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PASSUP POINT
by Coralie Hughes Jensen

Jonah Devlin arrives in an isolated fishing village in Labrador to serve as pastor of a community church that the Anglicans had abandoned years earlier. He meets Gabrielle Pye, a young waitress struggling to raise her two brothers in the depressed economy of maritime Canada. When the Trans Labrador Highway opens the tiny town to the outside world, Gabrielle’s crime of forgery, committed when she was just thirteen, makes her a target of the Canadian Police.

But that is not all…

Just as Devlin attempts to help her, reports of his troubled past reach Passup. Newspaper stories allege that as Catholic priest in the States he had committed unspeakable crimes, forcing him to defend his position to his new community. While Devlin grapples to make sense of Catholic doctrine and endeavors to apply it to his new congregation, the often quirky citizens of Passup and the surrounding villages educate him on the real purpose of faith.

Lety's Gift
by Coralie Hughes Jensen

Sophie Hawkins has a unique gift.

Born illegitimately in a poor fishing village in the 1950s, she is now set to be consecrated the first woman Anglican bishop in Newfoundland's Eastern Diocese. Sophie's mother, Lety, died when Sophie was too young to remember her. As a result, the little girl was left to be raised by a cruel grandmother, an abusive minister, and the sadistic overseers of a prison-like orphanage. Under the pressures of a difficult adolescence, her psychic talents emerge not as a blessing, but a curse that leads to a breakdown.

Sophie's survival depends on learning to control her abilities and to confront other traumatic events from her childhood. She turns to psychiatrist Griffon Fairbourne who helps her make sense of her powers and inspires her to enter the priesthood. Along with classmate Noah Lodge, Sophie is sent to isolated western Newfoundland as a hospital chaplain, where her gift reemerges when she senses imminent danger posed by recent activity on the hospital's fourth floor that decades earlier housed an insane asylum.

Lety's Gift is a mystery, a love story, and above all a tale of triumph.