Long Valley Road
ISBN 0-9582559-4-6
This fast paced novel combines human emotions of love, empathy, revenge and greed with the sheer force of Mother Nature.
The inhabitants of Long Valley Road have their lives changed forever by the events happening around them.
Join them and see, through their eyes, how one family grows and blossoms through the good times and bad.
Julie tries to cope with a new country, Fiona
discovers she is not just a mother-in-law and a young schoolteacher and lonely widower fall in love.
But is this love strong enough to surmount the problems about to descend upon them all?
Countess in Exile
ISBN 0-9382559-2-X
In their escape from the invading
German Wehrmacht, Countess Vladisciuszko, gives her daughter a Swiss
numbered bank account card and tells her never to lose it. Moments
later the train is bombed and the countess is killed. Jozef Wishnowsky,
an airforce officer on the train, rescues Anna and manages to get her
to an airfield and onto an aeroplane flying to England.
In England, with a British identity as Anna Green, the youngster is placed
in an orphanage. She helps Sally and Johnny, two other orphans who are
victims of the sadistic supervisor Vera Johnston.
Later, Johnny, Sally and Anna are given new identities and are sent to New
Zealand with new identities as brother and sisters. Complications follow
in later years when Anna and Johnny (now called John) fall in love.The
conservative society of the 1950s charge John with incest. This leads
to Anna's aristocratic background being discovered. Polish communists
seek her out for assassination.
Can the communists be intercepted before they carry out their plan and
how does this affect Anna and her family?
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Shadows Behind
ISBN 978-1-877438-13-4
In 1999 Kosovar refugee Niana
Bolsa is abandoned in the mountains by the Serbs to fend for herself.
In freezing temperatures, she comes across a tractor
and trailer by the roadside with two terrified children hiding
there. Determined to save the children, Niana takes them and heads
for Albania. At the border she's shot. With all records destroyed,
nobody queries her right to the children and they emigrate to New
Zealand.
Matt Coleman is attracted to Niana. Eventually, friendship
between them blossoms into an abiding and passionate love as
they and Niana's foster children become a family.
But the terror so prevalent in
Niana's past surfaces again--with a vengeance. This incredibly
fast-moving story has action to thrill you as well as romantic
appeal.
Claire
ISBN 978-1-877438-05-9
The liberated 60s have not reached the shores of New Zealand when Claire, a single pregnant girl is sent up-country to have her child, which is to be adopted out.
The Sloane family are strangers who offer to board her through this time.
But are they?
Claire is thrust into the unknown when, immediately after her arrival, Alan and
Hazel Sloane are involved in a truck accident on the farm. It is up to Claire
to help. She does but is now alone on the farm. Initial fears at being alone
reach a climax when an elderly man arrives to look after the animals.
He is Bob Hodge, Hazel's father. Gradually an affinity develops between the pair.
Claire's life is at a tangent and a thread of facts begin to unwind about herself
and the family she is living with. Tragedies of the past surface and actions
of the present complicate issues.
This is a story of how scars of the past are opened and conquered by the love
of the present for and by Claire, a girl who becomes a woman in the months that
make up 1961.
Wind Across the Playground
ISBN 1-877438-04-2
Neil Johnston a young school teacher arrives to take charge
of a two teacher rural school in Otago with his partner, liberated
Lisa. She is just one of the five women who has a profound affect
on his life through the next quarter a century.
Margaret, a promiscuous farmer's wife engulfs Neil like a spider
and almost tears his relationship with Lisa apart. Yhere
is a tragedy, Kelly, the assistant teacher in the junior room and
decisions to be made. Neil matures quickly and when faced with
an ultimatum by the woman who loves him, makes a decision that
involves shifting back home to the North Island with one woman
and away from the other.
Two girls also affect his life, Wendy a pupil at his old school
and his daughter Alexia who, as a baby, unknowingly provides comfort
and love.
This is a story of a naive young man who is influenced by the
women around him, who matures, lives life to the fullest and becomes
a leader in his chosen profession.
Blemished Jewel
ISBN 0-9582702-0-1
Gail Fernhill, newly appointed
of principal of Queen Anne's Girls' School in Dunedin, New Zealand
is haunted by her past but befriends new property manager Neil
Goodall. Neil pierces her reserve to support and help her when
he discovers that as a teenager, she killed her abusive father
in self-defence.
However, the case is reopened
after the discovery of her father's rifle. Inspector Peter Carrington
attempts to build up a murder case against
Gail and directs Tania Brogan, an undercover police officer employed
by the school as a teacher, to find evidence. However, after
an accident involving a bus load of pupils on a ski trip Tania
switches her allegiance to help Gail but unwittingly plays into
Carrington's hand.
Intertwining with Gail and Neil's
growing love and the conflicts of school life, the problems deepen
when John McKendrick arrives at school and attempts to abduct
his daughter Penny. Gail and Neil intervene but Gail is wounded
and, with Neil and Penny, abducted.
Is Neil's love enough to help
the blemished jewel through these trying times?
Stretched Horizons
ISBN 0-9582614-2-3
When Sunset Grove Primary's Headteacher, Bree Ashworth goes to
help teacher Jenny Dench in her classroom she is attacked by an intruder.
The attacker escapes and Bree is taken to hospital. Her husband Colin
arrives and tells her he is leaving to move from London with his
mistress Linda Rouke.
Bree has bookings to attend a reading conference in New Zealand
over that country's summer vacation. With double tickets bought and
Colin gone, she invites Jenny to come with her.
>In New Zealand the small commuter aeroplane they fly in crashes
in thick bush country. The pilot is killed and Jenny and Bree try
to survive by themselves. However, all is not lost, for a tramper
in the bush, Ray Barnett and his dog, Pattie find them.
Police in England tell Colin, Bree has been involved in an air crash
and is missing. Colin abandons his partner and flies out to New Zealand
but his intentions are not those one would expect from a worried husband....
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Jana Adrift
ISBN 978-1-877438-08-0
When terrorists attack and sink a container ship
five passengers survive and land on a Pacific Ocean atoll. Jana
and her four companions must live together and survive. Jana and
Kelsie are passengers on a container shipon a
Pacific Ocean cruise along with artist Rowan Clardy and an elderly
couple, Hank and Denise Thorpe. The ship is attacked,
terrorists seize the ship and strip it of all communication and
electronic equipment.
The five passengers hide in an empty container
and later make it to a Pacific atoll. Problems arise when they
attempt to live together. Jana and Rowan begin a romance. Hank
is not the pleasant old guy Jana at first thought but a predator
who begins a relationship with Kelsie.
After a month the castaways attract the attention of the first boat going by
but is it a case of getting into worse danger? The fishing boat that comes
into the lagoon to rescue them is flying the North Korean flag.
Fir, Oak and Fern
ISBN 978-1-877438-02-8
< The saga of four liberal women, spanning five generations, three
continents, two world wars, and one hundred years.
The story begins in 1898 with Amanda's elopement with
her beloved Jack and her struggle to survive and prosper
away from her domineering father. The two begin a new life
in Vancouver, Canada where, over the years, she develops
a publishing empire. Her daughter, Dorothy, falls in love
with a soldier about to be charged for desertion from the
trenches in the Western Front. Will he be court-martialled
and shot? And what is the "legacy" that runs as a thread
throughout the novel?
Each generation is filled with drama, joy, and sometimes
tragedy, but vividly illustrates the determination of each
woman to enrich her life through love of partners and families
and liberal outlook on life.
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