Canadian author Shirley Burton has released her sixteenth novel in a range of genres, including her thriller and suspense novels, gentler whodunit mystery books, feel-good Christmas stories, a charming fantasy novel with an inspiring message of courage, and an acclaimed ten-generation historical fiction from France to the New World. Born in Barrie, Ontario, Shirley Burton has traveled to the towns and cities of her books, walking the neighborhoods and streets of her characters. Research took her to parts of France and Quebec for her 600-page historical fiction, Homage: Chronicles of a Habitant, portraying ten generations that migrated from France to the New World. For research for novels, she has traveled to locations in Istanbul, Paris, Rome, Greece, London, Amsterdam, Brazil, California, New York, and parts of Canada and the USA.