The Pact

Expected Release: Late 2026 or early 2027

The Pact is built around the plight of British Home Children sent to Canada at the turn of the last century. To clear England of “undesirables,” home children were exported to Canada as servants and farm hands. They were often dismissed as “waifs and strays,” “Street Arabs,” with “tainted blood.” One was my grandmother. That’s what inspired me to write this story.

There are three main characters in the novel: a brother and sister from a “fallen family” who were separated in Canada and a girl from Whitechapel, the worse slum in London. Abuse, murder, and a disastrous hotel fire fill out the story.