Caleb's Kingdom

Following the death of her cheating fiance, journalist Greta Mountford moves to a New Zealand sheep and deer farm, while the owner is in Europe. The return of farm owner Caleb Armstrong heralds the end of her new found peace of mind. For his presence, and her attraction to him, is far too disturbing for comfort.

Design for Life

Successful New Zealander thriller writer Dane Inglethorpe is visiting Britain on an exhausting signing tour. His publisher has arranged yet another signing, this time at a famous antiques shop, Leonora's, in Surrey. Leonora is currently displaying New Zealand artifacts and has become enamoured by Dane's most recent books. Unwillingly, Dane goes to see her and is pleasantly surprised by the display, which features some excellent murals. He discovers that the artist is Leonora's granddaughter, Chloe. At lunch with Leonora, he overhears a red-headed girl reject a proposal and she storms out of the restaurant. Always the alert writer, Dane feels that this is good subject matter and notes everything down. But when he returns to the shop he is intrigued to find that the artist granddaughter is also the red-head at the restaurant. Dane asks Chloe to return to New Zealand with him to restore his pioneer home and covert his sister's house on the property into the restaurant she has dreamed of. But though he and Chloe are initially drawn to each other, Chloe is incensed when she discovers his notes on the quarrel in the restaurant back in England. Is she just being used as material for Dane's next book or does he really love her?

MacBride of Tordarroch
Veronica Blakeley's job was antiques, and when she received a letter from two old ladies somewhere up in the hills of New Zealand's South island, saying they had some for sale, she felt there might be some treasure trove, and off she went. But they had warned her that there was a dragon nephew there too, who wouldn't take kindly to the idea. And then somehow it all went wrong - and instead of doing business Veronica found herself, for the best of reasons, masquerading as the fiancee of said nephew, Dermid MacBride. And as time went by, it became more and more difficult to tell him the truth....

So Comes Tomorrow
Children's writer Brodie Nicol returns to her native New Zealand to visit her old friend Una Isbister. While driving out to Una's home Brodie finds herself in the middle of a snowstorm and seeks refuge at a nearby farmhouse - only to discover that the farm and its owner's children are being looked after by Guthrie Chisholm - her ex-fiance. Furthermore, Brodie discovers that she will not be able to leave immediately the snowstorm abates - because the farm is in quarantine. Clearly Una had known that Guthrie was staying nearby, and had planned a little matchmaking in inviting Brodie to

stay. And it would appear that nature had helped her endeavours along immeasurably. But what Una doesn't know - and what no one except Brodie knows - is the true reason she had suddenly ended her engagement to Guthrie two years ago. In fact, even Guthrie does not know that two years ago, Brodie had overheard the conversation which took place in a pretty little English church, between himself and a woman called Anne.

South Horizon Man

Whilst in London, Eleanor Seaton and Sarah Raeburn, two sisters from New Zealand, meet Georgina Innes, who works in the genealogical section of a tourist firm. When they invite Georgina to return with them to their remote sheep station to write up their family history, she jumps at the chance. In New Zealand, Georgina sifts through the family's papers and is amazed to discover that she is related to them. However, she is reluctant to reveal this information -- and especially to Seth Oliphant, the sisters' handsome nephew.

The Lark in the Meadow / Nurse Abroad by Essie Summers

This is the story of Sarah Isbister, a young nurse from England, and Grant Alexander, a New Zealand sheep farmer who found that he had, most unwillingly, to accept her as a partner in his estate. Sarah met Grant's unconcealed dislike and distrust with defiant independence and a stubborn resolve to prove to him that he was wrong about her. It was uphill work, but he was beginning to recognize her good qualities when a mischief-making woman came on to the scene, determined on nothing less than establishing herself for ever and driving Sarah out. Would she win? And would Sarah have to leave the sun-kissed, prosperous farm -- and the man -- that she had learned to love?

No Roses in June by Essie Summers

She, a MacDonald, love a Campbell? Edward Campbell had a totally unjustified reason for despising Fiona MacDonald, but she was certainly not going to explain her actions to a "stuffy colonial" she'd never see again! Unfortunately, Fiona did meet him again--as the uncle of her four young charges on a remote New Zealand sheep station. And it seemed the ancient feud between the clans was being revived. Too late then to wish they'd started out differently . . . .

House of the Shining Tide by Essie Summers

CC You and your sister are two of a kind! " Judith had always had trouble with her stepsister, so when Lorette got engaged to a young farmer

Judith felt a great relief. But it soon appeared that Lorette's fiance's family wanted to prevent the marriage, and Judith responded to her stepsister's selfish demands for help one last time, to try to keep the engagement together. She had formidable opposition from the autocratic Craig Argyll, who didn't like Judith at all. "Another woman with an eye to the main chance! " he said.

Come Blossom-Time, My Love

Jeannie Fraser was really quite desperate! With a salary inadequate to care for her younger brother and sister, Jeannie prayed for a miracle to help them escape their tyrannical stepfather. The inheritance of a successful fruit farm gave them their freedom--a farm managed by one Fergus MacGregor, a man of supposed integrity. But Jeannie had reason to doubt him. After all, at their first brief meeting, she'd seen him in the arms of her former boss's wife! Mills & Boon The inheritance of the fruit farm in Central Ortego meant a way out for Jeannie Fraser, an escape for her young brother and sister and herself from dependence on their mean and cruel stepfather. Now they were free! Or were they? Would their stepfather let the children go? Jeanie took no chances and virtually kidnapped them. Soon they were all happily settled at Strathlachan, and Jeannie even found her initial dislike for the manager, Fergus MacGregor, beginning to turn to the very opposite. But always there was the fear that their stepfather would track them down. Yet it was not their stepfather who found them, but the beautiful, unscrupulous Cecily Chalmers, who knew all about Jeannies past and was quite prepared to use it as a threat to win Fergus for herself

Heatherleigh / New Zealand Inheritance by Essie Summers

Heatherleigh, her grandfather's New Zealand farm, was to belong to Roberta O'More one day, so when her parents died it was natural that she should return there to live. Unfortunately, it appeared that Muir Buchanan, her grandfather's neighbour and right-hand man, also hoped to inherit Heatherleigh, and when he began to show interest in Roberta, it was only too clear what his real motives were. Which was a pity, as against her better judgement she couldn't stop herself falling in love with him.

Where No Roads Go
Had she destroyed all hope for happiness? The whole situation weighed heavily on Prudence's conscience, even though she had done the right thing. If only that Australian hadn't been listening! Prudence was shocked when she discovered that "that Australian." Was not only her cousin by marriage, but co-inheritor with her of a guesthouse in New Zealand's beautiful Fiordland. And Hugo had completely misinterpreted what he'd overheard. But the worst was yet to come--when she fell in love with Hugo!

South to Forget/Nurse Mary's Engagement

Mary Rose would have loved her job nursing in the large military hospital in Singapore if she had not been so heartsick at suddenly learning her fiance was in love with another girl. Now she wanted only to get away from everything, so when Ninian Macandrew, who had also recently been jilted, asked her to travel to his New Zealand home with him and pose as his fiancee, it seemed the answer to her problems as well as his own. But "Oh, what a tangled web we weave, when first we practise to decieve!" Warmly welcomed into Ninian's home by his kindly parents, treated as a loved daughter, Mary had to remind herself that it was all based on a lie. And there was no chance that Ninian would turn it into reality, for it was clear that he still loved his former fiancee, who was still, and his bother's wife, very much in the picture.

The Time and the Place

"Never the time and the place, and the loved one all together" said Browning, and many a lover has since sighed over the accuracy of his remark. The time and the place of Catherine Gordon's first meeting with Hugh Alexander Murdoch, whose secretary she was about to become, were uncommonly ill-chosen (if you could call it choosing), and as for loved ones, Catherine was engaged to a handsome young sports master, and looking forward to an early and blissful marriage. The part, if any, that love played in Hugh's life was obscure, but it seemed that there was a lovely, mysterious blonde who was more than willing to devote herself to him. From their first odd meeting Catherine and Hugh had a strangely unsettling relationship, bedevilled with misunderstandings, yet it was destined to develop into one of lasting happiness.

The Smoke and the Fire

Why must love be so complicated?

Dinah Pritchard had been looking forward to life in New Zealand; it held the promise of love. And marriage. But now, here in his own environment, Russell, her fiance, wasn't quite the same somehow.... Dinah shrugged it off; they hadn't seen each other for months. But neither Dinah nor Russell had anticipated the effect Anthony Bryn-Morgan would have on their relationship. Anthony began to figure prominently in her life--and not just as her employer!

Moon Over the Alps

"She's Penny Plain! But has rather good lines about her, don't you think? And not too bad for holiday jaunting, lacking something more glamorous?" Anger and humiliation and a desire to hit back washed over Penny as she heard Charles's words. She had believed that Charles's friendship for her was something deeper than a mere holiday romance. There was only one thing to do ... Cinderella had runaway from the ball, hadn't she? Then so would Penny Smith, she told herself. Taking a job on a remote back-country sheep station in the New Zealand Alps, Penny hoped that in the silence and vastness of the mountains she would find healing and forget the memory of Charles. But unfortunately for Penny's plans, she chose the one place in the world where this task would prove most difficult.

Bachelors Galore
"Eligible bachelors in New Zealand" Marty Reddington felt such an outlandish claim deserved the joke she made about landing a rich sheep farmer. She did not sail from England to New Zealand only in search of a prosperous farmer for a husband but she was attractive and a good cook to boot so she wasn't likely to remain unattached for long. The only question was - which prosperous farmer would it be? It never entered her head that anyone would take her seriously, but someone had: Philip Griffiths, a New Zealand bachelor and sheep farmer! At the time, Marty had simply dismissed the grazier as having no sense of humor. It proved a far more difficult task when she discovered herself living next door to him!

The Master of Tawhai

Rowena had the rich girl's problem -- to find a man who would love her for herself and not for her fortune. How ironic it was, then, that when she went to New Zealand to earn her living like any other girl, she should fall for a rich man who had a horror of gold-diggers -- and who took for granted that she must be one of them!

Bride in Flight
Kirsten MacPherson was dressed and ready for her wedding to Gilbert when the phone call arrived

that was to shatter her life -- the call from the woman to whom Gilbert was already married. Kirsty's immediate instinct was to run blindly away -- back to New Zealand, the land of her childhood. But even there her troubles followed her, and led to even more complications.

No Legacy for Lindsay

Euan Hazeldean was convinced that Lindsay had come out to New Zealand to get what pickings she could from her stepfather's estate. Lindsay believed that Euan was himself trying to get complete control of his ex-boss's property. So it was a pity that, as co-guardians of Lindsay's young half-brother and sister, they should have to see so much of each other!

No Orchids by Request
After Stephen had let her down, it was certainly a fillip to Elizabeth Stirling's ego to have the attractive Jeremy Ffoulkes paying court to her. But Jeremy had a wild past and a background of a broken marriage. Was he any more trustworthy than Stephen had been?

Sweet Are the Ways

It was love at first sight for Reverend Dougal MacNab when he met Elspeth Cameron and he lost no time in trying to persuade her to marry him. Elspeth, however, was convinced she would never make a suitable wife for a minister. Dougal didn't agree -- but he didn't know of the scandal that lay like a shadow over her past.

Heir to Windrush Hill

It was affection for the orphaned triplets that led Janet MacGregor to deceive the wealthy old Mr. MacNee and Morgan Mackay and took her across the world from Scotland to New Zealand. And then she was caught up in another charade--a fake engagement to Morgan himself.

His Serene Miss Smith

Glamorous Serena Smith vowed to never again become personally involved with a male employer her blonde good looks had brought her more trouble than success - so she dyed her hair mouse-colour to make herself appear less glamorous. Then William Durbridge came thundering into her life and Serena was trapped in her new role! She promptly fell in love with him who appeared to be interested only in glamour-girls!

Postscript to Yesterday
Nicola Trenton was thrilled when her distant cousin George Westerfield invited her out to New

Zealand to share in the local Centennial celebrations, but not so thrilled when Forbes Westerfield indicated that he would rather she didn't come. But she went, nevertheless - and in exploring a long-ago romance, found her own happy ending.

A Place Called Paradise

Annabel Lee had been brought up in an orphanage, but had always longed to be able to trace her father, and at last she decided to follow the few slender clues she had to her real identity. They led her to the most beautiful place in the world - where Annabel not only found what she was seeking, but met Gideon Darroch, the most wonderful man in the world, too! How would he feel if he knew the reason she had come?

Rosalind Comes Home

Rosalind loved her stepbrother Rowland so much that, when he had indicated that she was wasting her time, she had left home. Now, after four years, she was back. Her feelings hadn't changed--but neither, it seemed, had Rowland's . . .

Meet on My Ground
Sarah Macdonald and Alastair Campbell would seem to be ideally matched--but they were boss and secretary, and Sarah had a mental block where Alistair's money and position were concerned. Would he ever be able to persuade her that that kind of thing just didn't matter?

Revolt--And Virginia
Virginia Fergusson's love life was becoming more than a little chaotic-- so much so that she suddenly decided to run away, to a new city and a new life of her own. And that was before she met Nicholas Muir!

The Kindled Fire

Nicholas was a lot older than Penny, and before he asked her to marry him he had decided it would be a good idea if they separated for a year or two, to give Penny a chance to spread her wings before settling down. But was it such a good idea after all? Nicholas and Penny had fallen in love when she was still a teenager and he was almost thirty - and although Nicholas knew that his feelings would not change, it was possible that Pennys would. So he suggested that they part for a year or two, to give Penny a chance to spread her wings, maybe meet other men, and really be sure of her feelings for him. All that had been three years ago, and now here was Penny, back again in New Zealand where Nicholas was waiting to greet her. But was he...? It was Angeline Dare who met her, Angeline who made the excuses that all added up to the fact that Nicholas was not particulary eager for the reunion. Pennys feelings had not changed - but what had happened to Nicholas?

Summer in December / Long White Cloud

It was a series of mishaps that had brought Joanna to Heronscrag, Matthew Greenwood's New Zealand sheep station, in the depths of winter, and she soon knew that she would give anything to be there in summer as well. But chance would be a fine thing

The Bay of the Nightingales

Margot Chesterton had traveled to New Zealand to look for her long-lost father -- but Pierre Laveroux persisted in believing that her motive was a more sinister one. Which was a pity, as Margot would so much have preferred him to have a good opinion of her!

Return to Dragonshill
Johnny Carruthers had broken Henrietta's heart once, when he got engaged to another woman. Now that engagement was over, and Johnny had come back into her life, offering her a second-best love. Would Henrietta have the courage to refuse, or would she decide anyway that half a loaf was better than no bread?

The House on Gregor's Brae

Jennifer McGrouther had met the famous author Gregor MacGregor just once, when she had been a small child; but directly and indirectly the meeting had changed her whole life, and she had never stopped dreaming about him. Now at last they were to meet again -- but was Jennifer wise to hope that those childhood dreams could ever turn into reality?

South Island Stowaway

It was sheer accident - she'd stowed away in the wrong car - that had brought Julia to Adam Dare's sheep farm in New Zealand's South Island, and wrecked his engagement as a result. Julia felt it was her duty to repair the damage - but was that what she really wanted?

A Touch of Magic / Lodestar in the South

"Farmer Giles", Lucinda had called Giles Logie, mockingly on the occasion of their first stormy meeting -- though anyone less like the traditional "Farmer Giles" was difficult to imagine! And indeed she soon learned that Giles had a reputation as the local gay Lothario. How could she ever have managed to find herself pretending to be "engaged" to him?

The Forbidden Valley

Charlotte was worried to death about her cousin Phyl, who seemed to have run away from home and left her children. It just didn't seem possible -- although Phyl's rather forbidding brother-in-law Edmund Leigh was only too ready to believe the worst of her. So Charlotte set about solving the mystery, without letting Edmund realize who she was.

Through All the Years

When Thomasina heard that she had won a competition and would be able to take her young half-brother and sister on the holiday of a lifetime, she was thrilled. Not only would she be able to travel to New Zealand, but once there she would see her father's friend, Uncle Eb. But the annoying Luke Richmond made it clear that he suspected her motives for the visit...

The Gold of Noon

"The Gunns never did bring the Keiths anything but sorrow," Theresa Keith acknowledged after she had left her home in New Zealand for Austria in the hope that fresh scenes and new faces would take her mind off Murdoch Gunn, the man she was to have married. But Murdoch, like all the Gunn clan, was ruthless and usually got what he wanted. Did he still want Theresa?

Anna of Strathallan
Anna Drummond was delighted to be reunited with her long-lost grandparents in New Zealand. But how was she to cope with the suspicion and hostility of Calum Doig? And how, as time went on, was she to fight her growing love for him?

Not by Appointment
Running away from a love that could not be, Jocelyn was thankful for the job of looking after two orphaned children and housekeeping for their uncle. Perhaps it would compensate for the family life that now would never be hers. But then her peace of mind was shattered once again by the malice of a jealous woman.

Beyond the Foothills

After the unwelcome publicity aroused by a television interview, Marilla St. John decided to retreat

to the country for a while until the fuss had died down. She was not prepared for the encounter with Rufus Sinclair, a confirmed bachelor who had heard that Marilla St. John was a determined husband-hunter. How could she convince him he was wrong?

Goblin Hill
Only after the tragic deaths of her adoptive parents, did Faith learn the whereabouts of her real father. She could not rest until she had gone to New Zealand in search of him. But the real problem, she soon realized, was her father's grim stepson Gareth Morgan, who could not forget the family scandal -- or forgive Faith for it!

Adair of Starlight Peaks

There was no trust. How could love last? Jane Grey was aware that Broderic Adair resented her intrusion into her grandmother. Esmeralda's life. She knew he regarded her and her family as spongers on the bounty of an old lady. But Jane had a problem that Esmeralda could help solve: and she wasn't about to let Broderic's antagonism drive her away. What does it have to do with you, Mr. Adair? she asked icily. You're not even a relative!

Spring in September
Contempt flashed from Morgan's eyes And his attitude puzzled Susannah. Was it jealousy that made him so sarcastic whenever she went to see John? If it was, she could see no reason for it. Morgan had made it plain that his heart's desire lay only in taking over the estate owned by her family -- not in trying to win Susannah. Ruthless and ambitious, Susannah had labeled him. Yet in her heart she knew it wasn't true!

The Lake of the Kingfisher

Elissa could not believe things could go so wrong Elissa jumped at her uncle's request to go to New Zealand and redo his home while he was away She expected to relive her happy childhood memories. Instead, her return to Airlie House was a fiasco. A rainstorm, a fall in the lake, a locked door combined to make her appear a fool to Logan MacCorquodale, the station manager. What's more, she'd come between Logan and his fiancee. Well, she'd complete her work and go home. Home, she thought sadly. She was home, wasn't she?

My Lady of the Fuchsias

Her retreat led her back to square one! Priscilla loved her boss, P.B. Lockhart. Since he was engaged to someone else, running away seemed a good idea. She didn't run far enough. She stopped unexpectedly to come to the aid of the elderly Rosina Claremont at her country estate. Rosina was preparing to look after three children in spite of what her domineering nephew, Barnabas, would say. Who could have foreseen that the formidable Barnabas was P.B. Lockhart?

One More River to Cross

Rebecca had landed herself in a jam! It had been her own impulsive decision to help her look-alike cousin, Becky, by taking her place at Craigievar. Becky had promptly vanished. Then the river had flooded, cutting off access to the remote sheep station. So Rebecca was forced to continue the deception. To make matters worse, Rebecca had fallen in love with Darroch Fordyce, the autocratic owner of Craigievar. But what use was that when he thought she was Becky -- and engaged to his cousin Lennox?

The Tender Leaves

Would fate again deny her a chance at love? Maria was delighted to accompany Mrs. Jensen to New Zealand as her nursing companion. And it seemed the perfect opportunity to trace the father she'd never known. After a few glorious months there, she knew she'd found her home, if not her father. For if "home is where the heart is," Maria's home was at Heronshaw with Struan Mandeville. But even as she hoped and dreamed, she knew there was one reason why it would never work ....

Daughter of the Misty Gorges

Why was Conrad so hostile toward her? Once Christabel had thought he was the man with whom she'd spend her life--he had been far from indifferent to her on that brief holiday in England. Yet he had made their parting final.

But it seemed their destinies were entwined. She had traveled around the world to comfort the children her flighty selfish sister had left behind, only to face him again unexpectedly. Now, however, he had a different name, and this time he was her enemy.

A Mountain for Luenda

She would never marry without love! When her stepfather's death left Luenda in debt, and with three children to support, she seemed to need a miracle -- and that's just what a friend's will provided. A year free of expense on an isolated farm with the possibility of inheriting half the property. But Gwillym Vaughan owned the other half, and he was obsessed with gaining complete control -- and marriage to Luenda would secure it. But Luenda refused to marry for his profit, no matter how he tried to weaken her resistance. And he wasn't an easy man to resist!

A Lamp for Jonathan

He was too near -- and not to be trusted Having Jonathan back in New Zealand was torture for Camilla. Five years had passed since she'd painfully broken their engagement, though she'd kept her knowledge of his dishonesty a secret. No matter how appealing Jonathan was now, she could never forget what he had done. Yet Camilla was swept with a longing for things to be different, that money didn't mean everything to Jonathan--that she could trust the only man she could ever love!

Season of Forgetfulness
Hired by telegram -- and by mistake Valancy Adam-Smith had never even heard of novelist Godfrey Carmichael when she applied by wire for the job as his secretary. So his fury when he discovered "V. Adam-Smith" was female both startled and intrigued her. Who were the women who had so bitterly disillusioned him? And why, Valancy wondered, should it matter to her that Godfrey's former fiancee had returned to New Zealand, obviously hoping for a reconciliation.

Winter in July
Hers was a small secret mission

Juliana's father had been born and raised on the alpine sheep station of Thor's Hill, but he had left it under mysterious circumstances and never returned to New Zealand. Now, as private-duty nurse at Thor's Hill, Juliana was determined to discover the reason. Something had driven her father away from this beautiful country, but what? And would its shadow always fall between herself and station manager Tulloch MacNair, destroying any chance of their happiness?

To Bring You Joy

It was the chance of a lifetime "Take this money and spread your wings. It's meant to bring you joy:" Aunt Amabel wanted Monique Belfield to take a break from shouldering the family burdens, to take a cruise to the other side of the world, find adventure, freedom and possibly romance. But Monique had other dreams. Her heart was set on tracing her roots in Port Beauchamp, the home her grandfather had left in disgrace years ago. She was undecided--until an outrageous encounter with Edward Fergusson, a chivalrous stranger gave her the push she needed.

Autumn in April
They stared at each other in dismay Rosamond recalled seeing this unknown man's disgusted face over Gaspard MacQueen's shoulder when she'd kissed him good-bye in England. Gaspard, who had loved and lost her grandmother years ago, and who'd offered Rosamond the job here in New Zealand. So this was Matthieu, the grandson Gaspard had assured her would welcome and look after her until his return. Rosamond had arrived with such high hopes, but now her heart sank. For Matthieu was convinced that Rosamond was a gold digger, out to capture his grandfather's money.

High Country Governess

She was known as "Letitia for Loveliness" If Nathaniel Pengelly had not so desperately needed a governess for his isolated sheep station, Letitia Greenaway knew he would never willingly have hired her--the head beautician in his father's store. In Nathaniel's own words, that sort of woman could only prove to be "artificial, totally unsuitable and probably a mischief maker."

Nevertheless, Letty was determined to prove herself, and she accepted the last-minute offer. As for the high and mighty Nathaniel Pengelly, Letty vowed, he'd learn a lesson he'd never forget!