True Travel

Travel is one thing, but really going somewhere is something else. Here are firsthand tales of exciting places to see in the US, Canada, Mexico, Europe, and the United Kingdom.

Ready for a sweet, wholesome romance? Here you go! Post-Revolutionary War North Carolina: Jenny and Scout were married the ‘Indian way’ when they were very young. They had decided she would live with her newly adopted parents and while he worked. Willing to work where and however long it took, Scout wanted his wife to have a proper home. Having finally earning enough to take to her, he's hoodwinked out of hard-earned income. Would his wife forgive him for being fooled? And how would he be able to support her without a nest egg? A clean and sweet historical romance, great for all ages.

When Louisa Deasey receives a message from a Frenchwoman called Coralie, who has found a cache of letters in an attic, written about Louisa’s father, neither woman can imagine the events it will set in motion. The letters, dated 1949, detail a passionate affair between Louisa’s father, Denison, and Coralie’s grandmother, Michelle, in post-war London. They spark Louisa to find out more about her father, who died when she was six.

This book is a romantic novel packed with adventure and romance that spans several countries. Based on a true story, this book tells the tale of forbidden love between a Russian woman who meets an American man while on a trip through Europe. Written from her perspective, the story tells of how she begins to fall for the foreigner through their various spontaneous adventures.

The sequel to Guarding Angel As a child, Angel cast out a demon from her abusive mother. Now, she and Pastor Moore are called to Iowa to evaluate a twelve-year-old boy whose parents fear he’s possessed. On the trip there, they meet a variety of people, including a strange Native American woman who warns her that she is in danger and “things aren’t always as they seem.” But when they interview the family, Angel is suspicious the boy is being abused. She gives him her cell phone number and tells him to call her if he’s in danger. During the night, he does. She hears shouting in the ...

When late-blooming petty criminal John Lindow feels the noose begin to tighten, he decides to make a speedy exit from his Cumbria home and flee to Spain. Rather than heading for the ‘Costa del Crime’ the resourceful loner travels inland to seek his fortune and improve his language skills. As he blazes a trail of delinquency from Alicante to Asturias our self-educated anti-hero always finds time to see the sights, before pressing on to inflict further distress on his unsuspecting victims. On becoming entangled with international malefactors, however, the stakes suddenly become much ...

SPIKE IN SPAIN is the light-hearted story of a peculiar Lancastrian’s relocation to a small town at the foot of the Alicante mountains. An obsessive cyclist and the bane of his long-suffering wife’s life, Spike finds himself booted out of the family home and consigned to a grotty terraced house in Colne. Believing, incorrectly, that an old clubmate has invited him to stay at his Spanish retreat, a spell of lateral thinking by the cycling club president, Pete, leads to Spike’s flight to his old pal Mike’s house instead. As the charitable Mike has already rescued three donkeys and a ...

Two women travel separately to a tiny Caribbean island with wildly different expectations … Tracy, a funny, feisty businesswoman in her forties, comes to paradise to investigate a shocking family secret. Expecting the worst, she instead falls madly for a charming fisherman. Is it just a holiday romance or could it – should it – last?

We’d been apart less than two days, and he was still determined to make up for lost time. “You like it when I touch you here?” he murmured against my skin, kissing my neck from shoulder to ear. “Yes,” I sighed, holding his head in my hands as he feasted on me like a starving man. *** It's been a wild ride for Caleb and me, and it's only getting wilder by the minute. Between Masterson, the sheik, an elite group of assassins, and the law, everyone wants a piece of us. But when are we going to get any peace?

If you thought sailing the world is an endless holiday of bikinis and martinis, get ready for a bucket-list adventure of a lifetime! Gripping true stories open a window into the liveaboard lifestyle and complex challenges of blue water sailing—where simple decisions have real-life consequences and where the most provocative obstacles live inside a sailor's soul. If you are intrigued by an escape from the ordinary, come aboard as a sailor and two seadogs discover exactly what it’s like to live life sideways. Living Life Sideways Prequel – The Departure Seduced by the sea and enchanting...

Darryl E. Allen’s life has been a journey filled with obstacles, lessons, and divine intervention. From a troubled youth experimenting with drugs and struggling in school to enlisting in the Air Force under false pretenses, his path was anything but easy. Facing challenges in education, employment, and even life-threatening situations, Allen’s story is a testament to resilience, perseverance, and the power of faith. Through raw and honest storytelling, A Hard Road to Travel explores the importance of mentorship, the consequences of choices, and the undeniable presence of God’s ...

When Clew Rawlins is unwittingly sent back in time to relive the 3rd grade, he wonders if he could save the life of his classmate Christina, who died jaywalking. But will he make the right choice as he debates the ethics of changing the past, and dealing with the peril unknown consequences.

One day, on a remote island, Katrina Bos found herself faced with having to literally eat eyeballs.... When she told her friends later about it, they asked her why she did it - why didn’t she just say “no”? Well, because she had never considered that she could. She was a long-time people-pleaser who almost never considered her own desires, preferences, or comfort if it meant possibly disappointing someone else.

For decades, the singular and provocative paintings by Cree artist Kent Monkman have featured a recurring character—an alter ego of sorts, a shape-shifting, time-travelling elemental being named Miss Chief Eagle Testickle. Though we have glimpsed her across the years, and on countless canvases, it is finally time to hear her story, in her own words. And, in doing so, to hear the whole history of Turtle Island anew.

It's 2014, and Amy Daughters is a 46-year old stay-at-home mom living in Dayton, Ohio. She returns to her hometown of Houston over the Thanksgiving holiday to discuss her parents’ estate and finds herself hurled back in time. Suddenly, it’s 1978, and she is forced to spend 36 hours in her childhood home with her nuclear family, including her 10-year old self.

The City of Falling Angels opens on the evening of January 29, 1996, when a dramatic fire destroys the historic Fenice opera house. The loss of the Fenice, where five of Verdi's operas premiered, is a catastrophe for Venetians. Arriving in Venice three days after the fire, Berendt becomes a kind of detective - inquiring into the nature of life in this remarkable museum-city - while gradually revealing the truth about the fire.

Julia is granted a working holiday visa and heads to Australia. Never one to do things quietly, she tours the country via a jumble of hostels, road trips, and randomness, indulging in more than her fair share of debauchery along the way. She attempts and fails to learn to surf, attends her very first festival, and explores the open-minded village of Nimbin.

A Minneapolis Reporter follows the boyhood dream to see Where Goes The River. On Memorial Day, 1925, he embarked from the headwaters of the Mississippi River-Lake Itasca, and spent the next 105 days on the river, becoming the first person to have made the complete 2500-mile journey by canoe. Averaging nearly 30 miles per day Tousley and his three separate companions, endured the elements and enjoyed the mighty grandeur of the river in the only way that one can truly experience it. . . by canoe. A 17-foot wood and canvas beauty named Charles H. Curly of St. Paul their canoe bore the brunt of...

UPCOTE, a self-styled gentleman of leisure who subsidises his state hand-outs with a little wheeling and dealing on the side meets the struggling SMYTHE and sets out to help his young protégé of fifty-three fulfil his true and hitherto well-concealed potential. With the help of Upcote’s indomitable Aunt Mabel and under the sceptical scrutiny of coin-obsessed café owner Bob, the two men set out to put their sartorial and cultural superiority on a sound financial footing. Dodging the slings and arrows of outraged punters our two heroes push, swerve and stumble onwards towards their dream...

Luxor, Friday the 13th of April 2007, 09:15 am, the accident… At the hotel, the elevator cabin was not there, and a fall of five floors then destroyed my life… Through my testimony, I do not wish to highlight my tragedy, but to make people aware of the risks incurred when one goes on an adventure in another country. The restriction on insurance coverage reserves us, then, many surprises… Everything can suddenly stop. It doesn’t just happen to others. And when we lose everything, it is very difficult, even with courage, to face the meanders of modern society in order to regain ...