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Retired Detective Inspector Ann Grieves, now private investigator, probes the dark secrets of Arcadia, a remote religious sect in West Auckland where abuse of adults and children is rife. After blowing the whistle on their narcissistic leader, a young dairy foreman is found dead. Ann and her sidekick Tim head up Operation White-tail, the criminal investigation of the community's brutal shepherds. Tim enters Arcadia as an undercover detective, ...

Meg had become like one of the desperate butterflies her narcissistic husband, Lyle, had trapped in a jar. While they were out fishing one day after one of his vicious rages, Meg stood horrified as Lyle fell off the rocks and disappeared into the sea. Her legs froze to the spot, rendering her incapable of reaching down to help him. The shock of it all caused amnesia. She couldn't remember if she had deliberately pushed him, or he had fallen ba...

Amber Raymond locks the door of the city medical clinic and sets off for a late-night shopping spree. Hurrying to catch the last ferry home to Gulf Harbour, she is accosted by a stranger in a dark and empty street. This ignites a full-blown investigation into organised corporate crime at her husband Kyle's factory that exposes its workers to a life-threatening product and dumps toxic waste. When Private Investigator Ann Grieves takes on the c...

After retiring as a Detective Inspector, Ann Grieves enjoys her cottage by the sea. When she isn't sleuthing unfaithful spouses and small-time crooks, she enjoys a laid-back life walking the promenade with Scout, her ex-police Beagle dog or making preserves for the oldies in her street. Until a body turns up in her friend's band room.

When Louis holds his first garden party, he discovers whom his real friends are after they decide not to come because they don't get along with each other. When they spy the delicious food his mother has prepared for them, they all change their minds about attending. Louis is kind and forgiving, and allows them to join to him in having fun. They arrive in their best clothes ready to dance

Sandy Barrett's hiking escapades were usually uneventful and relaxing, until the day she risked her life saving a trapped seagull and tumbled down a 100 metre cliff. After tree branches miraculously broke her fall, her body lay battered on a rocky ledge. A greater horror lay await to torment her when she discovered she was a key witness to a murder.Will she have the resilience and determination to survive the daunting days that lie ahead, or i...

Mack Reed has dreams of giving up working as a shearing contractor to buy a high country station. Perhaps it's only a pipedream and how will he ever find that kind of money?When he moves to Glenorchy, a remote rural area in the Southern Alps, his luck changes-or is it divine intervention? He tries to form a relationship with his grandfather, Walter who is embittered by a longstanding feud between Mack's father, and himself. When he takes over ...

Jessie Lee, a young New Zealand vet leaves the city to join her friend, Hope Rigby in the alpine rural village of Glenorchy. When she takes up her new post as a remote on-call vet, she encounters animosity and prejudice from male farmers who have lived in the area all their lives. They resent having a female vet take over when their long-standing vet, Max retires.Will Jessie's determination as well as her faith win through? Can she gain the re...

A heart-warming story that will inspire youUNSHAKABLE COURAGE-does Ruby have it?Ruby Preston is about to face the perils of an overland journey to Thailand from Australia. She has agreed to help out in her parent's charity, a child trafficking rescue mission in Bangkok. But will she be able to cope with the dangers of working with sex-trade victims?The evil exploitation of children has left her reeling. How could she survive this as well as th...

It was the last straw for Hope Peterson. Her parents' betrayal was more than she could bear. How could she survive the deprivation of everything and everyone she had ever loved? One loss was enough but unbeknown to her, there was more heartbreak to come.During her perilous road trip along the Southern Alps, she experiences the joy of witnessing the most breath-taking scenery she had ever seen. But when she arrives at Dart River Ranch, the reve...

Laura McKenzie was elated when she moved into her grandmother's home on Kawau Island in the Hauraki Gulf. When she inherited Nan's cottage, she had no idea she was about to enmesh herself in a full-scale search for the missing woman. Although police reports had said that it was an accidental drowning, Laura found evidence that something of a more sinister event had ended Nan's life, and she was determined to find the truth, even if it meant pu...

Naïve Ruby Preston left the security of a sheltered life to travel overland to Thailand with her best friend. Little did she know that her innocence was about to be shattered as she followed her heart to work with trafficked women and children at Rainbow Haven.The horrendous exploitation of little children left her reeling. How can she survive this as well as the dance of intimacy between Julian and herself? Would the horrors they experience d...

Belle was entangled in a spider's web of lies and self-deception. It robbed her of all hope. Was there any way she could break free? … Would she ever be free?Milton came into her life when she least expected, at her lowest point. He was different from the others who had deceived her. Could she trust him? What would happen if she let down her protective walls … did she dare?