Mona Knight is a journalist, short‑story writer, and novelist. She is the author of The Fortune Saga novels: Banjo Flats, Second Chance and Heartbreak Rodeo and The Good Thief and other stories (Boularderie Island Press.) She was raised on a sunny sheep farm in Ontario. During her working career, she was, for a time, a correspondent for an international aid programme for children in the Third World. She retired to Cape Breton with her husband Jim in 2008 and wrote for a number of years for the local newspaper, The Victoria Standard. She loves her life in Cape Breton and plans to stay forever.
The Good Thief and other stories
by Mona Knight
ISBN: 978-1-926448-90-9
$21.95
In The Good Thief, Mona Knight gathers stories that move like weather across the pages—quiet shifts, sudden gusts, and moments of stillness where lives can be felt in their truest light.
A donkey’s companionship becomes a lifeline. Two cab‑driving brothers risk everything for a teenager on the edge. A wedding night is upended by an ancient ritual that reshapes a young bride’s sense of devotion. A mother’s fierce love pulls her daughter from danger. Other stories chart the courage required to begin again.
Knight’s prose listens closely to the music of human connection—the hesitations, the bravado, the small mercies that often go unseen. With deep vulnerability and a keen sense of wonder, Knight explores the forces that shape us: coincidence, desire, fear, and the quiet pull of the unknown.
With wit, tenderness, and a sharp eye for human nature, Knight’s characters stumble, strive, and soar—offering glimpses into the hidden corners of daily life.
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Banjo Flats by Mona Knight
ISBN: 978-1-926448-22-0
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She’s called Fortune, orphaned at the age of thirteen and disguised as a boy in order to survive and fit in with the other drifters and dusters. Her mother taught her to read and write. Her father taught her to handle guns. She’s nobody’s fool and a crack shot, which lands her in a heap of trouble after killing one of the territory’s most notorious and crazed gunfighters on the day she arrives in Banjo Flats – Territory of Dakota — the most lawless town in the Wild West. It’s a place where frontier justice is mostly settled with the barrel of a rifle. Fortune didn’t come to Banjo Flats looking for trouble but it found her anyway. There’s a price on her head. Every outlaw with a gun is headed to Banjo Flats thinking they can earn some easy money by killing the girl gunslinger. They’re wrong.
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Second Chance by Mona Knight
ISBN: 978-1-926448-46-6
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Second Chance is the next adventure in The Fortune Saga series and picks up where Banjo Flats left off. Fortune returns home to Banjo Flats, in the Dakota Territory, where she earned her reputation as a ‘shoot first, ask questions later’ kind of gunfighter. She agrees to accompany the federal marshal to Deadwood to bring back a notorious outlaw, and life gets complicated when she rescues a pair of young orphaned brothers along the road. While in Deadwood she picks up the trail of a lost gold shipment and is forced to confront a dark memory from her past and settle a long-standing score with the cold-blooded Mose Horn.
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Heartbreak Rodeo
by Mona Knight
ISBN: 978-1-926448-80-0
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Heartbreak Rodeo is the third book in The Fortune Saga series. The year is 1874. Fortune is now Deputy
Marshall in Banjo Flats, Dakota Territory. The circus is in town and a gypsy fortune teller warns her that a stranger is on his way to find her. That same day, a man does ride into town. His name is Tristan Roy. He arrives in Banjo Flats with two companions, one a Métis scout, the other a confederate soldier who cannot speak. Fortune knows, without asking, that Tristan is her long-lost twin brother.
Tristan, who was adopted by a family in Upper Canada, was brought up in affluence and privilege. He learned about Fortune from an old poster advertising her as a gunfighter, and he is intent on learning more about her and his family’s roots. In spite of their biological connection, their lives arc worlds apart and they struggle to get along.
As it happens, Tristan is not the man the gypsy warned Fortune about. It is another stranger who arrives in Banjo Flats. A truly dangerous man known as ‘The Horseman’, he is a deranged preacher whose mission is to kill Fortune at any cost.
Tristan becomes involved in Fortune’s fight against ‘The Horseman’ and through this and other perilous situations, they are compelled to join forces. They slowly begin to understand that, although their lives arc worlds apart, their hearts arc one.
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