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When his granddaughter, Lauren, moves home to Silver Birch Bay for the summer, Albert enlists her help to find his long-lost love, a runaway from an Indian residential school. Haunted by the past, she risks her life to expose the shocking secrets that threaten to tear her family apart.

Mystery,Romance,Drama,Family,Suspense/Thriller,Historical Fiction

Moving back and forth between the present day and the sixties era, Moonshadow focuses on forbidden love in the face of clashing cultures. Desperate to right a wrong before he dies, an ailing grandfather enlists his granddaughter’s help to find a Mohawk girl he has never forgotten.

Prince Edward County in Eastern Ontario

Yes

Internal Journey/Rebirth,Quest,Other

Meaningful Message,Philosophical Questions,Twist,Other

Sexual Abuse, Language/Profanity,Extreme Violence

Name: Lauren Prescott

Age: 22

Gender: Female

Role: Protagonist

Key Traits: Empathetic,Engaging,Aspiring,Faithful,Charming,Complex,Confident,Decisive,Secretive,Educated,Strong Moral Code

Name: Albert Cowden

Age: 74

Gender: Male

Role: Protagonist

Key Traits: Decisive,Sarcastic,Skillful,Outspoken,Blunt,Masculine,Empathetic,Aggressive,Educated,Honorable,Secretive,Lone Wolf

Name: Charlie Cowden

Age: 46

Gender: Male

Role: antagonist

Key Traits: Badass,Aggressive,Charming,Complex,Masculine,Blunt,Sarcastic,Confident,Funny,Educated,Underdog,Outspoken,Visionary,Secretive,Unapologetic

Name: Jean Cowden

Age: 73

Gender: Female

Role: emotional

Key Traits: Charming,Clumsy,Criminal,Faithful,Obedient,Modest,Romantic,Naive,Insecure,Desperate,Educated,Skillful,Secretive,Manipulative

Joy Lynn Goddard teamed up with her husband, Daniel Pike, to write contemporary adult fiction. Both their novels, Moonshadow and The Keepers, have global appeal and won Canada Book Awards. Besides novels, they wrote Buyers, Liars, Sellers and Yellers, a collection of humorous short stories about the real estate industry. Although she is well-known for her young adult and junior fiction—starting with the award-winning Daredevils and including Hello, my name is Emily, Charlie’s Song, Jazz, When Pigs Fly, and Mrs. Maloney’s Garden—her adult novels are attracting wide-ranging attention because they crisscross romance, mystery, and suspense genres. Joy and Dan divide their time between Guelph and Belleville, Ontario, where they spend time with family when not working on another book.

Age: 35-54,55+

Target Gender: Universal,Female Leaning

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Status: Yes: self-published

Publisher: Joy Lynn Goddard

Year Published: 2019

Yes

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