Jude spent most of her adult life in California and Texas but in 1991 she returned to Canada and married Metis author John Wisdomkeeper who passed away in 2022. Jude now lives in Drayton Valley, Alberta Writing since she was a teenager, Jude has followed her dream throughout her lifetime, and in the process has met and worked with countless others following their own personal dreams. Jude is also publisher for BWL Publishing Inc. . A Canadian publisher of quality genre fiction.
Her published books include the following
Mystery series
Deadly Secrets, Kelly McWinter PI, Book 1
Deadly Betrayal, Kelly McWinter PI, Book 2
Deadly Consequences, Kelly McWinter PI, Book 3
Deadly Lights, Kelly McWinter PI, Book 4
Paranormal Romantic suspense
co-written with author Gail Roughton – Mother Shipton and the Sister Witches
Novel co-written with Katherine Pym
Canadian Historical Brides Collection, Book 5
Pillars of Avalon, Newfoundland
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Spectral Evidence
Seventeen year-old Newfoundlander Charlotte Jaddore loves nothing more than learning sacred healing arts from the elders of her Mi’kmaq and Beothuk grandmothers. But the year is 1692 and her father needs her help. Their American cousins in Salem, Massachusetts have been accused of witchcraft. Will Charlotte help her father fight for the lives of Philip and Mary English?
When father and daughter arrive in Salem, their cousins have already been imprisoned. How can the couple survive against spectral evidence— harming their victims from afar as invisible projections? The motives of their accusing neighbors are anything but spiritual. They are after the English famiiy’s wealth.
And the sights of those accusers are now fixed on the heirs. Can Charlotte get young Mary, Philip and William to Newfoundland, without infecting her own beloved island with spectral evidence fever?
“well-paced, engaging… with likable characters.”— Goodreads Review
“Recommended for anyone who is interested in mysteries, or learning more about Native culture.”— Long and Short Reviews
Pillars of Avalon
David and Sara Kirke live in a time of upheaval under the reign of King Charles I who gives, then takes. He gives David the nod of approval to range up and down the French Canadian shores, burning colonies and pillaging ships that are loaded with goods meant for the French. When Louis XIII of France shouts his outrage, King Charles reneges. He takes David’s prizes and returns them to the French, putting David and his family in dire straits.
Undeterred, David and Sara will not be denied. After years, the king relents. He knights David and gives him a grant for the whole of Newfoundland and Labrador. There David and Sara build a prosperous plantation. They trade fish and fish oil with colonies down the American coast, Barbados and ports of call in the Mediterranean. They thrive while England is torn in two by the civil wars.
Soon, these troubles engulf his family. David is carried in chains back to England to stand trial for being a malignant, a follower of Laud's high church. He entreats Sara to manage the Ferryland plantation, a daunting task but with a strength that defies a stalwart man, she digs in and prospers, becoming the first entrepreneur of Newfoundland.
Mother Shipton and the Sister Witches
The Shipton history is complicated. Some families have a guardian angel.
The Shiptons have a guardian ancestor who whizzes through the centuries and jumps right in whenever one of her girls is in trouble. All the girls have power and they’re watched over by elder sister Lillian, who takes her job as family trouble shooter seriously.
There’s no shortage of trouble to be sorted out either and even with their own powers each of the girls needs help. First Katherine's oilman fiancé disappears in the Gulf of Mexico, and then Irene's world champion saddle bronc rider fiancé is sabotaged and in danger of being trampled by a bucking bronco.
The spider-web of trouble stretching between these three modern sister witches might be too much for even a time-traveling guardian angel to handle on her own.