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Essie Summers
Full Series List in Order
Belle Knowes
1 - No Roses in June (1962)2 - Beyond the Foothills (Nov-1976)
3 - MacBride of Tordarroch (1984)
Challowsford
1 - The Lark in the Meadow // Nurse Abroad (1961)2 - Not by Appointment (Aug-1976)
3 - So Comes Tomorrow (1995)
Dragonshill
1 - Moon Over the Alps (1960)2 - Summer in December // Long White Cloud (Jul-1970)
3 - Return to Dragonshill (Jun-1971)
4 - One More River to Cross (Mar-1980)
5 - Winter in July (Apr-1985)
Fairacre Valley
1 - Sweet Are the Ways (May-1966)2 - My Lady of the Fuchsias (Sep-1979)
Glenorchy
1 - A Place Called Paradise (Nov-1967)2 - A Touch of Magic // Lodestar in the South (Jul-1973)
3 - Anna of Strathallan (Oct-1975)
4 - Adair of Starlight Peaks (Jan-1978)
5 - High Country Governess (Jan-1988)
6 - Caleb's Kingdom (1996)
Harvest Moon Bay
1 - No Orchids by Request (Jan-1966)2 - Through All the Years (Feb-1975)
3 - Design for Life (1997)
4 - To Bring You Joy (May-1986)
Heatherleigh
1 - Heatherleigh // New Zealand Inheritance (1957)2 - House of the Shining Tide (1963)
3 - Rosalind Comes Home (Mar-1969)
Hills of Home
1 - His Serene Miss Smith (Mar-1967)2 - Season of Forgetfulness (Sep-1984)
Ludwigtown
1 - The Gold of Noon (Jun-1975)2 - The Lake of the Kingfisher (Feb-1979)
3 - Autumn in April (Nov-1986)
4 - A Mountain for Luenda (Dec-1983)
5 - South Horizon Man (Jul-1995)
Misty Gorges
1 - Nurse Mary's Engagement // South to Forget (Mar-1964)2 - Daughter of the Misty Gorges (Jan-1983)
Stirling
1 - Where No Roads Go (Dec-1963)2 - No Orchids by Request (Jan-1966)
Tawhai Hills
1 - The Master of Tawhai (Apr-1965)2 - The Kindled Fire (Feb-1970)
3 - The Bay of the Nightingales (Nov-1970)
4 - Spring in September (Mar-1978)
Windrush Hill / MacGregor
1 - No Legacy for Lindsay (Oct-1965)2 - Heir to Windrush Hill (Oct-1966)
3 - The House on Gregor's Brae (Oct-1971)
Book List in Order: 56 titles
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Heatherleigh // New Zealand Inheritance
- 1957
- / Contemporary Romance
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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 ri...
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Moon Over the Alps
- 1960
- / Contemporary Romance
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"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 ...
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The Lark in the Meadow // Nurse Abroad
- 1961
- / Contemporary Romance
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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 wit...
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No Roses in June
- 1962
- / Contemporary Romance
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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 mee...
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House of the Shining Tide
- 1963
- / Contemporary Romance
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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 m...
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Come Blossom-Time, My Love
- 1963
- / Contemporary Romance
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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...
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Where No Roads Go
- Dec-1963
- / Contemporary Romance
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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 "tha...
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Nurse Mary's Engagement // South to Forget
- Mar-1964
- / Contemporary Romance
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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 Mac...
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The Time and the Place
- May-1964
- / Contemporary Romance
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"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 secretar...
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The Smoke and the Fire
- Aug-1964
- / Contemporary Romance
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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...
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Bachelors Galore
- Jan-1965
- / Contemporary Romance
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"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 ...
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The Master of Tawhai
- Apr-1965
- / Contemporary Romance
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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...
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Bride in Flight
- Jul-1965
- / Contemporary Romance
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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 ...
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No Legacy for Lindsay
- Oct-1965
- / Contemporary Romance
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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 th...
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No Orchids by Request
- Jan-1966
- / Contemporary Romance
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Elizabeth didn't recognize herself For years Elizabeth had devoted her time -- and most of her money -- to the care of her selfish stepmother. Quiet, obedient, self-sacrificing, Elizabeth was the ideal young lady. Until Jeremy Ffoulkes bec...
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Sweet Are the Ways
- May-1966
- / Contemporary Romance
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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 --...
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Heir to Windrush Hill
- Oct-1966
- / Contemporary Romance
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Windrush Hill / MacGregor - 2
Harlequin Romance - 1055
Mills & Boon Best Seller (reissues) - 106
Mills & Boon Romance - 223
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 engagemen...
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His Serene Miss Smith
- Mar-1967
- / Contemporary Romance
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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 Durb...
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Postscript to Yesterday
- Jun-1967
- / Contemporary Romance
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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 sh...
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A Place Called Paradise
- Nov-1967
- / Contemporary Romance
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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...
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Rosalind Comes Home
- Mar-1969
- / Contemporary Romance
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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 . . ....
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Meet on My Ground
- Aug-1969
- / Contemporary Romance
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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 j...
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Revolt--And Virginia
- Nov-1969
- / Contemporary Romance
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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!...
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The Kindled Fire
- Feb-1970
- / Contemporary Romance
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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 a...
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Summer in December // Long White Cloud
- Jul-1970
- / Contemporary Romance
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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 thi...
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The Bay of the Nightingales
- Nov-1970
- / Contemporary Romance
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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 ...
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Return to Dragonshill
- Jun-1971
- / Contemporary Romance
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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 ...
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The House on Gregor's Brae
- Oct-1971
- / Contemporary Romance
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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 m...
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South Island Stowaway
- Feb-1972
- / Contemporary Romance
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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 ...
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A Touch of Magic // Lodestar in the South
- Jul-1973
- / Contemporary Romance
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"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 h...
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The Forbidden Valley
- Nov-1973
- / Contemporary Romance
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Charlotte was worried to death about her cousin Phyllis, 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 ...
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Through All the Years
- Feb-1975
- / Contemporary Romance
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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 f...
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The Gold of Noon
- Jun-1975
- / Contemporary Romance
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"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...
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Anna of Strathallan
- Oct-1975
- / Contemporary Romance
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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? Hero: Calum ...
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Not by Appointment
- Aug-1976
- / Contemporary Romance
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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 ...
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Beyond the Foothills
- Nov-1976
- / Contemporary Romance
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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 hea...
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Goblin Hill
- May-1977
- / Contemporary Romance
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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 stepso...
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Adair of Starlight Peaks
- Jan-1978
- / Contemporary Romance
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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 ...
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Spring in September
- Mar-1978
- / Contemporary Romance
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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 Forrester? If it was, she could see no reason for it. Morgan had made it plain that his heart&#...
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The Lake of the Kingfisher
- Feb-1979
- / Contemporary Romance
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Elissa could not believe things could go so wrong Elissa jumped at her Uncle Rupert Airlie'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...
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My Lady of the Fuchsias
- Sep-1979
- / Contemporary Romance
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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 ...
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One More River to Cross
- Mar-1980
- / Contemporary Romance
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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 shee...
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The Tender Leaves
- Jan-1982
- / Contemporary Romance
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Would fate again deny her a chance at love? Maria was delighted to accompany Mrs. Alberta 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 mont...
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Daughter of the Misty Gorges
- Jan-1983
- / Contemporary Romance
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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 th...
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A Mountain for Luenda
- Dec-1983
- / Contemporary Romance
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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 iso...
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MacBride of Tordarroch
- 1984
- / Contemporary Romance
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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 h...
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A Lamp for Jonathan
- May-1984
- / Contemporary Romance
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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 ma...
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Season of Forgetfulness
- Sep-1984
- / Contemporary Romance
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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...
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Winter in July
- Apr-1985
- / Contemporary Romance
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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 Tho...
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To Bring You Joy
- May-1986
- / Contemporary Romance
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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 wo...
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Autumn in April
- Nov-1986
- / Contemporary Romance
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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 w...
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High Country Governess
- Jan-1988
- / Contemporary Romance
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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'...
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So Comes Tomorrow
- 1995
- / Contemporary Romance
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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 th...
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South Horizon Man
- Jul-1995
- / Contemporary Romance
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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 th...
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Caleb's Kingdom
- 1996
- / Contemporary Romance
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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...
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Design for Life
- 1997
- / Contemporary Romance
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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 N...