When Luke finally admits to loving Kitty, she thinks their troubles are over. They are just beginning."It is a bitter thought to an avaricious spirit that by and by all these accumulations must be left behind. We can only carry away from this world the flavour of our good or evil deeds."Henry Ward BeecherKitty Stocke has loved her brother-in-law's gamekeeper for six years, ever since he saved her and her sisters from murderous villains. Luke keeps her at arms length. Social class, wealth, an age gap, and the secrets he hides stand between them.But when those secrets come to light and set him running with Paul, the boy everyone believes to be his son, Kitty follows. Luke is arrested on a false charge of murder, but Kitty marshals powerful allies who help him to prove his innocence. With the real villain behind bars, Luke at last declares his love, and he and Kitty marry.However, far to the north in Cumberland, at Paul's estate, the new family...

I've collected all my published New Zealand stories in Hearts in the Land of Ferns: Love Tales from New Zealand.The collection will come out in April, and will include two historical romance novellas and three contemporary romantic suspense novellas.HistoricalsAll that Glisters Rose is an unhappy servant to her fanatical uncle in 1960s gold-rush Dunedin. A young merchant from Canada may be her chance for happiness — if she is brave enough.Forged in Fire Forged in the fire of the 1884 Tarawera eruption, their love will create them anew.ContemporariesA Family Christmas She's hiding out. He's coming home. And there'll be storms for Christmas.Beached Bruised refugees from the New York fast lane, Nikki and Zee imagine a new life together. Until Zee's past arrives on their doorstep and washes away their coastal paradise.Abbie's Wish Abbie's Christmas wish draws three men to her mother. One of them is a monster.

The beauty known as the Winderfield Diamond hides a ruinous secret. Society's newest viscount holds the key.Sarah Winderfield has refused every offer of marriage she has received since Nathaniel Beauclair convinced her to run away with him seven years ago, and then disappeared without a word or a trace. But now she needs a husband. She has a child to love and to protect, and the child needs a father.She does not expect to meet Nate also on the marriage mart. Should she let him explain? Can she believe him?Dragged back to England to feed his father's pride in family, Nate refuses to give into the man's demands that he take a wife. Those who beat and abducted him seven years ago said the only woman he will ever love would be married within the month to a husband chosen by her father.But when he finds that Sarah is still single, he rushes to London. Surely, they can find again the promise they believed in when they were young?Through a...

When Felix returns home in disguise after 13 years, he plans to catch a smuggler then take up his viscountcy. He does not expect the smuggler to be his childhood sweetheart.

She was a fallen woman. How could the men who loved her help her land on her feet?

Fashionable London holds nothing for wealthy merchant's niece, Lalamani Finchurch. Except perhaps for an earl with a twisted hand and a charming smile. Why, for all the fortune hunters she has fended off since returning from India, is the one man who seems to likeable so against marrying for money?Philip has inherited an earldom that his only two choices are to marry for money or to abandon Society altogether and return to his work as an engineer. Which is no choice at all, until a tiny woman with beautiful eyes and a fine mind dances with him on his last night in London.When they meet again in a small country village, they join forces to uncover larceny and deceit, to rescue Lalamani's aunt from poverty, and to discover that pride is a poor reason to refuse a love for a lifetime.