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Longing for a new life in the country, former television executive Lizzie Harrington settles on the vineyard south of Blackpeak Station, bringing with her some glamorous guests - none more so than the dazzling actor Richard Bourne, who Lizzie has been having a secret love affair with for years. But in the hills beyond Lizzie's boundary fence lives a very different sort of man. Could one unforgettable encounter be about to change her life?

Four generations of the Black family have farmed Blackpeak Station in the high country of New Zealand’s South Island. Next in line, or so she believes, is Charlotte Black, stubborn as rock and unbiddable as the weather. Standing in her way are 150 years of tradition, an older brother and a father who believes that daughters should run families, not farms. But when circumstances suddenly change, Charlotte will have to be as tough as the mountains spanning the farm’s borders if she is to achieve her childhood dream of running and owning the family property.

Saffron vowed to love Miles no matter what life threw at them both. But when her mother-in-law moves into their happy family home, Saffron’s shiny life begins to tarnish. Even as Caprice’s barbed comments turn to something more sinister, Saffron hopes the new nanny’s arrival will shield her from the worst of it. She’s starting to feel paranoid in her own home.

They say you can never go home. They don't tell you that it's because the people you left behind split time itself into a million glittering shards, trying to figure out where you went. In the final book of the Monster Girlfriend trilogy, Sian and Trillin return to where it all began. . . . kind of.

Novella set in the Portals of Yahweh universe. A stone-age girl is stolen in a raid from her first family, made a daughter then sold by her second family to the mythical star-faring Earthlings. Strength of character and good fortune will take her further than human eyes can see on a cold winter's night. Her destiny will be written in the stars. Her first love is also taken but by alien slavers. Slavers who will find out about First Valley warriors and what it means to rain havoc. Among the stars and strange new worlds who will these stone-age youths become?

We too often realize what we want only after it’s gone. In 1906 Montreal, Elie Rutherford dreams not of marriage, but of science. She longs to join the groundbreaking physics lab led by her father, the legendary Ernest Rutherford, at McGill University. But in an era confines women to domestic roles and separate classrooms, Elie finds herself trapped by societal expectations. Determined to follow her passion, she refuses to accept a marriage proposal that could shackle her ambition forever.

Carmine Luedke, a shy, narcoleptic bookkeeper hides from the world and comforts himself by reciting arcane mathematical equations and proofs. Unable to stay awake during the day, he works through the night balancing the books. But suddenly, the numbers aren’t adding up….One fateful night, an unexpected and shocking reunion with a long-lost friend he believed to be dead sends shockwaves through Carmine's carefully crafted routine. She arrives with an urgent plea and vanishes into thin air, leaving him with more questions than answers.