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Of Peat Moss + Prayers

Release Date: March 25 2023

Leanna LaFleur has everything she’s ever dreamed of: a successful career as a professional photographer, a beautiful home on the San Francisco Bay, and a handsome partner with whom she’s built the perfect life. But everything falls apart when she receives a cryptic phone call drawing her across time and space to a place she hasn’t seen in nearly two decades.

After travelling the globe in search of herself, Leanna is called back to an Acadian village nestled at the foot of the Highlands she once called home to seek redemption and reconciliation with her roots. Coming to terms with her past and the people she left behind, Leanna faces a difficult decision: return to her old life of superficial glamour or give it all up to remain on the Island with a chance of a fresh start.

“Amanda Crewe has written a story that is real and raw and takes her reader deep into the heart of postpartum depression, without allowing us to lose all hope.”
Lana Shupe
Author, Book Reviewer and Reader
“The writing in this debut novel is raw, edgy, daring, and in its quiet moments—hauntingly beautiful.”
Beatrice MacNeil
Author

Of Mointeach + Mantras

Release Date: July 4, 2024
Following the loss of the life she thought she was coming home to, Leanna LaFleur is forced to come to terms with who and what she is willing to sacrifice in order to finally find peace and purpose in her life. Continuing on her journey, Leanna travels from the Cape Breton Highlands to a hidden ashram on the Guatemalan border of southwest Mexico to face her innermost fears.
 
Straining against traditional societal roles and expectations surrounding motherhood, Leanna journeys to the darkest corners of her psyche in a maternal metamorphosis that threatens to annihilate her fully. Without a parental compass to guide her, she relies on the help of newfound friends and a mysterious guru she meets along the way to help shape her into the woman she has always been too afraid to become.
 
 
 

 

“The writing in this debut novel is raw, edgy, daring, and in its quiet moments—hauntingly beautiful.”
Beatrice MacNeil
Author