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Emma Madison, Master Meddler isn't merely a slice of life — it is life lived large, a saga of treachery and revenge, growth and redemption, love lost and found. Join Emma as she rescues her niece, Jasmine Holmes, and brings her back to the small town she departed nine years ago in a billowing cloud of scandal. The year is 1956. Jasmine is returning with an eight-year-old daughter in tow, sick, broke and her life in ruins. Once back in her home town of Medford, she will undertake another kind of journey. And although it may be long and arduous, love and joy await her at the end — so much of it due to her Aunt Emma, with her remarkable ability to take things gone wrong and set them once again to rights. 

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Emma Madison

Master Meddler

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When Jasmine Holmes left the small lakeside community of Medford nine years ago, it was with a well-deserved reputation as the town tramp.

Last heard of, she was divorced and working as a blackjack dealer in a Las Vegas casino. Probably she never would return — if she had a choice! But fate has not been kind to Jasmine. Now her Aunt Emma is rescuing her from the hospital where she is a patient, and along with her eight-year-old daughter Laura, bringing her home to recover.

She arrives with a suitcase full of...



about the novel

Pat McDermott Michener has been writing all her life: newspaper and magazine articles, speeches, video and presentation scripts, press releases, reports, web copy — but until "Emma" she had never written a novel.
And she had absolutely no intention of doing so, until chunks of it assembled in her mind, and then, with greater and greater insistence, Emma and her niece Jasmine demanded that she sit down and tell their story.

Mostly, Pat wanted to get away from the computer she had been tied to for practically all her working life. After her BA, BJ, she was a journalist, then transitioned to public relations and communications work before co-founding a Toronto-based corporate communications firm. Her company was in business for over 25 years before she left to pursue, in retirement, a variety of other interests long delayed.

Old habits die hard, though. As a life-time reader, after a period of dissatisfaction with novels she had picked up, she decided to write one heavy on plot and light on flights of descriptive writing.
How well she achieved it, you be the judge.

Currently Pat has another novel underway, provisionally titled, "The Willows Walk".

Pat has three very accomplished, marvelous adult children, Carl, Greg and Julia. She lives in the countryside on a farm overlooking Georgian Bay, Ontario.

~Patricia Michener

Sometimes, while writing Emma, I had the eerie feeling I was being channeled — that my characters had taken over and that I was just setting down whatever he or she wanted. Afterward I would look at the finished chapter and think, 'where in the world did that come from?

patricia michener

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Co-creator, Sweetwater Writers Workshop

From the first chapter, I was entranced by Emma Madison. A timeless tale of dark family secrets threatening to wreak havoc on its rich cast of characters, this is also a novel about unrequited love and unbreakable spirit.

Pat Michener has done something I haven’t seen for a long time. She’s crafted a novel that is at once a sweeping saga about, and an intimate portrait of, women. Women unafraid to do what is needed in order to make things right.

Emma Madison is a timeless novel, at once traditional and wholly original. It’s the kind of book I disappeared into, and whose characters became dear friends.

What a satisfying read.

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old scandals, and one closely guarded, unspeakable secret. None welcome her return. Some are actively dreading it: Jasmine’s cousin Anna, whose fiancé, Royce, ran off to the city with Jasmine before returning to make her an honest woman; Elizabeth Stoddart, one-half of the town’s leading power couple, whose only son Mason was once engaged to Jasmine; Emma’s next-door neighbour, Thomas Latham, a teacher at the local high school with whom Jasmine supposedly had an affair, and his wife Lianne, who is mortally ill.

So one can only imagine the volcano of gossip that erupts with the news that Lianne Latham has chosen, as her sick nurse during her last illness, none other than her husband’s former lover — Jasmine Holmes!

As time passes, other once- or would-be lovers appear: Mason Stoddart, who is leaving an unhappy marriage; Alistair McGregor, a determined, if callow, young suitor, and Royce Parke, the disreputable husband of Anna, Jasmine's cousin and best friend.

It is Royce's dark secret that will put Jasmine in the greatest danger of her life. Only once it is resolved can she use the great skill she has acquired during her years in Vegas to pursue her ambitions, and find once more the love she lost along the way.

This novel may be Jasmine’s story; but there is someone else who can be seen, hovering in the background. She is the individual who subtly influences the course of events that will lead to its happy outcome. Watching, waiting, and then, with perfect timing, pulling the right strings — is Jasmine's sage and savvy aunt, the redoubtable Emma Madison, master meddler.

    

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Old scandals, and one closely guarded, unspeakable secret. None welcome her return. Some are actively dreading it: Jasmine’s cousin Anna, whose fiancé, Royce, ran off to the city with Jasmine before returning to make her an honest woman; Elizabeth Stoddart, one-half of the town’s leading power couple, whose only son Mason was once engaged to Jasmine; Emma’s next-door neighbour, Thomas Latham, a teacher at the local high school with whom Jasmine supposedly had an affair, and his wife Lianne, who is mortally ill.

So one can only imagine the volcano of gossip that erupts with the news that Lianne Latham has chosen, as her sick nurse during her last illness, none other than her husband’s former lover — Jasmine Holmes!

As time passes, other once- or would-be lovers appear: Mason Stoddart, who is leaving an unhappy marriage; Alistair McGregor, a determined, if callow, young suitor, and Royce Parke, the disreputable husband of Anna, Jasmine's cousin and best friend.

It is Royce's dark secret that will put Jasmine in the greatest danger of her life. Only once it is resolved can she use the great skill she has acquired during her years in Vegas to pursue her ambitions, and find once more the love she lost along the way.

This novel may be Jasmine’s story; but there is someone else who can be seen, hovering in the background. She is the individual who subtly influences the course of events that will lead to its happy outcome. Watching, waiting, and then, with perfect timing, pulling the right strings — is Jasmine's sage and savvy aunt, the redoubtable Emma Madison, master meddler.

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