Manhattan Marriage Reunion by JC Harroway: The doctor's plan? Win back his wife! Neonatal heart surgeon Harper has accepted a job at the same Manhattan Memorial Hospital as her ex-husband, but that doesn't mean she wants a reconciliation. Letting go of their...

A widow to defy the duke / Eva Shepherd. She'll share the Duke's bed...but she won't be his wife! Growing up believing he was the illegitimate son of a duke, Isaac Radcliff is shocked to discover his late parents had been married - and he's the new Duke of...

"Geography professors in a failed marriage of convenience inconveniently reconnect for an emergency mission in this swoony yet cosy historical-fantasy rom-com. Professor Elodie Tarrant is an expert in magic disasters. Nothing fazes her-except her own personal...

"Argentina, 1939: "My darling Valentina, I beg you to not go through with this marriage. I know your duty to your family means the world to you, but I pray our love means more. Let us run away together, and never be parted again..." London, Present day. Rose...

"The truth of Jason's heritage haunts him. He has the power to decide the future of humanity, but something draws him instead to the past, where only ghosts await him. Meanwhile, the war between the Storm and the Watchers rages on. When enemies join forces,...

"When the past collides with the present, everyone's secrets are at risk-including the dead's.The ghosts of Paris are gathering for a once-in-an-afterlifetime event: a recreation of the 1889 World Fair, hosted by none other than Gustave Eiffel himself. The...

"Sydney, 1871. Twenty-five-year-old widow Tatty Crowe is the owner of busy undertaking firm Crowe Funerals. Life and business are good until Tatty notices how many women are dying after unlawful abortions, and after a terrible tragedy strikes close to home,...

"Paige Beckett has blown it this time. The whole world just watched her bail on her reality TV fiance. It's humiliating. As a doctor, she's supposed to be smarter than this. Yet no matter how hard she tries, she keeps disappointing people. Now she's in hiding...

A one-night baby...Type-A event planner Stella Warren has known from childhood she can't count on anyone but herself. Arriving on the tropical island of Avali, she has only one thing on her mind - giving her best friend the wedding of a lifetime. But when she...

"Rugby league player Zac Fearon wants one thing - a quiet life. Kind of difficult when his sister has just dropped her two kids on his doorstep and disappeared into the ether. Not that the kids don't love his grumpy uncle vibe, but he's way out of his depth...

"Pro rugby league player Finn Chalmers seems like he has it all - money, brains, good looks. But there's one thing the man they call 'Charming' can't get - and that's the attention of his best friend and unrequited love Cara Holt. When a stalker targets Cara,...

"A princess on the run...Oliana is sick of being the perfect Pacific daughter. Right before she takes up royal duties, she hops a plane to the other side of the world. She knows that if she ever wants to experience freedom, it has to happen now. Armed with a...

"He needs a win...Prince Manu of Avali has one goal - to secure a championship that will honour his late friend. Too bad he's stuck in the worst team in the league. He's got a plan though - finish the season, reestablish his reputation as a great player, and...

After the accident, the whole world is against Tim. Everything he touches turns to dirt. Now at 40, he's homeless, broke, and only has one place to drink. It feels like the only way up is further down. When Tim receives a random text message from his uncle,...

"Boys of the Southern Cross is a semi-historical novel about the Boer War 1899-1902, the combatants from the British Empire and the farmers who continued a guerrilla warfare. Containing historical data about Winston Churchill, Kitchener, Baden-Powell and...

"A tsunami has devastated a small Kapiti Coast community. The government mandates managed retreat - a decision manipulated by Adrian Stokes, a powerful businessman with an agenda of his own. A resourceful and colourful collection of villagers defy the order to...

"Marjorie Forsythe, reluctant wife and mother, has yearned for the time she can be on her own, and finally, the day has come. It is 1970s Wellington, and the city beckons her to explore a different life, where her options and choices are based on her talents...

"Cora is finally at peace. Living in beautiful Golden Bay (New Zealand) after years feeling torn between her birthplace, Spain, and New Zealand, she has found the courage to follow her dreams. But then life issues a final blow, threatening to steal her...

"Turner Corp, a luxury goods empire, has been rocked by the death of its founder. As his three sons gather at the family's opulent estate for a long weekend, tensions rise when an illegitimate heir is introduced - and no one could predict the tragedy that...

"Garth and Eloise (and Stevie) must sniff out a prolific poisoner ahead of a vital fundraising event, the Battle of the Book Clubs. As time runs out and the body count rises, it seems the bad actors are circling closer to the people and places they care about....

"A witch finds herself face to face with death as she stands at the centre of a magical rebellion and back to back with her enemies as she falls deeper into a seductive romance. Penny Albright has burned night after night to keep her soul free of Malin's...

"'Cockroach' Karl Copley, a crackhead crim with a small brain and a big mouth, convinces his former best friend Richie McMullan - now a squeaky-clean senior cop - he can help rescue Barbara 'Barbie' Konstantinou, a high school crush apparently held for ransom...

Pat Conroy's classic novel stings with honesty and resounds with drama. Spanning forty years, it's the story of turbulent Tom Wingo, his gifted and troubled twin sister, Savannah, and their struggle to triumph over the dark and tragic legacy of the...

The last few months of the moontide--when the bridge connecting East and West rises above the sea--has come, and in the West Emperor Constant prepares the final phase of his plan to conquer the East. For failed mage Alaron and his companion Ramita--widow to...

Shaliyah, birthplace of the Prophet, now has a new name: Mother of Victories. In the wake of the devastating battle before her walls, everything has changed: the East is rising, bringing equal measures of hope and despair to the magical world of Urte. For...

"The Moontide has come, and a scarlet tide of Rondian legions is flooding into the East, slaughtering and pillaging in the name of Emperor Constant. But the Scytale of Corineus, the source of ultimate magical power, has slipped through the emperor's fingers....

Most of the time the Leviathan Bridge lies deep below the sea, but every twelve years, when the tides sink and the Moontide comes, it is revealed - linking Eastern and Western continents. At first, traders went back and forth across the bridge, but then the...

"Fatima Downunder is Book Three of the journeys of Dennis Bogdanovich, sanitary engineer and keen fisherman, last seen in Book Two, Swimming with Crocodiles. Now Dennis is journeying painfully back towards New Zealand with his friend's wife, Fatima....

"In Good Faith centres on the journey of four families who migrated to New Zealand between 1840 and 1872.Sailing ships ploughed the seas between Europe and the Southern oceans during these years, bringing new people and merchandise to Australia and New...

"What's complicated about a bit of fun between two consenting adults? Abigail Fletcher finally has her life together. There's just one thing left to do: reconnect with her five-year-old daughter, Sadie, who she left three years ago, her anxiety telling her...

"What would you do if your friend sank a coal ship in the interests of saving the planet? In 2030 Christchurch, the sea is tearing off mouthfuls of land, toilets hurl their contents into houses, the council is letting suburbs fall apart, and energy quotas are...

"The Battle of Crete in May 1941 was savage and costly, and vividly described in the preceding title in the series "The Rabbit Hunter II: The Battle of Crete". The Allied forces were assailed from all sides without respite by the superbly equipped elite German...

"In the endless tracts of the New South Wales bushland Ranger Cal Nyx finds a dead body under unusual circumstances. It soon becomes apparent this is a historic death. Growing attention on the crime puts the blowtorch to a murderer who's managed to evade...

"In a future world, supplies of drinkable water are depleted, except for a few hydrospheres. A huge gulf grows between the water-rich few with watercards and water-poor scavvos. Alex is a mnemopath, a memory machine for a senior manager in water export...

"In 1838 when Mary Bumby's brother John decided to travel from England to be a missionary in New Zealand, she went with him. And she took two hives of live bees on their arduous six-month sea voyage.This story tells, in her own words, how both Mary and her...

"Laura Gilchrist has always made sensible choices. But a trip to Provence to sell an inherited stone house leads her face to face with Noah Dufour, her wild, irresistibly attractive real estate agent. And within an instant she's bewitched. Without a second...

The girl from Sarajevo: Young and self-assured immigrant Katia will do anything to become a writer. When she encounters her neighbour, an aging novelist from the old country, she embarks on an audacious plan to represent Dragan's new novel as her own....

"Paul Nichols is brought back to life and out of retirement to take down the corrupt government that originally sanctioned his murder. With the help of the United States and Mossad, can he slip into the country of his birth and carry out their audacious plan...

"An Irish immigrant has been missing from his home in Sandon, New Zealand for almost a year. And around the time he was heading home, a brutal murder took place in the bush. Was he murdered, or did he simply leave his family for another woman. Sergeant Frank...

The year is 1943, and the outcome of the war hangs in the balance. As the war in the Pacific drags on and thousands of US Marines land in New Zealand to train for more attacks, reporter Kate Hardy becomes enmeshed in a search for a group of fifth columnists...

"When Grace inherits her late father's beloved restaurant in Maiden's Cove, it feels like a lifeline. Escaping her controlling husband, she returns to her enchanting childhood hometown with her young daughter. In the magical surrounds of Maiden's Cove, where...

"Nicolette Briggs doesn't do humans. As Wellington's premier, and possibly only, animal detective, Nicolette mostly investigates missing pets and cases of animal cruelty. So when her latest client asks her to investigate a case of a poisoned cat, it seems...

"When her wealthy family prepares to host a lavish summer party, the young, hitherto sheltered Laura Sheridan suddenly feels a kinship with the staff and the helpers hired to set up the venue for the festivities. As she learns of the death of one of their...

"Samuel Butler's most critically acclaimed novel, Erewhon, or, Over the Range, is set in the fictional country of Erewhon, an anagram of "nowhere." Butler crafts a mesmerizing narrative centered around a protagonist's journey through this seemingly utopian...

A clanticle of two souls - "At the age of fourteen, Raziel finds a speaking sword, which offers the power to reclaim his homeland from the Rhotian empire. When the imperials slaughter his family, he carves a bloody path of revenge, targeting the emperor....

Often regarded as her most interesting book and set on New Zealand's North Island, Ngaio Marsh herself considered this to be her best-written novel. It was a horrible death - Maurice Questing was lured into a pool of boiling mud and left there to die. Chief...

"Madeline is on the lookout for love in her final year of university when she meets Daniel. Attractive, funny, charming, and a musician just like her. He seems to understand her in a way no one has before. Could he be everything she has ever wanted in a...

"What do we actually mean by the word haunt? In this new set of stories inspired by the term, Jack Ross invokes a series of his favourite haunts via voices from the past, beginning with Samuel Butler's Erewhon and concluding with Emanuel Swedenborg. In between...

"Anno Domini 2000; Or, Woman's Destiny (1889) is a novel by Sir Julius Vogel. Written by the former prime minister of New Zealand, the novel sold poorly upon publication. In recent years, however, the novel has been recognized as a groundbreaking work of...

The Suspect Speaker Series comprises short stories about people with aphasia, the loss of a previously held ability to speak or understand spoken or written language, due to disease or brain injury, mainly stroke. The Suspect Speaker and the More Suspect...

"Wairaka Point is a gripping narrative based on actual events. The subjects and settings are diverse: New Zealand, legal investigation, rabies, fathers, US Marines, heroic women, Maori, ambiguity, possum trapping, advertising, Zimbabwe, families, World War II,...

"The impresario Peregrine Jay has fulfilled a long-cherished dream: Thanks to a very generous gift, he now owns the Dolphin Theatre, and has restored it to its former glory. To celebrate the re-opening, a no-expenses-spared production of The Glove, a new play...

"A skeleton is unearthed in a suburban Auckland backyard. A woman disappears. A teenager is abandoned. These events change the trajectory of Tova Tan's life, which she is slowly rebuilding after her involvement in a traumatic kidnapping. Reluctantly, she...

"From this day forward - when Evie uttered those words, they were about day-to-day survival in the midst of a world war. How could she have envisaged the future that lay ahead with her Kiwi soldier in the rural Bay of Plenty after the war? A future of triumph...

"Whitebait is part science-fiction, part dystopian family drama. “Why do we have to be poor?” Lisa thought, trudging, disconsolate behind her father. “It’s just so humiliating…why can’t it be a practical joke? Why can’t Conrad suddenly emerge from the bush...

"The Serenity Centre in Cambodia was full of secrets, of skeletons, bones in the closet, things unrevealed and undisclosed. You sensed it. There was an atmosphere.The discovery of a dead body only added to the tension, and triggered in Rita painful memories of...

Berlin, 1944: Amira and Gisele have been best friends since they were children, and now Gisele is the only person who knows Amira's secret. A secret that puts her and everyone she loves in unimaginable danger amid the daily horror and violence of Nazi Germany....

"A shabby, fourth-rate theater, the Vulcan is not where Martyn Tarne hoped to work, when she moved from New Zealand to London in hope of a glittering acting career. But a girl has to eat, so Martyn takes a job as dresser to the Vulcan's leading lady. This...

"Edward Hunter is a family man with a beautiful wife and daughter, a great job, a bright future, and a very dark past. Edward's father is a man of blood. He's been in jail for twenty years and he's never coming out. Edward has struggled his entire life to put...

"John Hobson, a geneticist involved in a project concerned with manipulating DNA, awakes in his hotel room in Thames, New Zealand after a nightmare of falling from a great height. His wristwatch has stopped at 6:12. Upon getting up he finds the electricity...

"A story that wrestles with the tensions of life and faith with honesty and grace. The journeys of life have left Rev Jack McQuarrie with a metaphorical limp. Now in his autumn days, he tells of his sorrows and joys, his failures and successes, the tenderness...

"New Zealand: A Novel spans almost 500 years and covers the respective discoveries of New Zealand by Pacific Islanders and Europeans. From the outset the two stories are interposed. It starts in the 1300's with the departure of Islanders from Hawaiki in search...

"James Ericsson is an elite agent for Sentinel, an organisation that deals in counter-terrorism, espionage and special security. He thought he'd seen it all till, through a chance encounter, he meets Natalya, a woodland guide with unusual green eyes who...

"The alpacas are nervous. Accusations are flying about a rigged election, a mysterious illness is spreading, the Alpaca News is being censored by higher powers, and skullduggery is threatening the Breeders Showcase. Amidst a mass of self-interested parties, a...

"Romara Challys and her Falcons are Vestal Knights, who have shed blood to uphold the Triple Empire against the destructive Vyr Rebellion. But now, the Falcons have become the empire's enemy.Having learned that elobyne, the magical crystal that empowers the...

"In the New Zealand naval base of Devonport, Sophie Flynn's life has become alarmingly complicated. She develops a friendship with the Commodore while her husband is at sea, at the same time adopting an elderly, infirm neighbour. When her husband returns it's...

"Paris, 1939: Gazing out at the glittering skyline, Evelina clutches the letter from her love in shaking hands. "I know I do not deserve you, my darling, but I pray that you will change your mind. You have my heart, and I hope that nothing will keep us...

"In 1882, Herbert Slade, son of a Maori mother and an Irish whaler father, sailed from New Zealand to the United States to fight World Heavyweight Boxing Champion, John L. Sullivan, of Boston, the idol of sporting America. Hailed as a "Maori Collosus," Slade...

"A fabled, earth analogue paradise or a planet facing disaster?Arcadia is the most perfect Earth Analogue world in all the Alliance - a world on which plenty are eager to settle in place of the present owners if they keep abusing their world. That's what the...

It's January 1983. During his university summer break, Ryan Bradley returns to the remote town of Nashville in New Zealand's rugged King Country. It's a bittersweet trip: he's working long, punishing hours as a woolpresser, he needs to sell his late mother's...

''Will love's ups and downs be worth the ride? When Jen embarks on a scenic cycling tour in France, she never expects to have her life upended by Abi, a captivating Scottish travel writer with a magnetic personality. Their whirlwind two weeks together...

"We humans possess a powerful gift. We have the skill of malleability; the capability to Shift. The year is 323 AP. A version of Earth has created, tested, and utilized a way to shift the conscious mind to other realities. From war-torn wastelands and...

The restoration of a bombed-out London theatre ends in violent death -- and one of Marsh's most vivid and dramatic novels When the bombed-out Dolphin Theatre is given to Peregrine Jay by a mysterious wealthy patron, he is overjoyed. And when the mysterious...

The Lampreys had plenty of charm - but no cash. They all knew they were peculiar, the charades with which they entertained their guests became quite complicated. And when Uncle Gabriel Lamprey dies, Chief Detective Inspector Roderick Alleyn is called in.

Pagan revelry and morris dancing in the middle of a very cold winter set the scene for one of Ngaio Marsh's most fascinating murder mysteries. When the pesky Anna Bunz arrives at Mardian to investigate the rare survival of folk-dancing still practised there,...

"The season had begun. Debutantes and chaperones were planning their luncheons, teas, dinners, balls. And the blackmailer was planning his strategies, stalking his next victim. But Chief Detective Inspector Roderick Alleyn knew that something was up. He had...

"Sir John Phillips, the Harley Street surgeon, and his beautiful nurse Jane Harden are almost too nervous to operate. The emergency case on the table before them is the Home Secretary -- and they both have very good, personal reasons to wish him dead. Within...

New Zealand Theatrical manager Alfred Meyer wanted to celebrate his wife's birthday in style. The "piece de resistance" would be the jeroboam of champagne which would descend on to the stage after the performance. But something went horribly wrong. Was Meyer's...

It was planned as an act of charity: a new piano for the parish hall, an amusing play to finance the gift. But its execution was doomed when Miss Campanula sat down to play. A chord was struck, a shot rang out and Miss Campanula was dead. A case of sinister...

"Dreams of stardom had lured Martyn Tarne from faraway New Zealand to make the dreary, soul-destroying round of West End agents and managers in search of work. The Vulcan Theatre had been her last forlorn hope, and now, driven by sheer necessity, she was glad...

Posey Barclay's family fortune hangs by a thread, with vengeful stockholders circling like vultures. Her only hope is brilliant lawyer Silas Williams-the man she once refused to marry. But when Silas abruptly abandons her case, Posey realizes sinister forces...

A society belle. A tenacious newshound. A scandal to destroy their lives.Sydney, 1868. Poppy Barclay's privileged life shatters when her father's investment firm collapses amid shocking allegations of fraud. Jilted by her fiance and shunned by the elite, the...

Penrose & Pyke have until Christmas Eve to save the orphans' home, by unravelling a tangle of tinsel and trickery. Private detective Charlie Pyke was looking forward to spending a quiet Christmas with his fiancee, Grace Penrose. Instead, Charlie and Grace must...

"Penrose & Pyke are flung into an explosive new mystery during the campaign for women's suffrage. Politicians are worried that women voters will oust them, liquor barons are terrified that women will favour prohibition, and the man in the street fears his wife...

"Penrose & Pyke venture to the edge of madness, when they reunite to investigate two tragic deaths and an old mystery. The last words of a frightened woman may be a vital clue to the disappearance of an old friend, if they aren't the ravings of delusional...

Astronauts fight for the survival of humanity against an alien species seeking to control their future among the stars in this science-fiction thriller.They were humanity's last hope. As the majority of Earth's population uploaded their consciousnesses to...

"Freeing Grace tells the story of David, curate of an inner-city parish, and Leila, his Nigerian-born wife. Unable to have children of their own, they're desperate for a family. When they finally hear they've been approved to adopt a baby, Grace, they can...

"Roughly thrust from her realm and left to die in a forest on Earth, Faunella is left with no memory of who she is and must rely on the Fae who find her. With only the magical creatures as company, she grows up feral and sweet. But she yearns for connection...

A nation on the brink of disaster. A devastating betrayal. When an unlikely duo is called to drill deep into foreign territory, will they do or die? Cairo, 1942. SAS Sergeant "Black Jack" Hastings despises Nazis. So when he's picked for a make-or-break...

"The city is burning and panic has set in. Martial law has brought the military onto the streets to maintain law and order, but looting and violence are spreading like wildfire. Through the chaos, Gemma and Alex must try and walk to safety. Surrounded by...

"Reunited as a family, the Dobsons settle in for the long haul. Less than a week after martial law is declared, the country is falling apart fast. Crime is rampant, led by the brutal Bandits biker gang. Breaking a thousand prisoners out of jail is just the...

"He's rebuilding his life after hitting rock bottom. She's the whirlwind he can't help but fall for. Andrew's wife died in his arms. Overwhelming grief destroyed him, leading to him committing a crime during his breakdown. After three years in prison, he has...

""I can't believe I'm back in this godforsaken town." Katie Barton once swore she'd never return to the small town of Kauri Creek - the only place that's ever felt like home. But when her life falls apart and her best friend needs her help running the...

"From the bestselling author of The High Mountain Court A.K. Mulford comes the second enchanting book in the all-new Golden Court romantasy trilogy--A Sky of Emerald Stars continues wolf-shifter Calla's journey and explores a new story--Sadie's--as kingdoms...

The novel reveals why Ada has stopped speaking, the history of the piano, and the secret of Flora's conception.

"When you know a national state of emergency is coming, what do you do? After massive earthquakes rock the capital and the infrastructure begins to crumble, the Government is unable to cope. The power grid is about to collapse. Food shortages are coming. Civil...

The midwife's secret fling: Returning home from a winter night shift, all single mum and midwife Zara can think about is sleep. Only to be confronted by a naked stranger in her cottage! She immediately jumps to the wrong conclusion, before realising the hunky...