"The peace that cousins Niz and Lia McGregor had hoped to find by each coming back to live in their old home town, could well be compromised with the arrival of young Dallisse, Niz's granddaughter, for an extended stay. Ex-resident Finnbarr Reilly's visit...

"A dangerous, volatile rebel, hands stained bloodred. A woman whose very existence has been erased.A love story so dark it may shatter the world itself.A deadly price that must be paid.The day of reckoning is here.From 'the alpha author of paranormal romance'...

"To wed her, he'd do anything. Even lose his heart! When Alaric Redhaven is shipwrecked on the Isle of Claddach in the Irish Sea, he finds himself attending a most unusual house party. The Earl of Claddach is holding a set of trials to discover a worthy man to...

Amidst the turmoil of World War II, Moira finds herself in the rolling hills and hard work of the Women's Land Army. Known for her carefree spirit, Moira lives by the mantra "life is too short not to have fun." But beneath her light-hearted facade lies a...

"When Leila moves to Samoa, all she wants is a family, a place to belong. Instead she discovers the local ancient myths of the telesa spirit women are more than just scary stories. The more she finds out about her heritage, the more sinister her new home turns...

"In 1553 Catherine lives in Coity Castle in Wales. She is a young girl, well looked after, highly educated but has no family and no knowledge of her background. The same year, a young Maori girl, Mihingarangi undertakes a long walk across an island off the...

"Family feuds, ghosts with amnesia, and fatal lies! No one, including Jess, had any idea she was an exceptional witch. Until she began solving crimes using her senses. The trouble is, she'd rather be waving a spatula than a wand and her snarky cat familiar...

"Ai’shah, and her favourite professor, Dr. Cassandra, are kidnapped in Dubai and taken on a terrifying journey into the heart of the Taliban, just two years after 9/11. While in Quetta in Pakistan, their strength, character and loyalty are put to the ultimate...

"The light of the beacons must be lit. The Season of Strife is upon us. In Wilde Grove, Morghan knows that things must change to meet the challenges laid down by the Goddess and the Queen of the Fae. The threats to the earth, with war and climate change, are...

How awesome would it be to figure out for yourself how time travel really works? Go back 5 minutes or 80 years and play with time like it's a video game! John does precisely that, when he accidentally enters into an existence with friends and foes both old and...

"It is New Zealand, and the first decade of the twentieth century. Katherine McKechnie is struggling to raise two children following the death of her husband, when a chance encounter with a Chinese shopkeeper blossoms into friendship and, eventually, love....

Dennis is released from Guantanamo Bay, thanks to some New Zealand pressure. Joe Farouki, his only prison friend, persuades Dennis to go see London in the aftermath of the recent EMP bomb attack on the way to recover Dennis's precious boat. Things don't turn...

"Dennis Bogdanovich buys a glass-bottomed boat in Russia to start a tourist business in New Zealand. His Russian cousin, Sergey, offers to transport it to Amsterdam in his friend Zaheed's truck. Bad idea, as already on board the truck are the essential parts...

When Marg and her husband, Norm, moved from their farm in Southland to run a menswear shop in central Queenstown, they found the two to be vastly different experiences. After all, the needs of customers were very different to the needs of sheep!

"They say we're the Paradise Generation. No more wars or plagues or rapid sea rise. Nothing bad is supposed to happen to us. But it does. When Kieran was twelve, he crashed a "liberated" car deep in the suburban wilds. The accident left his cousin Lucas in...

Forbidden Fiji nights with her rival: Trauma surgeon Della has a love-hate relationship with her work rival and brother's best friend, Harvey. Three years ago, fresh from a messy divorce, she recklessly succumbed to the uncontainable need they shared. Then...

1943 - Winton, Southland, New Zealand Marine Randolph Harrington, the charismatic and handsome saxophonist of a visiting United States Marines jazz band, is found murdered by the banks of the Oreti River. Detective Inspector John MacBride is about to retire,...

New Zealand vet Samantha accepts a job in small town Southland after graduation. She wants to be thrown in the deep end and experience all life has to offer before heading overseas. Could life be any better? She has her career, her friends and her fiance. His...

"James Ballard is a recently bereaved single father to a baby daughter, and a medical editor tasked with saving the 'third oldest medical journal in the world', the Royal London Journal of Medicine, from the mistakes no one else notices - the misplaced...

Christmas trees decked with fairy lights twinkle in every window, carollers fill the streets, and charity worker Hannah is gearing up for the season of giving in the little Irish village. But it's not just the cold winter winds that are chilling her spirits...

"A Life changing confession...Single mum and Paramedic Fiona Murchison has made it her mission to protect her little boy. Her husband was a daredevil, a risk taker, with his life played out in front of the camera. But when he died, she vowed to keep her son...

"What Happens on the Night Shift...Helicopter paramedic Tama James isn't afraid of hard work, danger or putting his patients first. And he expects nothing less from his team. But when his newest recruit arrives, the bubbly and beautiful Mikayla Elliot, he's...

The books of the Power Moore Investigation Tales series are standalone stories and can be read in any order. Fiona Thompson - better known as Flo to everyone who knew her - took a plunge and stepped out of her comfort zone and into the world of online dating....

"When one night produces a horrific number of deaths in a town where violent crime is almost non-existent, it captures the attention of the nation. Masses of deceased are found in their beds, in their vehicles, and in public places. At first, it's surprising...

"After a suspicious gas explosion wakes a usually peaceful community, what is left of the home reveals the charred remains of Bob Masters, a hospital orderly who has a solid reputation as someone good-hearted and caring. When fire scene investigators confirm...

A stunning new collection of short stories from master storyteller Owen Marshall. 'So much is chance, don't you think?' Accidental meetings, unexpected turns in the road, job offers that take you into new territories- our lives seem arbitrary and...

"This story begins in a future beyond the apocalypse, in the year 2082 AD/CE by our calendar, Mill 40 in what will be the Millennial calendar. A married couple, Jonathan and Sarah, live a simple though challenging life in a world that has been through...

"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...

"Wedding singer blues, one deadly kiss, and a cake fatality! Excited to finally wed her childhood sweetheart, Maddie's plans for the day suddenly take a horrible turn when a body is found in the most unlikely place. This spectacular whodunnit has Maddie, Big...

"Sue Michell grew up on an apple orchard in Nelson, New Zealand. After her first volunteering experience as a school-leaver in East Malaysia with VSA, she completed a secondary teacher’s degree, and later became an early childhood teacher and lecturer in early...

"Kartik Popat breezes through his teenage years despite having no friends. He has no time for his fellow Indians or immigrants. He wants to earn money, without doing any work. He dreams of being a filmmaker, but ends up working at Parliament, racing through...

"In 1942, a group of young women arrive in Cairo, Egypt. The Tuis, named after the beautiful New Zealand songbird, are the first women from their country to serve overseas. They are to provide respite and a touch of home to weary soldiers returning from the...

"Betrayed. My best friend, my right hand, the man I trusted above all others. Zayden de Rosa declared his love for me and pursued me until he shattered the walls between us. Then the man who loved me proved to be a traitor. I never saw that coming.Abandoned.My...

"Fast-paced and compelling, this contemporary legal drama, set in Otautahi Christchurch, follows child advocacy lawyer Rebecca Eaton as she navigates her work representing a surrogate mother and advising on a child endangerment case, as well as trials in her...

"Pretty Ugly by Kirsty Gunn is the inaugural title in a new series of short story collections from Landfall Tauraka and Otago University Press, celebrating the art of short fiction in Aotearoa New Zealand. Contradictions, misunderstandings, oppositions,...

"We assume we can spot a psychopath from across the room... Nineteen years ago, Ruth-Anne Baker's childhood friend was murdered by convicted killer, Ethan Oswald. With Oswald dead and the case closed, everybody tells Ruth it's time to move on - but she...

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....

"Two against twenty-six? Seems like unfair odds." I quirked a brow. "Maybe we should do it blindfolded." Five years ago, I made a choice that I haven't regretted a day since. I protected the single most important person in my world: my little sister. I...

"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...

"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...

"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)....

"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...

"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...