An accident erased Lark Edwards's memory of the night in Rome that left her pregnant. Returning to Italy for work, Lark meets captivating tycoon Cesare Donati for the first time--but he seems intimately familiar with her...Scarred by his childhood, Cesare has...

"After a nerve-racking investigation, Professor Eustacia Rose's life is returning to normal. She is finally back teaching at UCL and her relationship with Matilde is blossoming. But when a man is found dead with a needle in his neck, and a disturbing painting...

"Antonio Gotti's murder on the peaceful island of Vallecula seems to solve itself as the attackers readily confess their guilt and point the finger of blame for the plot squarely at his young widow. After a trial where the Chief Justice suspiciously appears to...

"I'd travel with Mami Suzuki anywhere in Japan." -Naomi Hirahara, author, Clark and Division Single mother and straight-talking private eye Mami Suzuki takes cases the Kobe police have little time for and proves that quick wits and compassion solve mysteries...

"I wasn't fighting this war with Chase alone. I never had been, with Zed at my back. But this time I also had Cass and Lucas, and damn if we weren't a force to be reckoned with. They say to keep your enemies close, and mine are all around me. At the heart of...

Falling for her forbidden flatmate: To escape her abusive ex-husband, midwife Grace will move to the other side of the world. Even if it means sharing an apartment with her best friend's brother. Yet while obstetrician Jock's cheeky charm and boy next door'...

"This is a novel about ordinary things - about working in a library and living in Aro Street, about three teenage daughteers and schoolboy sons, about long-divorced husbands and men who (after all) don't become lovers. And it is the story of what happens under...

"It's 1818 on the East Coast of Te Ika-a-Māui, New Zealand. Hine-aute, granddaughter of the legendary warrior Kaitanga, is fleeing through the bush, a precious yet gruesome memento contained in her fishing net. What follows is a gripping tale of a people on...

The most comprehensive selection of Janet Frame's stories ever published, this exceptional collection has been chosen from the four different volumes released during her lifetime. Featuring the best of her stories, the book includes pieces that were written...

"Sentenced to exile by his home world, he's hungry for revenge. Only he isn't innocent and Alliance space is no safe haven. When off-worlders promise Seolta den Coille revenge against those who helped falsely imprison him, he grabs hold with both fists. Not...

"Fix your planet or we'll do it for you, warns the Alliance - and take your home world from you. All Ethan Winter ever wanted was to run his family's solar energy business. But that business has been attacked, he's been imprisoned and brutalised, his planet...

"Two ecological engineers must change their world to save it. Eons ago, ecological engineers like Caleb and Fee designed their world. But even the best designs wear out eventually. Now, Arcadia is threatened with environmental collapse, and only the men and...

Poorhara is the story of nineteen-year-old Erin, her older cousin Star/Whetu and an impromptu road trip taken over a few days. With the demands and heartbreaks of whanau, poverty and trauma nipping at their heels, Erin and Star trace the path back their...

"It's time. Mary, an ex cop, and her husband, retired librarian Pete, have decided to move into a retirement village. They aren't falling apart, but they're watching each other - Pete with his tachcychardia and bad hip, Mary with her ankle and knee. Selling...

A spicy love letter to unmasking and unleashing feminine rage. Sylvie Hart doesn't want much in life. A steady income and an apartment out of the slums of Erus would do. But when her two alluring and dangerously sexy bosses claim she is theirs, sworn by fate...

"In Auē eight-year-old Ārama was taken by his brother,Taukiri, to live with Kat and Stu at the farm in Kaikōura, setting in train the tragedy that unfolded. Ārama's aunty Kat was at the centre of events, but silenced by abuse hervoice was absent from the...

"Can one woman stop the power of Rome breaking through the thin veneer of time? With treasure hunters and archaeologists rushing to claim the ancient secrets buried beneath her land, Lillian's plans for Ithaca Farm have been thwarted at every turn. Looming in...

Determined to save he antiques store she inherited from ruin after the unexplained disappearance of her parents, Sarah Lester discovers a jumbled collection of vintage postcards which lead her on a journey through time. Unprepared for the story the postcards...

"When art appraiser Anita Cassatt is sent to catalogue the extensive collection of reclusive artist Leo Kubin, it isn't only the chilly atmosphere of the secluded house making her shiver. Upon entering the house, Anita stands before a silent audience of...

"Eve Sylvester is young and broke and needs a job fast. After years of foster homes, backpacking and a sailing trip across the Pacific Ocean, she has lost contact with friends and family. She is alone, desperate - and pregnant. Then she meets Julia and...

"Betrayal. Fractured relationships. Homicides. They're part of Rebecca Cashmore's daily fare as a legal and media highflyer. The dramas are kept at a safe, psychological distance as she pursues justice for victims through the courts and her television program....

When human remains are found deep in an Irish peat bog, the National Museum of Ireland takes charge and their bog body specialist, Carrie O'Neill, begins to investigate. She notices unexpected features on this well-preserved body and later tests suggest an...

"War or peace. It doesn't matter. There is always an enemy, and Jacquel des Trurains of the planet Hathe knows all about enemies. He's just spent years undercover battling the Terran invaders of his home world. Now the war is over and the Terrans routed, but...

"Five long years ago, the Terrans invaded Hathe and life on a once peaceful and wealthy world changed forever. Major Hamon Radcliff is one of those Terrans. He does what he can to mitigate the brutality against the Hathians yet knows their occupation must...

"Jess Báre moved to the Emerald Isle to chase fairy tales. But when one takes her to an isolated farm in the clover-covered countryside, will she find the happy ending she's been searching for? Or are some tales best left untold? Pursuing her dream life in...

"A difficult police investigation awaits Inspector Roderick Alleyn when the prime suspect in the case of a murdered model turns out to be the woman he loves"--Publisher's description.

"On her first day back from maternity leave, Detective Sam Shephard is thrown straight into a cold-case investigation – the unsolved murder of a highly respected Anglican Priest in Dunedin. The case has been a thorn in the side of the Police hierarchy, and for...

"Something scary is happening in Cozy Hollow! Tasked with cataloging an important citizen's family treasures, Violet Finch is finally following her dreams of assessing antiques and books. When items go missing, Violet is intrigued by the surrounding mystery....

"After the suspicious death of his mate, Alaric Dafydd Beaumont, King of the Western Lands resigned himself to a future as bleak and isolated as his Welsh Marches castle. But his world keeps unraveling: the soulless outcast controlling the Eastern throne...

"If you insist on coming to my court, you are mine until you leave. The only reason the winged Earth Lord Mica agreed to let the insidious human accompany the elemental girl sent to his court for training was desperation. He fell for Ra's charm and seduction...

Sarah wakes up one morning feeling that something big, something irrevocable has happened. To the small island community of Black Crag, it seems as though the rest of the world has gone to sleep, aeroplanes no longer criss-cross the sky, the radios have gone...

"The Edge of the Alphabet is a novel written by Janet Frame. The story follows the life of a young woman named Alice who is struggling to find her place in the world. Alice has always felt like an outsider, and she is constantly searching for something to fill...

"A dream wedding in Italy? It's the chance of a lifetime! Skye has been with Tim forever and the last thing she's thinking about is saying 'I do'. It's Tim that enters the dream wedding competition - he's longing to win an all-expenses-paid trip to romantic...

"If self-made billionaire Zane deMarco can go from one-date wonder to one-woman man this summer, he'll acquire and dissolve the company that destroyed his childhood. Employee Skylar Bennet could be his final chess piece... Innocent Skylar will help Zane win...

Therapy pup to heal the surgeon / Alison Roberts - His emotions are on a tight leash...When paediatric surgeon Hugh meets nurse Molly and her therapy pup, 'Dogtor' Oreo, neither makes a good impression! Focussed Hugh does not appreciate distractions in his...

Detective Sebastian Clifford and his partner Lucinda ‘Birdie’ Bird are about to embark on their most challenging case yet when Lady Angelica Charing tasks them with finding the son she secretly gave away when she was only sixteen. Time's running out. This...

A trail of secrets. A dangerous discovery. A deadly turn. Police officer Sebastian Clifford never planned on becoming a private investigator. But when a scandal leads to the disbandment of his London-based special squad, he finds himself out of a job. That is,...

"DI Nyree Bradshaw and her team have their work cut out for them once again. Local woman Lizzy Bean has been found dead, garrotted with a piece of wire. Lizzy's property, a 1970s beach house overlooking a pristine Northland bay, is overflowing with ribbish....

"A champion of regenerative farming is brutally murdered. An intensive dairying advocate has shot himself. What is going on in this peaceful rural community? Lauren Fraser, visiting South Canterbury, puts herself in danger as she begins to unravel the tangle...

"Colonial Auckland, New Zealand 1870. After barely surviving an ill-planned attempt to infiltrate an Irish Fenian group in the Thames Goldfields, Sergeant Patrick Kelly finds himself in disgrace with his superiors and fighting for his job. When Prince Alfred,...

"It's the perfect catering job for The Cozy Café. Except for the body! Wanting to put the café firmly on the map, Scarlett didn't imagine things would go so horribly wrong when she took the job at the last minute. Along with her sisters, she's once more...

"From the bestselling author of The Bone Tree comes a lively and playful bilingual collection of stories about growing up in Patea. Interlinked and full of recurring characters, these stories are about growing up in small-town Aotearoa--sneaking away during...

"Oak Tree Lodge is a classy inner-city boarding house with just four guest rooms. But there is nothing classy about Leo Murdoch, the proprietor, who lives upstairs and spies on his guests. Covid-19 is sweeping the world, and the country is hours from...

Love, murder, and deceit at the opera--in Paris, even the ghosts have to play their parts. Betrayed by my family, abandoned by my boyfriend, and on the ghost police's black list--I've hit rock bottom. To escape GoPol, I have to pretend I've lost my ability to...

Aunty Rangi is the Scrooge character in a hilarious and poignant story based on Charles Dickens 'A Christmas Carol'. After thirty years of schmoozing to keep her Te Kohanga Reo language school afloat, Aunty Rangi is over it. The grind of life has made her a...

"'She's had my son...and this is the first I've heard about it.' Too busy serving the rich and famous to even think about romance, waitress Talia Parrish has never so much as kissed a man...until she meets obscenely gorgeous Dain Anzelotti. Their oh-so-brief...

"Marry her enemy or lose everything... When Alice first met Spanish duke Sebastian Castellano, the fiery attraction between them was instant, forbidden and unequivocally ignored - he was her brother-in-law. Then Alice's husband and sister were killed in a car...

"Every Who down in Who-ville likes Christmas a lot... but Heathcliff, the surly bookstore owner and fictional bad-boy, does NOT! Luckily, Mina Wilde loves him anyway, as well as her two other literary boyfriends -- the 'Napolean of Crime,' James Moriarty, and...

Lady Beaumont's Daring Proposition : A proposition so scandalous...even the wild Viscount will be shocked!Lady Emily Beaumont has buried herself away from Society after being deceived by a rake so disastrously in the past. When she encounters the devilish...

Don't get killed on Devil's Night. I thought I was close to figuring out the truth about the mysterious death of my roommate. But Blackfriars University still holds her secrets close. In the name of the Father... Father Sebastian Pearce - my priest, my...

"The Burke and Hare ‘anatomy murders’ of 1828 terrify Edinburgh, until Burke is hanged and Hare disappears. Over a decade later, in the early days of New Zealand colonial settlement, a whaler washes up on the eastern shores of Port Nicholson. He calls himself...

"An isolated farm in the Rangitikei, a far-away country of escape, and a crime of passion. This early colonial plot is made up of unintended consequences and deliberate actions - of people striving to make a home in the new colony. Characters search for a...

From the author of Kings of Miskatonic Prep, the Amazon top-20 bestselling bully romance series, comes this chilling new dark reverse harem romance. Ivan, Titus, Dorien. These Bad Boys of Baroque may play like angels, but they're determined to make my life...

"Murder is bad for business, especially when the hot local crime writer is garrotted between the shelves! With grudging permission from Heathcliff, Mina Wilde has transformed Nevermore Bookshop. She's running author events, hosting Quoth's art show, and using...

"Ranger Cal Nyx works alone in the vast NSW bush reserves but is pulled away from the quiet and solitude by a coded message that only one other person could understand. Dif, the only remaining link to her family, is in danger. He's also the last person the...

"I am Mackenzie Country born and bred. Farming the high country runs in my blood, like my father, and his father, and my great grandfather before him. My future has been mapped out for me since the day I was born. Or at least it was, until Liam Skelton walks...

"Belinda Wu is in trouble. She's just one bad day away from losing Bewitching Bites bakery, the business she built from scratch. The 80-hour weeks, the assistant who can't bake, and the constant stress are taking a toll on her health. And on top of it all,...

"The first complete edition of this NZ social satire, with an introduction and annotations that detail the colourful life of the author and contextualise the novel amid the flood of utopian writing occasioned by Edward Bellamy's Looking backward (1888)....

Cli-fi writer and climate activist Bella Goodfellow wants to save the world, but how can she do that when she can't even save herself? Forced from her hideaway after a landslide swallows it whole, she finds temporary accommodation with her publisher's elderly...

The Mess We Made is an addictive will-they-won't-they debut love story about whether there can ever be a second chance for your first love. Quin and Henry meet as kids and quickly become inseparable... They are high-school sweethearts until one night, one bad...

"In 1990 at the height of the Trujillo massacres, war correspondent Sebastian Smith flees to Colombia with an unbearable secret - he is no longer the silent witness. 'Adopted' by a resourceful but dangerous survivor of the Khmer Rouge in Phnom Penh, Smith...

"Rival ornithologists hunt through England for a rare magical bird in this historical-fantasy rom-com reminiscent of Indiana Jones but with manners, tea, and helicopter parasols. Beth Pickering is on the verge of finally capturing the rare deathwhistler bird...

"Daughter of two ruthless high-Gradient telepaths, Auden Scott is not the child her Psy parents wanted or expected, even before her brain injury. The only thing she knows for certain is that she must protect her unborn baby... a baby she has no recollection of...

"He's fire and brimstone. I'm shattered ice. I'll gladly burn beneath him until the world comes crumbling down. As an assassin for the rebellion, Raeve’s job is to complete orders and never get caught. When a rival bounty hunter shatters her world, Raeve finds...

"Maxine has been losing things lately. Her car in the shopping centre carpark. Important work files-and her job as a result. Her marbles? 'Mild cognitive impairment', according to the doctor. Time for a nursing home, according to her daughter, Rose. Rose has...

"A young girl, Una, is brought up by the High Priestess of a Druid splinter group. She has to work hard and never has enough to eat. When she is expelled from the group due to her tardiness at meetings as required by the High Priestess, she has nowhere to go....

"Livia Denby is on trial for attempted murder. The jury has reached a verdict. Two years earlier, Livia was a probation officer in Yorkshire, her husband Scott a teacher. Their children, Heidi and Noah, rounded out a happy family, until the day Scott's brother...

"Passion, power, betrayal and love, Octavian's Light is a compelling saga set in the most brutal of Roman times. Oline's life is shattered when her home village in Gaul is raided by Romans, and her daughter Mischella is born into slavery in Italy. Octavian is...

"When a mystery parcel arrives at Sherlock Tomes bookshop in small-town Havelock North, New Zealand, husband-and-wife owners Garth and Eloise (and their petrified pooch, Stevie) are drawn into the baffling case of a decades-old missing schoolgirl. Intrigued by...

"Upon discovering her partner, Ben Reynolds is missing former espionage officer Veronica Tracey (Ronnie), delves into Ben's recent past, searching for clues. She recruits Dave Crocker (Crockett) to help her locate Ben. Even with her special skills and...

"In the world of Myrtlewood, magic isn't just a myth—it's a birthright. It's Christmas eve and Delia's family is finally together again. All is quiet and still, and yet can't help but feel a sense of foreboding. After all, an ancient dragon has just awakened...

"Delia's discovery of her magic and its link with the legendary Myrtlewood Crones has thrown her already tumultuous life into further disarray. After unlocking the first stage of their ancient powers, she and the other crones—Ingrid, Marjie, and Agatha—find...

"Why don't more 60-something-year-olds get to have fun fantasy adventures? Delia Spark is caught in a maelstrom. Her former life as London theatre director is on the brink of implosion amid a scandalous divorce, a tarnished reputation, and, for reasons she...

"As the winter solstice approaches in Myrtlewood, the Yuletide festivities are in underway, but the cheer is overshadowed by mysterious winter deaths. Athena and Rosemary must embark on a perilous journey to the Underworld. Along the way, they uncover clues...

"As the leaves fall and the fog thickens, the town of Myrtlewood prepares for the annual Samhain festival. But this year, something is different. The chill in the air is not just from the frost, but from a deeper magic, an ancient magic that has lain dormant...

"The autumn equinox is drawing near and the mystical town of Myrtlewood is plunged into a spellbinding adventure. Rosemary's chocolate shop is thriving with the help of Papa Jack, but it isn't long before town is under attack by mysterious swampy monsters, and...

"In the lead-up to the Lughnasa festival, trouble is brewing in Bermuda... Rosemary has her hands full with the launch of her much anticipated magical chocolate shop. She's enjoying the peace and quiet of Myrtlewood and the last thing she wants to do is get...

Three women give birth in different countries and different decades. In the near future, they become neighbours in a coastal town in Aotearoa New Zealand. Single parent Keri has her hands full with four-year-old tearaway Walty and teen Wairere, a strange and...

"Whoever invented love at first sight should have left instructions for what to do when it only strikes one of you… …is all Ava Durant can think as she watches the man of her dreams from across the room at her brother’s wedding. Handyman Cam Hollander takes...

"Ellie never expected to see him again. Two years after the Unravelling revealed monsters and their hidden realm to the world, garden designer Ellie Harding seems to have her life together, living out her cottagecore dreams on the picturesque island of...

"Everyone wants to be Millie Harper. Jet setting all around the world with her four best friends, Millie lives the most enviable lifestyle as a flight attendant for Viper Airlines. But one thing is missing from Millie’s lavish a man to share it with. Millie’s...

"Meet Mareikura Pohe: she's in love with her best friend Eru, who is leaving to go on a church mission, and she's an accidental activist - becoming an online sensation after her speech goes viral. But does she really want the spotlight? Navigating...

Could the guy she loves to hate turn out to be her perfect pairing? If Shelby Armstrong wants to keep her late father's beloved Flora Valley Wines in business, she'll have to listen to Nathan Durant's advice. But given the fact that Shelby is all heart and...

"Sometimes touching, sometimes troubling, these adventures introduce us to women who don’t stand still: scandalous women, runaway women, daring women. From a teenage fugitive seeking safety in an Auckland strip club to a biologist on her way to Moeraki to...

"Poor Little Crick, he is a penniless orphan cast upon the cruel world of 19th Century Kirkshire, with the face - no less - of a pretty girl. Yet he is cunning, he has a fire in his belly, and he has the wiles to become anyone he pleases: a swooning lady in a...

"As the Summer Solstice approaches, celestial magic is afoot in Myrtlewood… Rosemary and Athena’s lives are thrown as the big Summer Solstice festival brings a series of mysterious events. Rosemary’s chocolate shop plans are being waylaid by strange...

"This novel depicts a journey of awakening and self-discovery. Emerging from a traumatic past, Sofia is unexpectedly chosen to embark on an epic one-year adventure from a mystery school, where she goes through life-changing realisations. Among many other...

"'Scarlett's passion is the Cozy Café. But it has problems -- big problems! Thwarted by deadly gossip and the power hungry mayor, Scarlett's determined to turn things around and give her family a better life. But when a murder in Cozy Hollow points to the café...

"Helena Statham never imagined herself as a sleuth. But when she stumbles upon the body of a young woman while on a walk, she can't resist the urge to discover who she was and how she got there. Even if it means upsetting the tight-knit community of the small...

"Dot and Ben were born in the 1920's, lived and fought in WW2 and their story continues until 2014. What was their day to day life like? Did their love survive? "Once Hitler is defeated, my proper life will begin. I will travel the world, have adventures,...

"Isaac Newton was a man driven by a passion to unlock the secrets of the universe. But those were God's secrets, and in the 1660s, England was a dangerous place for a young scholar who dared to challenge God's supremacy - a world that also believed in the...