This the second book in the series published by Harlequin. I am delighted with their covers. Since I have no control over what they decide to use, I’m pleased they hired an artist to come up with such an appealing cover. There’s a certain amount of relief in my pleasure as I can imagine some mundane or even ugly covers. This, I like.

January deposited a great deal of snow in my yard. My neighbours took turns to shovel out my driveway. On the one hand, it was fun to chat over shovelfuls of snow. On the other, that stuff is cold, slippery and annoying. We are back to rain now and I’m hoping that’s all we’ll get.

Always Pack a Candle: A Nurse in the Cariboo-Chilcotin is still on the BC Bestsellers list. It also made the top twenty for the year which is a considerable feat since it was released the middle of June. My friends have been calling to remind me of other incidents that happened in those days, so I’ve been enjoying that. The Vancouver Sun did a review. Book review: A B.C. Interior nurse’s year of living dangerously | Vancouver Sun (Jan 21,22) It’s an enthusiastic one.

I am rewriting Overkill in Kent and doing as much research as possible on line but it’s no substitute for actually walkig the streets of the cities and listening to the people who live there. Like everyone else, I’d like to get back to my activities pre-Covid when I travelled to gather information and to understand different cultures.

May 2022 be better for us all.