• Homeless, a novel

    A woman is caught
    breaking into a
    Century stone house

    She won’t tell anyone her name, not police, not social workers, not even the judge, who sends her to a forensic psychology ward full of dangerously unbalanced criminals ...

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  • Cally's Way, a novel

    Love, World War II,
    and A Future
    She Could Not Imagine

    Events demolish Cally’s fragile equilibrium, setting her on a new, uncharted path into Crete’s history, stripping her of even her clothes before leading to deep love, a horrific family discovery, and a future she could not have imagined.

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  • The Oak Island Affair, a novel

    where there is no turning back . . .

    Vanessa's discovery of a 400-year-old diary written by a Spanish Dominican monk plunges her into an underworld of treasure, intrigue and obsession, where rules of the surface world do not apply.

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  • Dead and Living, a novel

    Memory, Passion, Duty,
    And
    A Dance between Truth And Justice

    ... based on the true story of a man who did not know, for 25 years, whether he was a murderer.

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  • A literary adventurer

    Jane Bow

    The daughter of diplomats, I grew up in Canada, in the United States during the McCarthy era, in Generalissimo Franco’s fascist Spain, in England and in Communist Czechoslovakia.

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    Jane Bow

“When I am not writing at home on the edge of a Canadian forest, or in a mountainside village in Crete, or in a Prague cafe, I am exploring history’s awesome powers of love and destruction.” – Jane Bow

COURAGE • WORLD WAR II • DEEP LOVE

Jane Bow’s new novel, Cally’s Way - released Spring 2014

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A skillfully written novel, romantic yet tough-minded, in a beautiful setting...

Rethymnon Bugle

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This book is highly recommended...

Hilary Boyd, bestselling U.K. author

A beautifully written tale...

Robert Begiebing, award-winning U.S. author

Cally’s Way resonates deeply... with surprising connections among the violent and tragic occupations of the Second World War...

Jane Bow

A literary adventurer

The daughter of diplomats, I grew up in Canada, in the United States during the McCarthy era, in Generalissimo Franco’s fascist Spain, in England and in Communist Czechoslovakia.

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