Collection: NZ AUTHORS

Back due to popular demand for a second edition - Now with more multichoice answers!

Bored at home and wondering what you can do to hang out with your friends, family or neighbours?Let's put the social back in social distancing!

From my bubble to yours, The Great Lockdown Quiz is a great way to set up quiz nights tailored to your social group's interests. With 9 categories, 450 questions and tiebreakers, there's something for everyone. 

Included Categories:

• Sports
• Music
• Movies/TV
• Geography
• Food
• Literature
• Animals
• Science
• History

Everything you need to host your own quiz from home!

Series: The Big Lockdown Quiz, #2

Format: B, 150 pages, paperback
Published: 1 November, 2020
ISBN: 9798557200400
Language: English

Bored at home and wondering what you can do to hang out with your friends, family or neighbours?Let's put the social back in social distancing!

From my bubble to yours, The Great Lockdown Quiz is a great way to set up quiz nights tailored to your social group's interests. With 9 categories, 450 questions and tiebreakers, there's something for everyone. 

Included Categories:

• Sports
• Music
• Movies/TV
• Geography
• Food
• Literature
• Animals
• Science
• History

Everything you need to host your own quiz from home!

Series: The Big Lockdown Quiz, #1

Format: B, 105 pages, paperback
Published: 29 October, 2020
ISBN: 9798639368431
Language: English

A red rose for love, an anenome for expectation, and a small white bellflower for gratitude: the Victorian Language of Flowers took the world by storm with its ability to communicate meaning both subtle and specific.

Here you will find a collection of the reference guides used at the time - both Kate Greenaway's 1884 guide relevant to Europe and the UK, and the 1881 guide from Gems of Deportment, relevant to America - as well as a collection of story excerpts, descriptions of use, and explanations on how to arrange a bouquet to convey the desired meaning.

The perfect reference guide for authors, romantics and floriography enthusiasts.

Format: C, 282 pages, paperback
Published: 5 November, 2020
ISBN: 9798559045559
Language: English

One Baby. One Last Name. Two Secrets.

Xavier Dawson is a man to envy - the most charismatic bachelor of the Crypto-Billionaire Brotherhood, but also the most elusive. With his strict one-date-rule he holds everyone at arm's length. Little does he know, the one crack in his armor is about to be exposed - he would do just about anything for a baby in need.

Natalie Dawson is between a rock and a hard place - all alone with a newborn baby. Someone else's lies got her into this mess, maybe one of her own will get her out of it?

When they were children their shared last name had brought them together as friends, but as adults could it provide the perfect cover for a fake family?

In their decade apart, who has accumulated the most secrets?
And with neither of them laying all their cards on the table, can they ever really grow to trust each other?

Series: The Crypto-Billionaire Brotherhood, #2

Format: C, 212 pages, paperback
Published: 15 September, 2021
ISBN: 9798477852093
Language: English

It's hard getting over your first true love... Especially when he's your new boss, he's totally into you, and you know if you give in and kiss him it'll turn into a total disaster.

If there were awards for running away from your problems, Luna Green would be a gold medalist. Luna had dedicated years of her life to building her virtual sanctuary, Edendell, but if she ever wants to bring it to life the obvious next step is an internship with the leading tech company in the country - Zenterprises.

The only problem? It's run by her ex-high school sweetheart, whose heart she broke fifteen years ago.

Zenterprises CEO Yohan Wright has the perfect life on paper: immeasurable wealth, a tech empire, and a son who he loves more than either... But he has two big regrets and they both relate to Luna. When she turns up on his doorstep will he be able to get the one thing he really wants, or will the secrets from their pasts catch up to them and make Luna cut and run again?

Series: The Crypto-Billionaire Brotherhood, #4

Format: C, 240 pages, paperback
Published: 22 September, 2022
ISBN: 9798352830741
Language: English

Can you get a Happily Ever After twice?

Widower billionaire bachelor Ezekiel Miller has dedicated his life to two things: His business and his daughter, Amelia. He tells her he already had his happy ending… it just ended a little early. He's fine. Perfectly fine. His priority is to heal the hurt he sees every day in his daughter's eyes.

But when his first love, Bonnie Adams, comes tumbling back into his life after fifteen years his life is turned on its head.

Bonnie wasn't looking for love. She was busy chasing ghosts, trying desperately to find the adventurous spirit she'd been missing since her life was abruptly changed by tragedy. But when she bumps into Zeke and Amelia her path is changed irrevocably again.

Can they pick up where they left off when so much has changed between the past and the present?
Will Zeke be able to get a second happy ending?
And will Bonnie hold the answers Zeke has to not only his daughter's wounds, but his own as well?

Series: The Crypto-Billionaire Brotherhood, #3

Format: C, 256 pages, paperback
Published: 4 May, 2022
ISBN: 9798816535946
Language: English

The dating game isn’t easy when everyone thinks you’re an absolute jerk.

Daschel Durincourt is a 5 star lover and a 1 star boyfriend - or at least that’s what it says on the internet. Getting girls hasn’t been an issue for Dash since his awkward teenage years. Keeping them is another story.

Sarah Preston is drowning in bridesmaid dresses. With all of her friends happily paired off, and an endless stream of blissful brides-to-be walking in the door of her charity for pre-loved dresses, Sarah can’t help but wish it was her turn to find true love. But there’s one problem - her intuition is completely broken. How do you know someone really loves you when you’ve been wrong in the past?

When Dash sees Sarah for the first time his heart stops, and his brain is overcome with two words: Target Acquired. On meeting her, he finds a woman unlike any of his long line of ex’s - and possibly the one woman on the planet who refuses to read the online gossip. Will Dash manage to get past his own ego and find something that lasts? Will Sarah learn to trust her own heart, even in the face of warnings from friends and family? Or will some unknown disaster knock them both off their feet?

A clean and wholesome billionaire romance.

(Previously published under the title "A Bridesmaid for the Playboy Billionaire")

Series: Billionaire Sweet Hearts Clean and Wholesome Romance Series, #2 

Format: C, 249 pages, paperback
Published: 12 May, 2021
ISBN: 9798502864909
Language: English

What would you do to save the world? Armed with her new eco-consultancy business, Rebecca is raring to go and change the world. When she gets approached by oil tycoon Hunter, she is over the moon at the opportunity to make an impact on an otherwise hostile industry.

Only once they're on the plane does she realize Hunter only cares about token efforts to improve his PR. Outraged at being misled, Rebecca is determined to change his mind.

Taking Hunter on a road trip through beautiful New Zealand destinations, she hopes she can get him to appreciate what the planet has to offer. What she's unprepared for, however, is learning to appreciate the hero hiding within the villain.

Will Hunter be able to put love before money?
And what other complications are keeping him from embracing the life - and the woman - who lies just out of reach?

An enemies to lovers inspirational destination romance.

Previously published under the title "An Activist for the Big Oil Billionaire"

Series: Billionaire Sweet Hearts Clean and Wholesome Romance Series, #3 

Format: C, 235 pages, paperback
Published: 16 May, 2024
ISBN: 9798505399798
Language: English

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. A nightmare creeps into my once peaceful town. Seeking me out to drag me back, back into a nightmare...

They want to break me so I will surrender to their soulless ways. They want to control every aspect of my life. But the more I try to fight back, the more severe their brutality is stowed upon me.

My name is Birdie, and I was born into a cult.

Format: B, 219 pages, Paperback
Published: 1 June, 2024
ISBN: 9781067006310
Language: English

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 seeking nothing more than to be accepted and loved, so with every demand, I listen and obey. That is until they betray me in the most horrific way, and the one who is meant to be my enemy is the only one that can save me.

Plague: I have it all. Everything I have ever wanted. The road to running my empire hasn’t been an easy one, but it’s been worth every drop of blood I have shed. That is until she comes into my life, skipping and whistling like she is straight out of a musical. Her beauty makes her look harmless, but her eyes show who she really is. Dark and depraved, like me. Now I will make it my mission to take her from the Cobra’s so I can use and manipulate her the same way they have.

Please check the trigger warnings at the start of the book.

Format: B, 236 pages, paperback
Published: 14 February, 2024
ISBN: 9781067006327
Language: English

The Collected Poems and Stories of Eleanor (Nell) Jean Norton née Milson 

 Born Tauranga, New Zealand May 3rd, 1927

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Eleanor (Nell) Jean Norton née Milson was born on 3rd of May 1927 in Tauranga, New Zealand. She showed early promise as a writer of both poetry and prose and won many competitions. Many of her poems and stories were published in local and national newspapers during the 1930s and 1940s. 

The first volume in a three-volume family saga. When Tamar Deane is orphaned at seventeen in a small Cornish village, she seizes the chance for a new life and emigrates to New Zealand. In March 1879, alone and frightened on the Plymouth quay, she is befriended by an extraordinary woman. Myrna McTaggert is travelling to Auckland with plans to establish the finest brothel in the southern hemisphere and her unconventional friendship proves invaluable when Tamar makes disastrous choices in the new colony. Tragedy and scandal befall her, but unexpected good fortune brings vast changes to Tamar's life. As the century draws to a close, uncertainty looms when a distant war lures her loved ones to South Africa.

Series: Tamar Deane Trilogy
Condition: Pre-loved, Excellent

Format: A,537 pages, Paperback
Published: January 1, 2002 by HarperCollins
ISBN: 9781869504083 (ISBN10: 1869504089)
Language: English