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Hosted by Dr Melanie Jackson (@melaniethemidwife www.melaniethemidwife.com). The Great Birth Rebellion dismantles western beliefs and management of birth and presents an evidence-based alternative to modern birth practices. We believe that calculated rebellion against medicalised maternity care is the evidence-based and preferred path to having a great birth. This is the great birth rebellion.

This book is a collection of four Jane Blackthorn historical mystery titles: Death in a High Place 1921-- The War is over, alcohol is proscribed and women have the vote. Jane Blackthorn should be happy but the holidays are looming and the young widow has no desire to spend them with her matchmaking family. An invitation from an old college friends arrives to save her. The college ski club is having a reunion at a hunting lodge in Canada and Jane decides that some clean living in the great outdoors is just what she needs. But it is apparent from the moment of her arrival that something is ...

Welcome to the Gulch... funny things happen in the middle of nowhere. Butterscotch Jones thought that living in the far north provided enough peril to contend with until a private plane crashed outside her hometown of McIntyre's Gulch, Manitoba, Canada. The treasure inside the plane soon attracted both the RCMP and the Russian Mafia. For a town built upon isolation and secrecy, the citizens faced very public exposure. "A light, fun read with an eccentric cast of characters who bring the village of MacIntyre's Gulch to delightful life." —Lisa Cach, author of "Wake Unto Me" McIntyre’s ...

Juliet Henry, water-color artist and retired agent of the NSA, wouldn't stack up her knowledge of the human heart against the great romantic poets, but she knows a thing or two about human avarice and stupidity. It comes as no great surprise when the small artists' colony of Bartholomew's Woods ends up with a dead resident.

Welcome to Hope Falls, where Autumn is in the air… "Melanie Jackson is a talent to watch." —WritersWrite.com An overturned truck on the outskirts of town has left wild turkeys running loose in Hope Falls. Chloe Boston, unofficial detective and meter maid, is set the task of rounding them up before Thanksgiving. While Chloe is hunting turkeys, she stumbles on a murder. Clues at the scene are pointing Chloe in the one direction she doesn't want to look. The chief wants both turkeys and killer rounded up by the holiday weekend. Can Chloe do the seemingly impossible and also be maid of ...

The road to true love is made rocky with horse thieves, highwaymen, former fiances, and a very determined Bow Street Runner. "Melanie Jackson is a talent to watch." —WritersWrite.com With the letter breaking his engagement, Stephan Kirton's hopes for respectability and happiness went up in smoke. It was inevitable that his travels abroad and "interaction with the lower classes" would put him beyond the scope of polite society. That and he was born a bastard. Ormstead Park was a place for dancing and flirting, for drinking and gambling, and for less innocent sports. It was a place where he...

From the Deepest Ocean While the technology of the war to end all wars had changed the face of Europe,, some things stayed the same; the tempestuous Scottish coast and the surrounding sea remained a place of unquenchable magic and mystery. Sequestered at Fintry Castle by the whim of her mistress, Hexy Garrow spared seven tears for her past—all of which were swallowed by the waves. Came the Deepest Passion By joining the water, those ears completed a ritual, and that ritual summoned a prince. He came for Hexy--and for something she didn't know she had stolen. He was a man of myth whose ...

The second book in Melanie Jackson's Wildside Series. "Melanie Jackson is a talent to watch." —WritersWrite.com Cyra Delphin never felt quite right in her own skin. As a child, her parents made her hide her gifts. But certain things don't stay buried. What others are afraid to acknowledge— the modern world's seedy underbelly, it's Wildside ruled by dark magic and goblins— doesn't simply go away. And when that darkness came to call, Cyra sought sanctuary in the Nevada desert. She found Thomas Marrowbone. He, too, was part of the Wildside. Beneath his tormented shell lurked something ...

The tenth offering in Melanie Jackson's bestselling Chloe Boston Cozy Mystery Series is a short story of approximately 19k words. "Melanie Jackson is a talent to watch." —WritersWrite.com It's Halloween and this year Chloe is certain she'll win the pumpkin carving contest, but the night before the competition someone uses Mr. Jackman's giant pumpkin to squash an unpopular dentist. This is publicity the town doesn't need. Can Chloe solve the pumpkin caper and save Halloween? If you are a fan of Nancy Pickard or Susan Conant you are going to love the cozy hometown feel of Moving Violation. ...

Into the Gloaming Recently widowed, Megan Culbin was glad to escape her abusive marriage and start over in an inherited cottage in a quaint Scottish village. Yes, all here was not as it seemed. Legend had it Finloss was cursed. And the coastal town, once home to witches and sea monsters, would soon see a creature far deadlier. "[A] page-turning paranormal romance!" ---Booklist But out of the sea and mist came an ally, a protector. The strange, distant and dangerous Lachlan was as powerful as he was handsome, and his thirst for vengeance could no more be denied than his passion for Megan. ...

Sometimes, it’s worth waiting a lifetime, or even two, for the woman of your dreams. The best Scottish time travel comedy-romance since… come to think of it, when was the last time you read a decent Scottish time travel comedy romance? Come experience the warm rays of the California sun as you’re drawn into an equally ancient and contemporary romance involving two lovers who were meant to be – even across time. Experience the ups and downs regarding the ins and outs of dating a 700-year-old highlander. "Melanie Jackson is a talent to watch." --WritersWrite.com Lessons should have ...

A highland historical romance previously published 8/2001 by Leisure Books. He smuggled many men, but could he steal her heart? "Melanie Jackson is a talent to watch." --WritersWrite.com "O, I forbid ye, maidens a' that wear gold in their hair, to come or go by Carterhaugh, for young Tamlane is there." It was not Robert Burns's elfin knight who greeted Amarantha on her arrival in Cornwall, but the wild rector, Tamlane Adair. The rumors of his nighttime rides across the moor only heightened his mystery. Listening to his silken voice she could almost forget the anguish that had driven her ...

Mayhew in Scotland (Kenneth Mayhew Historical Mysteries Book 5) Kenneth Mayhew has returned to the soggy, ancestral acres of England to visit kith and kin. But a little bit of extended family goes a long way and Kenneth and Bentley soon escape the auld lang syne by heading north to Scotland. But things are not peaceful over the border and Cill Fhinnein House where they are staying seems to be living under the pall of witches' curse and the ghost of her demon dog. Kenneth knows he must lend a hand to help his beleaguered chum, and ghost hunting is more fun than shooting grouse in the rain. ...

"Devil of the Highlands" is a highland historical romance originally published under the title "Iona" by Dorchester Publishing in 1999. "Melanie Jackson is a talent to watch." --WritersWrite.com Isolated by the icy storms of the North Atlantic, the isle of Iona was only a temporary haven for its mistress. Lona MacLean, daughter of a rebel and traitor to the crown, knew that it was only a matter of time before the bloody Sasannachs came for her. But she had a stout Scottish heart, and the fiery beauty had given up dreams of happiness years before. One task remained-- to protect her people. ...

The twelfth book in Melanie Jackson's bestselling Chloe Boston Cozy Mystery Series is a 31k-word book containing the stories "Snow Angel" and "High Society." "Melanie Jackson is a talent to watch." —WritersWrite.com In "Snow Angel," Alex and Chloe are headed out of town, ready to spend a peaceful Christmas at a ski resort in Bethlehem, Colorado. Once there, Chloe finds that all is far from peaceful and bright in the newly restored hotel with a dark history. Someone wants to keep the hotel from officially opening on New Year's Eve and is willing to sabotage the resort, even if it puts ...

The Chloe Boston Mysteries Volume 4 is a collection of books 11 - 13 in the bestselling Chloe Boston Cozy Mystery Series. It includes the works "Beast of a Feast", "Snow Angel", "High Society", and "Lucky Thirteen". In "Beast of a Feast", it's autumn in Hope Falls, the time of year that thoughts turn to family, friends, and large meals. Instead of hosting a large Thanksgiving meal at her place, Chloe opts to have a cozy dinner out with her husband, Alex. But her plans are changed for her and soon grow out of control. Meanwhile, Chloe is on the lookout for a lost boy in this delightful ...

From Melanie Jackson, Best-Selling author of the Chloe Boston Mystery Series. The sixth book in the Butterscotch Jones Mystery Series is 27k words in length. "Melanie Jackson is a talent to watch." --WritersWrite.com The time had come-- Butterscotch was ready to tie the knot! Plans were under way for the festivities and then the Mountie got called away on a dangerous case. Butterscotch was sure she could cope but, as the saying goes, man plans and the gods laugh. They laugh twice as hard at frantic brides. Will the Mountie be able to wrap up his case in time to get back to their wedding-- ...

"Points West" is the fifth book in Melanie Jackson's bestselling Butterscotch Jones Cozy Mystery Series. McIntyre's Gulch has had it's share of misadventure and close calls with the law, but this time disaster looms large. A corrupt Mountie has staggered to Butterscotch's doorstep and then dropped dead. Chuck Goodhead is able to identify the policeman as a traitor who is a purveyor of secrets. Dark and powerful enemies are converging on the town and Chuck and Butterscotch must work quickly to find out why a dying man used his last moments of life to come to them.

"On Deadly Tides" is the thrid installment in the Wendover House Cozy Mystery Series. A body has washed up on the beach and the past which was buried once is now a present danger to Tess MacKay and others in the islands. Questions about the corpse's identity lead to an exhumation of an empty grave and further queries about a supposed accidental death that might be a ritual murder. Unwilling to believe claims of a family bane that kills Wendovers every third generation, Tess sets out to find her missing great-grandfather-- dead or alive.

From Melanie Jackson, Best-Selling author of the Chloe Boston series comes "Gone South", the third installment in the Butterscotch Jones Cozy Mystery Series. Butterscotch receives a call from the states informing her that her father is dying. But is it a genuine deathbed call for reconciliation or a trap? In either case, Butterscotch solicits the help of Detective Chuck Goodhead to sneak over the border to see her father. Chuck risks his career to aid her and from that point on, chaos reigns. "A light, fun read with an eccentric cast of characters who bring the village of MacIntyre's Gulch ...