Honour Above All Coming Soon!

I am so pleased to announce that the next title coming out from OC Publishing is Halifax, Nova Scotia-based (originally from New Brunswick) Yvette Ward MacDonald's debut novel, Honour Above All. It's an historical fiction/courtroom drama with a dash of romance.

"In Honour Above All we peek behind the curtain of the wealthy families and ambitious lawyers of 1960s Ottawa. Mary Clark is equal parts bold and naive in a time when the odds are stacked against women lawyers. How does she come by such an iron resolve? What hides in her murky past? A story layered with family trauma, it builds to a courtroom battle that challenges Mary's ethics at every turn. Can she uphold her client's wishes without losing everything she hold sacred? A legal drama with a dash of romance set in Mad Men-era Ottawa, you'll be transported to a leather chair by the open hearth with a glass of good scotch, reading into the night." Nicola Davison, author of In the Wake and Decoding Dot Grey.

Honour Above All releases on June 11, 2024 and is now available for pre-order from most online retailers (like Amazon, Indigo/Chapters, Barnes & Noble) and can be ordered into your favourite bookstore. It is available in paperback and in Global Certified Accessible (GCA) ebook formats. Visit www.ocpublishing.ca for more on Yvette and other OC Publishing authors.

Yvette Ward MacDonald

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