Canadian author Shirley Burton has released her thirteenth novel, with extensive research and a versatile style applied in her thriller and suspense novels, her whodunit mystery books, feel-good Christmas stories, and her charming fantasy novel with an inspiring message of courage, and her acclaimed ten-generation historical fiction. Born in Barrie, Ontario, Shirley Burton has traveled to locations of 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.
