Collection: NZ AUTHORS

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

As long as I can remember my shadows have whispered to me, speaking in a voice both young and ancient. I have learned to mind them, let them guide me through life even when I do not understand their messages. They whisper now to me, a song of sorrow and heartache that weaves itself around the woman I love. A song I do not want to listen to, yet know I cannot run from.
King Arthur has taken this land. Aided by his advisor Merlin and the legions he commands, he has swept over this once prosperous Kingdom like a plague, chasing the last of the Sylvyns into the far south in his quest for power.
They have nowhere to run now, there is no further to go and I fear the bargains that will be made to protect them are ones that will haunt me for the rest of my immortal life.

I was born touched by Nimmet, both a blessing and a curse.

— Morgana

Series: The Pendragon Chronicles, #1

Format: C, 426 pages, Paperback
Published: December 1, 2023
ISBN: 9798856489681
Language: English

I was born in blood and pain. I should have been thrown to the wolves with my mother’s body, my soul destined to roam the woods with my sisters. But fate laid its cold hand on me as I entered this world, wrapping its icy fingers around mine and leading me towards a life I could so easily have never seen.

My name is Lyrik Damaris.
And this is my story.

Series: The Wytchling Chronicles, Novella, #3

Format: C, 218 pages, Paperback
Published: May 12, 2023
ISBN: 9781991165862 
Language: English

The Heliacle has risen.
But it wasn’t without a cost.

After being freed from her ordeal in Lylican,
Amylia begins to heal as she forges a new life in Asteryn.
But within its borders, bonds are being strained to the limit.
Old wounds test the strength of those closest to each other.

The eight territories of Labrynth are still dangerously divided,
human distrust of Wytchlings cleaving them apart.
After devastating attacks threaten to break tentative alliances,
Asteryn makes a desperate attempt to unite them all.

Attica is stirring…
Imogyn, its Queen, is ready for war…
And she knows something they don’t.

Series: The Wytchling Chronicles, #2

Format: C, 400 pages, Paperback
Published: August 5, 2022
ISBN: 9781991165831 
Language: English

Raised to be a wife. Taught to be obedient. Expected to obey.

Taken in as ward of Lord Drakon after her parents' slaughter. Forced to navigate a new life, trying to become what is required of her in a world so vastly different than what she had known.

Then Attica, Kingdom of the Wytchlings, moves to rise again. Territories long alienated are forced to unite. Secrets begin to unravel. Secrets that make her question everything.

She is Amylia Sylvers.
And she is about to show the world that even the most unexpected …
can burn the brightest.

Series: The Wytchling Chronicles, #1

Format: C, 369 pages, Paperback
Published: July 3, 2022
ISBN: 9781991165800
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

Irreverent and streetwise prostitute, Friday Woolfe, is in London_s notorious Newgate gaol, awaiting transportation. There, she meets three other girls: intelligent and opportunistic thief, Sarah Morgan, naive young Rachel Winter, and reliable and capable seamstress, Harriet Clarke.

On the voyage to New South Wales their friendship becomes an unbreakable bond -- but there are others on board who will change their lives forever. Friday makes an implacable enemy of Bella Jackson, a vicious woman whose power seems undiminished by her arrest and transportation, while Harriet is taken under the wing of an idealistic doctor, James Downey. Rachel catches the eye of a sinister passenger with more than honour on his mind, whose brutal assault leaves her life hanging in the balance.

When they finally arrive on the other side of the world, they are confined to the grim and overcrowded Parramatta Female Factory. But worse is to come as the threat of separation looms. In the land behind the sun, the only thing they have is each other ...

Series: Convict Girls, #1
Condition: Pre-loved, Excellent