Nicole Bross Books In Order

Publication Order of Standalone Novels

Nicole Bross
Author Nicole Bross is from Calgary, Alberta, the traditional territory of the Niitsitapi (Blackfoot) and the people of the Treaty 7 region in Southern Alberta. She lives here with her two kids, husband, and a huge orange cat.

She has an applied degree in Journalism from Mount Royal College, and her work has been featured in various print publications. She is a credited writer and researcher for various nonfiction programs. Nicole’s worked as the editor-in-chief of Birthing Magazine.

During her younger years, she began publishing a newspaper (which had a circulation of five) when she was ten. She began writing short stories at the age of eight, and was selected as the editor for her high school paper and copy chief of her college paper. She was fortunate to also get plenty of encouragement from teachers and her family to write.

She is an advocate for mental health awareness, having lived with anxiety and panic disorder since her childhood. More recent diagnosis of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder has unlocked some additional insight into just some of the roadblocks that she faces in her daily life. She believes in honesty and openness about illnesses and mental health is critical to fighting stigma, and considers herself to be proudly neurodiverse.

Most often, she writes in a tiny eight by ten shed located in her backyard, which she turned into a retreat/office, filled with vintage bottles and books, snarky artwork, and typewriters. Even though it has a fireplace, she never uses it when it is -30C outside, preferring instead to decamp to the library or a cafe.

As an avid world traveler, she collects passport stamps like some people collect coffee mugs. Her goal is to visit a new country each year; her best (thus far) has been six. Nicole’s very favorite place in the entire world is her ancestral home in Cornwall, England. But Abaco Island in the Bahamas comes pretty close.

She enjoys seeking out manual typewriters that have interesting typefaces to add into her collection. Her crowning glories include a 1920s Torpedo Model 12 with a German keyboard that was used as a prop for the NBC series Lost and a 1920s Mignon 3 with a gothic blackletter font.

Nicole also cans, gardens, smokes, pickles and ferments her own food, and reads voraciously. “Jane Eyre” is her very favorite novel.

“Past Presence” was a finalist for the Arthur Ellis Award for Best First Crime Novel from the Crime Writers of Canada in the year 2019.

Nicole’s debut novel, called “Past Presence”, was released in the year 2019. Her work is from the urban fantasy and paranormal romance genres.

“Past Presence” is the first stand alone novel and was released in the year 2019. Only by looking into the past will Audrey be able to save her future.

Audrey Eames is happy just to live the wanderer’s life. After one near-death experience during her teen years, she can see people’s past lives whenever her skin touches theirs, and since she is afraid of being labeled as delusional, she has never made any deep connections with anybody or stayed in one place for too long.

Her estranged aunt dies and Audrey inherits the historic Soberly Inn and Public House on the scenic Oregon coast, she wants absolutely nothing to do with it. She is just determined to sell off the inn and leave town before somebody can discover the true power that she has been hiding from the world, however clauses in her aunt’s will appear to block her at every single turn.

Once she is ensconced in Soberly’s small town life, the people, especially Kellen Greene, the inn’s bartender, begin growing on her, and she starts feeling that possibly she has found a place all her own. While the townspeople seem accepting, she is afraid of their reactions, and Kellen’s rejection, and chooses to keep her visions a secret. All isn’t well in Soberly. Quickly after Audrey shows up, people in town begin dying in the same manner as in their previous lives, however in this lifetime it is murder. Suspicion begins to fall on Kellen and Audrey, she vows to use her gift to locate the killer and keep the people she loves safe, before time runs out.

This novel is full of surprises and is always interesting. Nicole’s characters and story in this book were outstanding. Audrey ends up being a character that you truly want as a friend.

“Moving On” is the second stand alone novel and was released in the year 2021. There is no Ritalin for dead girls.

Breanna Banks is doing a decent job of navigating high school and conquering her ADHD. Until death comes knocking. One minute she is trying to figure out the social hierarchies of junior year, and the next she has died of an aneurysm. Talk about your girl, interrupted.

Bree, rather than moving onward, has been chosen to become an Attendant, which is a supernatural being that helps people’s spirits transition into the hereafter. Dee, Bree’s mentor, informs her that she has just a little time to figure this job out, because there is a major disaster coming. Thousands of people will die, and every Attendant is needed to support them, including the brand new ones.

Bree needs to be at the top of her game; should an Attendant not be able to help a dying person transition, their spirit remains Earthbound and it triggers the kind of unnatural mass die-off that kills hundreds of closeby creatures in one instant. There’s one thing, Bree’s barely able to manage doing her homework, never mind the last moments of a person’s life. What is she to do about the guy that makes her undead heart come back to life, even if he is still very much alive?

Overwhelmed by grief by everything that she has lost and for the future she is never going to get, she doubts that she will ever be able to push her problems aside and put other people first. With countless lives being put on the line, and fulfill a destiny that she didn’t ask for before tragedy can strike.