Tante Marie, a stern, hard woman.
 
Years later, after a string of tragedies, Minique has abandoned the hostility of the town and its people. She has built a home for herself in the woods, outside the boundary of Montréal. But her solitary existence is interrupted when she learns that Antoine de Cadillac, an ambitious Frenchman with a violent past, is after a monopoly of the fur trade in New France. Though initially repulsed by his greed, Minique is powerfully drawn to him. Soon, their paths start to cross in unpredictable ways as Cadillac’s determination to learn more about the “witch in the wood” intensifies. They forge a reckless, passionate connection with an ever-shifting dynamic that Minique welcomes until she realizes that everything—down to the core of who she is and the secret she carries—is at stake.
 
By turns fierce, gripping, poignant, and menacing, Minique is historical fiction with a contemporary twist. Here is a one-of-a-kind story about a woman’s reckoning with her own power and what she will do to protect it.