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Corinne Hoebers
After twenty-five years of adventures in Toronto and Calgary and a forty-year career in the travel industry, Corinne felt the pull to return to Nova Scotia, where she grew up. As a direct descendant of one of the first 1753 settlers of Lunenburg, her passion for history moved her to write her first self-published novel, Call of a Distant Shore, which won the Silver Medal for Canada East, Best Fiction 2009, from the Independent Publisher Book Awards. Soon after, she began a comprehensive journey that led her to write Tethered Spirits.
Corinne loves the mysterious, mystical, and diverse world we live in and believes that just because we cannot see it does not mean it does not exist—it simply has not been discovered yet. She is an anomaly who does not own a microwave, dishwasher, or cellphone. Her life encompasses lively games with her bridge friends; her love of gardening where things grow, buzz, and crawl, with a visit most mornings from her helper, the neighbour cat; practising Tai Chi; and hiking with her husband through hemlock forests and unspoiled nature trails in out-of-the-way places.
A member of the Writers’ Federation of Nova Scotia, Corinne lives in the Annapolis Valley with her Dutch husband and a British Blue cat named Toby who is happiest when he is fed, loved, and has a clean litter box and a warm lap. Corinne and her husband have four grandchildren.
Corinne's Book
Tethered Spirits
Against the backdrop of the French/Indian War, racialized assumptions fester within the colony as the British feed the settlers biased information about the Mi’kmaq. Except for two German siblings who learn about and understand the ancient People. Christian, now Bear Cub, lives with the Mi’kmaq and develops a resilient friendship with Eagle Feather as life-changing events threaten his new family’s way of life; and his younger sister, Hanna, who befriends a Mi’kmaw Elder in Lunenburg questions her papa’s ownership of land. Through these forged relationships, both brother and sister come to a truer awareness of a hospitable People within a consensus-based and just society.
Through Eagle Feather’s teachings, Christian immerses himself in the Mi’kmaw language and the ways of the land which he stands by his Mi’kmaw brother to defend. Christian’s father and older sister, Elisabeth, will not accept his choice, nor recognize the shared humanity with their perceived enemy.
Christian is caught between two diverse families and cultures—the one to which he was born and to whom he feels obligated, and the one he has grown to love and respect. The story unravels as they all struggle on land that is the ancestral home to one and promised to the other.
Tethered Spirits is coming out on October 19th, 2025.
Cover reveal coming soon!