TouchWood, Victoria, BC, 2010, 1^st/1^st.   ISBN 978-1-926741-06-2.  Hard cover, 232 pages.  Unread copy; a few light rubs on jacket.  ‘Hal Bannatyne is a successful actor in town to shoot a big-budget film.  Reconnecting with an old flame, Mattie, he becomes involved with her family – and her family’s troubles.  When Mattie’s father-in-law tries to protect his land from the hands of a fervent land developer, Bannatyne gets mixed up in the conflict.  Thus the intrigue begins, and it escalates when a crooked land-development scheme leads to attempted murder.’ (from rear panel)