Rose Sutherland Books In Order

Publication Order of Standalone Novels

Rose Sutherland is an accomplished published author.

Rose grew up to be a reader of just about everything that she could physically get in her hands while living in the rural Nova Scotia area where she was born and grew up. She currently is the proud owner of an overactive imagination. Once she even fell off her house roof in an attempt to re-enact a part of Anne of Green Gables.

Rose says that ever since she has continued to be foolhardy in an entertaining way, attending and graduating from theater school in New York City, becoming an apprentice at a French patisserie, and working at night as a bartender and an usher while in Toronto.

The author says that her hobbies extend to singing, dancing, doing yoga, looking for great coffee and croissants in the wild, and coming up with niche jokes and making them about Victor Hugo while online. Rose also likes the idea of someday being able to own a dog, some chickens, and even a goat.

She recommends to readers other books besides hers, in particular The Paris Affair by Maureen Marshall. Rose says that the book is ‘bold, intricate’, and ‘deftly constructed’. The author calls the story a marvel and praises the eye that Marshall has for historical detail and the frailties of a human heart. Sutherland rates the story as the ‘perfect balance’ of a love story and a mystery, all built around the quest of a young man to secure the future and find out just what it means to live in your truth. Sutherland says that it’s also about what makes a family and a home. So if you are looking for something new to read, give this book a try!

Her debut novel came out in 2024 for readers to enjoy for the first time. It is titled A Sweet Sting of Salt.

A Sweet Sting of Salt is the debut book from author Rose Sunderland. If you have been searching for something new to enjoy in your life, give this queer re-imagining of the folktale The Selkie Wife a try!

A young woman finds out a secret that has long been kept buried regarding his neighbor as well as his new wife. Now she’s going to have to enter into a whole new fight in order to try and make sure that she and the woman that she cares about are safe.

Jean wakes up in the middle of the night during a terrible storm, all due to a sharp cry. She doesn’t know what could have caused it and actually thinks that she must have been dreaming. When the cry comes around again, Jean decides that she’s going to go outside.

There she is vastly surprised by what she finds. A young woman is giving birth to a baby, already in the process of labor. While it is cold outside she is even colder as she is completely wet. On top of that, she cannot speak anything in English at all, unless she is convincingly faking it.

Jean is the village’s only midwife, and she’s the only person with those skills to exist for miles. She doesn’t know who this woman is and is confused about where she comes from. Perhaps she is the neighbor’s new wife, the one who lives up the road?

Tobias, the neighbor in question, does end up showing at the cabin and he’s looking for Muirin, his wife. But the list of questions that Jean has only continues to get longer. She wonders why he decided to keep it to himself that his wife was pregnant. She’s also noticed that the demeanor Muirin has of being completely open seems to change when he is around.

Jean knows that she should stay out of it, and has a long history of keeping out of the business of others. But the concern that she is growing, and the feelings that she has for the woman means that she must take heed of what she is thinking about. She just can’t stop being worried about this situation and pretend that everything is fine.

The answers that she is looking for may not be something she may be ready to encounter when she finds them. Jean is even worried she may have put the baby and Muirin and her own life at risk. She might be able to put things right, but can she? After falling for this woman so quickly, she has to do something to protect them all. Can they get out of this sticky situation or are they doomed? Read this thrilling book to find out!