Looking for Gardenio

Shakespeare scholar Deirdre Gunn, her reputation tarnished by an affair with a student, is denied tenure at Melrose University. Her career seems ruined, until a classmate from her student days approaches her with a centuries-old manuscript that may be Shakespeare’s lost play, Cardenio. If genuine, the manuscript is priceless. Here is Deirdre’s chance to redeem her reputation and return with glory to the academic world.

Jean Rae Baxter taught secondary school for many years in Eastern Ontario, a region populated by the descendants of United Empire Loyalists. Research into their history resulted in her young adult story, &quotFarewell the Mohawk Valley" (Beginnings, Ronsdale, 978-0-921870-87-6). Baxter’s adult fiction appears regularly in Canadian literary journals and anthologies. In 2005, Seraphim Editions published A Twist of Malice (0-9734588-4-4), her short-story coll