In the summer of 1969 Anne Dunlop leaves her job teaching high school and the consequences of a broken romance behind her in Toronto and heads back to Halifax to embrace the comfort of home and family. By chance she lands a job at an inner city employment office. Her first clients are dayworkers, many of whom are still adjusting to the uneasy resettlement of their entire community to the neighbourhood due north of Citadel Hill. Anne, too, faces her own adjustments. Her widowed father has a new love in his life. And there is Serge, a charming military man who, unlike her, has a clear future ahead of him. But Anne’s greatest challenge arrives when she receives a letter from her dearest Aunt Adele, forcing her to consider who she really is and what she truly wants for her future.

Susan is originally from a small town in north-eastern Ontario. Her inspiration for this novel was gleaned from the lives of her paternal grandparents, and her uncle’s stories about the old days. Home Fires is the product of her love of the North and passion for genealogy and history. Susan graduated from McGill University and is now retired from a rewarding teaching career in both Quebec and Ontario. She and her husband are the proud parents of two, doting grandparents of four, and live beside a lake in the Kawarthas.

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