Loving Zoe (Paperback or Softback)

Dark secrets enslave a handful of people in Maskwa Point, whose lives ebb and flow into each other's daily routines.

Among them is Dr. Reid Goldberg. After having promised his grandmother as a teen that he would become a doctor saving lives, his professional work is transformed radically after a medical tour of duty in Afghanistan. He is a changed man, eventually becoming a practitioner in an abortion clinic. When his son asks hard questions about what Reid does, he must decide what's more important: his boy or his work.

Dr. Evelyn Wall firmly believes that providing abortion services to the women of Maskwa Point is her duty, never questioning what she does until she's faced with delivering a baby in an emergency.

Dr. Shelly Turner is a staunch feminist who is convinced her friends have ruined their lives by having babies at the wrong time. Her work providing abortions at the Lamia Health Centre ensures other women won't have to go through that. When she unexpectedly becomes pregnant, her work environment becomes . . . awkward.

As the doctors' fates intertwine with those of various citizens, a domino effect is set in motion that will force all of them to make tough decisions regarding their respective futures.

Marie-Blanche Mitchell is a retired teacher who taught for over thirty years and has volunteered for the last ten years at an eleventh-hour ministry across the street from an abortion clinic.

She has been heavily involved in community and musical theatre, as well as historical re-enactment. Over her lifetime, she has written plays, produced some successfully for dinner theatre fundraisers, and still has some half-finished screenplays on the shelf. Her works include Fingers in All the Pies, Paul Kane: Painter of Stories, Kate the Storyteller, Max's Unexpected Gift, The Sharing Girl, Camilla's Last Screech, and "Vernal Regeneration," a short story published in Beneath the Mask: Faith, Hope, and Transformation in the Face of COVID-19.

Marie-Blanche is an Alberta grandmother of four living with two affectionate rescue felines, Somkat and Morkat.