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...
"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...
"He's trying to keep his livelihood afloat. She threatens to destroy it. Will two wild hearts finally be tamed? Hawk Lachlan will do anything to save his family's zoo. With only a year to prove that he and his siblings can handle the responsibility, the gruff...
"They're both used to temporary. Have they unexpectedly found forever? Lark Lachlan has her life under control. Although she enjoys the occasional summer fling with women, the devoted-to-her-career, bisexual zookeeper has no trouble keeping her heart in its...
"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...
"The pen is deadlier than the sword, especially when it's filled with poison. Mina Wilde is thrilled to be invited to a prestigious writers' retreat at Meddleworth House. Heathcliff, Morrie, and Quoth decide to come along to keep her company and indulge in...
"All fair in love and murder. The Shakespeare Festival has come to the village, and all of Argleton has gone bard-crazy. Mina's excited about Nevermore being the festival's official bookstore, but a rival bookshop opens up across the green and completely...
"Wedding bells are ringing at Nevermore Bookshop! Mina, Heathcliff, Morrie, and Quoth are tying the knot in an extravagant ceremony. But when someone sabotages the decorations and Heathcliff receives a threatening note, they realise that a saboteur in the...
"Was bringing three hot AF ghosts back to life a grave mistake? All I wanted to do was kiss my ghost boyfriends, but instead, I broke the Veil between the worlds of the Living and the Dead. Whoops. Now, a horde of demons and hellbeasts are after us, and if I...
"Morrie's been arrested on suspicion of murder. Mina knows the Napoleon of Crime is innocent, but how can she prove her favorite con-artist is being stitched-up? Being the spider in the center of a vast criminal web has left Morrie in hot water. His list of...
"Mina Wilde - bookstore owner, girlfriend to three of the hottest heroes of literature, and now... reluctant vampire hunter. In the sixth novel in the Nevermore Bookshop Mysteries, Mina, Heathcliff, Morrie, and Quoth face off against their ultimate enemy. Add...
"It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune will be gruesomely murdered at the ball. Mina's excited to attend the annual Argleton Jane Austen Experience at the stately Baddesley Hall. It's just what she needs...
"Join a brooding antihero, a master criminal, a cheeky raven, and a heroine with a big heart (and an even bigger book collection) in this hot new steamy reverse harem paranormal mystery series. When the local Banned Book Club lose their meeting room, Mina...
"Heartbreaker. Murderer. Dorien Valencourt is in deep shit. His cheeky grin and stormy eyes won't help him this time. But I will. I've found love in the darkness.Three broken muses possess me, Mind, body, and soul. I won't give them up for anything, Especially...
"Pretty Girls Make Graves is a dark romantic suspense and part one of the Dark Academia duet. Don't go outside on Devil's Night. I'm always the good girl. I never stand out. I follow the rules.At Blackfriars University, there's one whispered rule: Stay inside...
"Ivan, Titus, Dorien.The bad boys of Baroque, the kings of this school.They messed with the wrong girl. I'll topple them from their thrones. They made me trust them.They made me want them. Now, I'm going to haunt their asses. Even if it costs me... everything....
Addison Harper is back, and with another dead body at his feet. Only this time, the entire town saw it happen. Milverton is in the running for the Terrific Town Award, so a dramatic death at the opening ceremony is far from ideal. Addison had only been lending...
"Addison Harper is abruptly summoned to Milverton at the behest of an abrasive lawyer. He plans to be in and out, back to the city lickety-split. Instead, he finds himself charmed by the small town with its delightful and eccentric residents, not to mention...
"London, England 1869. On learning about the death of his much-loved father, Captain Austin Willems of the 67th South Hampshire Regiment of Foot returns home to discover his father was swindled by a railway company he heavily invested in. Austin learns that...
"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...
"Kurt has finished university and finds himself faced with real life: get a job, settle down... He can't think of anything worse. Yearning for a final summer of good times before the inevitable capitulation to reality, he lets himself be charmed by the...
"A body! The weapon—a car? Finger pointing and more questions than there are answers have Scarlett in a spin. With too much work and not enough hands, the last thing she needs is to take time solving this mystery, but she has to help a friend. That’s how the...
"A plea from the past can't be ignored! While her sisters fought hard to keep the cafe alive, Ruby Finch had her eye on becoming the town librarian. It took a death for that to come about which wasn’t ideal. Now she's helping her fiancé with his new diner,...
I'd rather kiss a porcupine under mistletoe than be in the same room as Charlie Cavendish. You know the guy. Super rich, a face that looks like it was chiselled by angels, and a smirk that deserves its own zip code. Charlie Cavendish, the guy I love to hate....
Can a backup plan with your best friend turn into a happily ever after? I've agreed with Asher, my fun-loving bestie, that if we're both still single at 35, we'll get hitched. Sensible plan, right? It gives me five whole years to find The One. Easy. But then I...
Phoebe Wilson is a total romantic. As in she’s read Pride and Prejudice fifty-one times, her favorite movie scene is the boombox serenade in Say Anything, and she goes to sleep every night certain that one day she’ll meet her prince and get her happily ever...
Is it a truth universally acknowledged, that a girl can humiliate herself on reality TV and still get her fairy tale ending? Emma Brady is in shock. She fell in love with Sebastian Huntington-Ross on national television, showing everyone that opposites can...
Is it a truth universally known that a girl must compete on reality TV to win Mr. Darcy's heart? Emma Brady is having doubts about how far she'll go to promote her new activewear line. Sure, being on a reality show could be the big break her business so...
"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....
"It started as a student exercise, the knife under the drape, the model's pose chalked in place. But before Agatha Troy, artist and instructor, returns to the class, the pose has been re-enacted in earnest: the model is dead"--Publisher's description.
"Arthur and Gabriel both lead busy lives, and now they've got a shotgun wedding to attend. Their first event as a couple - that is, if they last that long.Arthur's adopted grandparents have dragged him out on their mystery day trip. But the mischievous oldies...
"A gay romantic comedy novella about wading through the noise to discover what you really want. Caught in the crossfire of his chaotic flatmates' one-sided romance, and a landlady on a rampage, Gabriel is just trying to get to work on time and avoid burning...
"A gay romantic comedy novella about coming out and failing spectacularly. Arthur knows it's time he told his mates he's gay. So what's the holdup? He's wound so tight he can't get the words out - giving himself injuries, spilling his dinner, and all-round...
"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...
In a village on Naxos lies a gorgeous guest house and taverna that never opened. Cressida's husband died suddenly three years ago - the taverna was their dream - but she's been too lost in grief to keep that dream alive. Marjory "Jory" St. James, a young...
"I'm a small town girl that loves the salt air and living with the beach on my front door step. It's all I have ever known, and all I've ever wanted. Growing up with just my mom, I never knew any other family. But now my mom has gone, and left me unprotected....
"Harlow: After being taken in by a motorcycle gang in Los Angeles at the age of thirteen, I should feel safe and protected. But used at their disposal, I am wielded as a weapon against their enemies and a slave to their every order. Every part of my being is...
"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...
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...
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