Anneli Purchase: 5 books

Two people running from abusive relationships meet by chance in Mexico’s Baja peninsula. It seems like love at first sight, but there are secrets each one is not telling the other. Will their new love be strong enough to withstand the determined pursuit by their spouses who want them back for less...

Andrea leaves big-city boredom in Ontario to search for love and a new life on B.C.’s rugged coast. The love of two men and a woman leads her into the world of commercial fishing. But soon, her adventure becomes a nightmare. The beauty of her surroundings is at odds with the terror that she lives...

Unlucky in love, Marlie flees a bad relationship. She accepts a teaching job in the remote Queen Charlotte Islands (Haida Gwaii). The beauty of the islands and the rugged challenge of northern living enthrall her. A good-looking artist has his eye on her. The perfect gentleman. Or is he? And what...

Julia, a young widow with two small children, is expelled from her Sudetenland home in post-WWII reprisals by the Czechs. Barely able to survive in refugee camps, Julia struggles to take care of her family. Resettled in southern Germany, she marries again. Her new husband, Karl, is a difficult but...

In Reckoning Tide, the stand-alone sequel to The Wind Weeps, Andrea has escaped from the isolated cabin on the coast of British Columbia where her husband has abused her for the past year. With the man she should have married, Andrea strives for a normal life, but her ex-husband refuses to live without...