Wednesday Night Whites
Lüneburg, Germany – May 23, 1945:
Heinrich Himmler has been captured by the enemy and is being held in a British military prison. He’s shaved off his moustache, eyebrows and hair, replaced his rimless spectacles with horned rimmed glasses, and told his clueless captors his name was Herr Hitzinger. They’d believed him, but Himmler desperately needs them to know how powerful he is—the true architect of the holocaust—so he tells them his real name.
When he’s taken for a routine medical examination, Himmler realizes his mistake, and bites on a vial of cyanide he’s hidden in his mouth. In the fifteen minutes it takes for him to die, he knows the future of the Third Reich is secure. His Lebensborn pure-blooded Aryan children will be making their way to Lunenburg, Nova Scotia, where a large community of German descendants have made new lives since 1753. Under the tutelage and direction of famed Nazi doctors and escaped Nazi war criminals, he imagines Lunenburg will become a hub for white supremacists worldwide.
The Village of Chester, Lunenburg County, Nova Scotia – Present day:
Ruben Hollywood believes he is the grandson of Heinrich Himmler. He’s been trained by a cruel and brutal father to believe he’s the purest of the pure, the future of the human race. Women are to be used and abused with the sole purpose of being breed mares for the new Reich. And Ruben was encouraged to procreate liberally from an early age. Which he’d like to do, but for one problem. He’s impotent and has always been.
Even though he’s known as the best criminal defence lawyer in the province, with aspirations of being appointed the Supreme Court of Canada—where he intends to change the narrative on women’s rights, and anyone who isn’t heterosexual, or white—his anger festers until his violence is out of control.
As the small village of Chester, Nova Scotia, grapples with murder after murder, and domestic violence against women is at an all-time high, there’s only one common theme. The men charged with these crimes all belong to a club called the “Wednesday Night Whites” where their leader, cloaked in a white robe that covers his face, preaches white supremacy, and hatred of women.
The police are overwhelmed and the only evidence they have is circumstantial; not even enough to lay a charge. When famed Nazi-hunter, Padraig Cassidy, moves into the village, the terrified residents believe he’s their only hope. Who is committing these murders? And is it Ruben Hollywood? Padraig believes it is and so begins the most dangerous investigation of his career.
As violence escalates, Padraig—and a group of trusted colleagues—begin to unravel the shocking secrets that threaten to destroy them all.
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Graves Island
When forensic anthropologist, Marigold Merry, discovers the tiny skulls of three children while hiking on Graves Island, the cause of death is clear. They’d been victims of Josef Mengele-style medical experimentation, each showing signs of a drill hole bored through the front of their skulls prior to their death. Knowing this find has all the markings of Nazi Germany, Marigold contacts her brother who works for known Nazi hunter, Pádraig Cassidy, for help.
Hearing the news of this find, an Indigenous man, who only goes by ‘the Cardinal’ meets with Cassidy, and hires his firm to make a grid of Graves Island, using ground penetrating radar and LiDAR. The Cardinal believes Graves Island is the site of an unreported Residential School, where doctors who’d worked at death camps during World War II, and brought to Canada under a government program called ‘Operation Matchbox’, plied their evil trade. His theory is that the experimentation these doctors of death used on the Jews at Auschwitz and other death camps, continued in Canada, but their victims were the children held captive in residential schools.
As the search continues, mass grave sites are discovered all over the island containing thousands of bodies. As the crisis escalates, the RCMP, the Federal Department of Policing and even Joint Task Force 2 are called in to assist.
But there’s more to this theory than meets the eye. What really happened on Graves Island? Where had these little children come from? Who killed them? And how was this allowed to happen unnoticed for decades in the sleepy village of East Chester, on an island expropriated by the provincial government in 1967, and used as a provincial park?
A sequel to the international award-winning ‘Wednesday Night Whites’, the usual cast of characters is back in action, as they search for answers, and discover the true identity of Adonis Toph, creator and CEO of the Worldwide Organization of White Supremacists, and the man who single-handedly brought Toph Enterprises 2.0 to the pinnacle of success using the blueprint forged in Nazi Germany during the Nazi’s reign of terror.
GRAVES ISLAND by Marci Lin Melvin will be available on Amazon September 1st, 2026.
FORTRESS
It is 1758. The French Fortress of Louisbourg is on the brink of war. British Brigadier James Wolfe is a young man determined to prove himself worthy of the rank of major-general and plans to use the capture of the fortress to make good his claim.
The English have blockaded Louisbourg’s harbour for three years, and Governor Drucour knows that without the help of King Louis of France, the battle will be lost. Only his fortress, the imposing French bastion jutting towards the open Atlantic, stands sentinel against England’s capture of the new world.
Having infiltrated the confines of the fortress, “The Red Feather”, a notorious spy for the English, must choose between two loves—his country or Genevieve, the woman he has dreamt of for nearly a decade. But the titian-haired beauty knows more than she has led him to believe. To save Louisbourg, she will do anything—even play the role of devoted wife to the man who destroyed her life a decade before.
THE FORTRESS OF HER HEART
Louisbourg 1758: When the governor of the French Fortress of Louisbourg decrees that all unmarried women in the Fortress shall be wed before the English lay siege to it once again, Genevieve Henry is adamant that she will not go to the Chapelle. She has been abandoned at the altar once; she will not be humiliated again. But her mother prevails upon her, and she goes. As she suspected, even though there were plenty of soldiers marrying all the eligible young women, no one even casts an eye in her direction. Her relief is palpable, but as the priest snuffs out the candles, Genevieve is grabbed and dragged to the altar by a stranger who is no stranger, but rather the man who had jilted her ten years before. Can Genevieve open the fortress of her heart to a man she suspects is a spy for the English?
