When terrorists attack and sink a container ship five passengers survive and land on a Pacific Ocean atoll. Jana and her four companions must live together and survive. This romantic thriller is author Ross Richdale's eigthteenth novel.Jana and Kelsie are passengers on the container ship Konstellation on a Pacific Ocean cruisealong with artist Rowan Clardy and an elderly couple, Hank and Denise Thorpe. The Konstellation is attacked, terrorists seize the ship and strip it of all communication and electronic equipment. The five passengers hide in an empty container and later make it to a Pacific atoll. Problems arise when they attempt to live together. Jana and Rowan begin a romance. Hank is not the pleasant old guy Jana at first thought but a predator who begins a relationship with Kelsie. Other problems include a storm, a fever that Jana catches and the complete absence of any shipping in the area.
After a month the castaways attract the attention of the first boat going by but is it a case of getting into worse danger? The fishing boat that comes into the lagoon to rescue them is flying the North Korean flag.

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HISTORICAL DRAMA - CLAIRE

Neil Johnston a young school teacher arrives to take charge of a two teacher rural school at Ashleyvale in the South Island of New Zealand with his partner, liberated Lisa. She is just one of the five women who has a profound affect on his life through the next quarter a century.

Margaret, a promiscuous farmer's wife engulfs Neil like a spider and almost tears his relationship with Lisa apart. Afterwards there is a tragedy, Kelly, the assistant teacher in the junior room at Ashleyvale and decisions to be made. Neil matures quickly and when faced with an ultimatum by the woman who loves him, makes a decision that involves shifting back home to the North Island with one woman and away from the other.

Two girls also affect his life, Wendy a pupil at Ashleyvale and his daughter Alexia who, as a baby, unknowingly provides comfort and love. There are changes as society moves through the decades.

This is a story of a naive young man who is influenced by the women around him, who matures, lives life to the fullest and becomes a leader in his chosen profession. There are tragedies along the way, changing attitudes and the profound love that keeps him going through good times and bad.

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In their escape from the invading German Wehrmacht, Countess Vladisciuszko, gives her daughter a Swiss numbered bank account card and tells her never to lose it. Moments later the train is bombed and the countess is killed. Jozef Wishnowsky, an airforce officer on the train, rescues Anna and manages to get her to an airfield and onto an airplane flying to England.

In England, with a British identity as Anna Green, the youngster is placed in an orphanage. She helps Sally and Johnny, two other orphans who are victims of the sadistic supervisor Vera Johnston .

Later, Johnny, Sally and Anna are given new identities and are sent as refugees to Canada. Their ship is sunk by German U-boats and they barely survive weeks in a lifeboat. After being rescued they are sent to New Zealand with new identities as brother and sisters. Complications follow in later years when Anna and Johnny (now called John) fall in love.The conservative society of the 1950s charge John with incest after Anna becomes pregnant. They have to prove their real identities. This leads to Anna's aristocratic background being discovered. Polish communists seek her out for assassination. Her attempt to become an ordinary citizen is thwarted.

Can the communists be intercepted before they carry out their plan and how does this affect Anna and her family?

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It is April 1945 and an U-boat heads out of Hamburg for the last time. In its hold, the torpedoes have been replaced by gold and Nazi loot. The destination is Argentina. On board, ruthless Kapitanleutnant Falk Friedrich has brought his fiancee, Kristin Dassler.

U-2072 is attacked by American torpedo bombers off the Bahamas and sunk. Kristin finds herself in a lifeboat with three others including Bern Munkelt, the man she is to spend the rest of her life with. They are rescued by Danardo Rolle and taken to Little Toe Cay a remote island where Kristin's adventures continue when they discover a U-boat base and the gold which they hide.

"Azure Sea Gold " is an adventure, a love story and the story of greed, jealousy and ruthless people as well as a family story centered around three generations of women and their loved ones. It will make the reader enthralled and enraptured by the sheer pace and excitement, common in a Ross Richdale novel.

Teenagers Abbey and Cooper in their final year at a high school in Sydney, Australia both have problems they are trying to escape from and run away together. They head north towards Queensland over a remote interior highway in Cooper's van. They are chased by an another vehicle. In panic they turn off the highway and attempt to use their vehicle's four wheel drive capabilities to lose the car.   It may have worked if it wasn't for one of the notorious Australian bushfires.   Both the van and car are cut off from the highway by the encircling bushfire.

An Aboriginal man, Darel Hadfield helps the pair escape from their pursuers and takes them through the bush into a cave of his ancestors that goes right through the hills into an extinct volcanic valley . Inside is a retreat for elderly Aborigines and children. But why has it been kept hidden for generations?

How do the two teenagers survive in this remote land and what new problems do they face? You will be gripped by Abbey's plight and will want to remain with her until the very last page is turned.
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Gail Fernhill, newly appointed of principal of Queen Anne's Girls' School in Dunedin, New Zealand is haunted by her past but befriends new property manager Neil Goodall. Neil pierces her reserve to support and help her when he discovers that as a teenager, she killed her abusive father in self-defence.

  However, the case is reopened after the discovery of her father's rifle. Inspector Peter Carrington attempts, by fair means or foul, to build up a murder case against Gail and directs Tania Brogan, an undercover police officer employed by the school as a teacher, to find evidence. However, after an accident involving a bus load of pupils on a ski trip Tania switches her allegiance to help Gail but unwittingly plays into Carrington's hand.

Intertwining with Gail and Neil's growing love and the conflicts of school life, the problems deepen when John McKendrick arrives at school and attempts to abduct his daughter Penny. Gail and Neil intervene but Gail is wounded and, with Neil and Penny, abducted.

Is Gail's successful life as a principal about to be cut short by her past? And what of her abduction? Is Neil's love enough to help the blemished jewel through these trying times?

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When Sunset Grove Primary's Headteacher, Bree Ashworth goes to help teacher Jenny Dench in her classroom she is attacked by an intruder. The attacker escapes and Bree is taken to hospital. Her husband Colin arrives and tells her he is leaving to move from London with his mistress Linda Rouke.

Bree has bookings to attend a reading conference in New Zealand over that country's summer vacation. With double tickets bought and Colin gone, she invites Jenny to come with her.

In New Zealand the small commuter aeroplane they fly in crashes in thick bush country. The pilot is killed and Jenny and Bree try to survive by themselves. However, all is not lost, for a tramper in the bush, Ray Barnett and his dog, Pattie find them.

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Astrid is a teenage girl who has to adapt to life in a small coastal Oregon town where she moves in with her grandfather after her mother dies.

She is a talented artist who uses her paintings to express her feelings of the world around her. Her talent begins to show in a painting she does as an epitaph to her mother and is continued with other paintings that reflect events in her life.

The climax of the novel comes when an earthquake sets a tsunami up off the Oregon coast. There is little warning and decisions need to be made quickly. The exciting conclusion changes Astrid, her grandfather's and the citizens of Hook Bay lives forever.

There is an a cave-in at Misty Depths Catacombs, Wyoming and newly graduated lawyer, Renee Bonnet finds herself stranded with a broken leg and two strangers, Lem a business man and a runaway teenager, Courtney.
The scene is set for a gripping action story as the victims learn to trust and depend on each other not knowing whether they will survive the ordeal.All will be revealed in this electrifying romantic drama that combines the sheer force of nature with the frailty of human emotions, greed, jealousy, passion, companionship and love. You will see the world through the character's eyes to laugh, weep and fall in love with them. This is a rescue story that does not stop when the victims are rescued but continues, as real life does, to mould new lives for three lonely people.

The cave is the catalyst but what happens afterwards depends on the new catalyst, Renee, who finds herself drawn into the lives of her new found companions. And her own life is altered for ever.

While converting an old school to a summer batch near Wellington, New Zealand, Steve Garnet meets neighbor, Lavina Ryland. Their friendship soon develops into a forbidden romance that hurtles them into danger and changes their lives and the life of Lavina's daughter forever.
Grant Ryland learns about his wife's infidelity and, in a drunken rage, drugs Lavina, their daughter, and Steve. He abducts them and brutally abandons the trio on an isolated mountaintop airstrip above bush covered ranges, at least four day's walking distance from the nearest road.

Facing an onslaught of life-threatening perils, including frostbite, raging icy rapids, and violent storms, the abandoned trio struggle to survive and find their way back to civilization.

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When terrorists attack and sink a container ship five passengers survive and land on a Pacific Ocean atoll. Jana and her four companions must live together and survive. This romantic thriller is author Ross Richdale's eigthteenth novel.Jana and Kelsie are passengers on the container ship Konstellation on a Pacific Ocean cruisealong with artist Rowan Clardy and an elderly couple, Hank and Denise Thorpe. The Konstellation is attacked, terrorists seize the ship and strip it of all communication and electronic equipment. The five passengers hide in an empty container and later make it to a Pacific atoll. Problems arise when they attempt to live together. Jana and Rowan begin a romance. Hank is not the pleasant old guy Jana at first thought but a predator who begins a relationship with Kelsie. Other problems include a storm, a fever that Jana catches and the complete absence of any shipping in the area.
After a month the castaways attract the attention of the first boat going by but is it a case of getting into worse danger? The fishing boat that comes into the lagoon to rescue them is flying the North Korean flag.

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In 1999 Kosovar refugee Niana Bolsa is abandoned in the mountains by the Serbs to fend for herself. In freezing temperatures, the distraught woman staggers along an empty road through virgin snow. At the point of near collapse she comes across a tractor and trailer by the roadside with two terrified children hiding there. Their grandparents have been shot and their mother taken away. Determined to save the children, Niana takes them and heads for Albania. At the border she's shot and her unborn child is killed. With all records destroyed, nobody queries her right to the children and they emigrate to New Zealand.

Matt Coleman is attracted to the new tenant of his New Zealand shop, Niana Bolsa, when she opens a food bar adjacent to his antique and furniture factory. Niana is reluctant to commit herself beyond friendship and says little about her life. Eventually, friendship between Niana and Matt blossoms into an abiding and passionate love as they and Niana's foster children become a family.

But the terror so prevalent in Niana's past surfaces again--with a vengeance. Those thought dead make a return appearance, and the Serbs track Niana to her new home--brutally exterminating her friends along the way. This incredibly fast-moving story has action to thrill you as well as romantic appeal.

When Talya is sucked into a wormhole she arrives in a new world where humans are primitive villagers pursued by hexalimbs, six limbed creatures, for food. Along with Gavin, also stranded from Earth, they rescue and befriend Kysum, a tailed humanoid who can metamorphose into other beings, from a hexalimb spaceship.

In an ongoing fight against the aliens they search for a way home. In doing so, they transverse time-space to alter the course of history in this far off universe.

But who is really in control?

Will it be possible to ever return home?

But does Earth even exist?

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When Jasmin is caught in the terrorist attack on the London underground in 2005, her terrified thoughts help her. As does similar terror for identical women; Katherine in the year 1310, Trudie in 1874, Giselle in 1945 and Zarine in 2374. They are are awoken on the planet Cerowain as electrical charges contained within crystal balls in 2341. With Zarine's knowledge and the base's computer they are given new physical bodies and find they are like identical sisters.

They must find out about themselves and also ward off the spunoids, a spider like intelligent species who are at war with humanoids in this time.

Why are they there and why did they all suffer a terrorizing attack before arriving? And is their own future being controlled by something else in the vast universe that transcends time and space?

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Transmigration: (of the soul) pass into a different body- Concise Oxford Dictionary.

Four humans find themselves in a small village of Betaham without knowledge of where they come from or who they are. It is a pleasant little town but disturbing memories of a brutal war and

A bombed out city is on the other side of the hills and can be reached though a railway tunnel. The trouble is that the city was destroyed a millennium before and is an archeological site visited by the farmer's race who arrived from another planet.

Only then do the four learn the truth about themselves...

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Anu is possibly the last Blue, an advanced humanoid race. She must be protected so the genes of her species are passed onto future generations. The computers aboard create an environment for Anu and the humans, Talbot, Erin and Matt. It is an hallucinatory world so the four aboard don't realise they are alone and it works well.

This is until a minor accident causes Talbot to find out that his real existence is a deserted derelict city. He finds Anu, convinces her the world they live in is false and together they search for the truth. They find Erin, a human girl alone and pregnant, a road system that goes nowhere and discover they are not even on a planet but inside one. And where is the man who impregnated Erin?

This man is Matt, alone and lost in another section of the asteroid.
How do Anu, Talbot and Erin find him? How does the damaged environment hinder their search? How do the last inhabitants in a damaged intergalactic cruiser fight the odds, where are they heading and what of the world they left behind?

The world of Myco is at war. Two sisters, Kolina and Sofia Lagerfelt are amongst the thousands of refugees fleeing the advancing enemy. A jeep arrives beside them and an army officer takes them to their dying grandmother, Olivier Lagerfelt who hands Kolina an armlet to wear.

Kolina places the armlet on and is immediately connected to Eboff, a voice in her mind. Eboff is an advanced computer with news that she is the descendant of a starship crew that crashed on the planet a millennium before. Only when other ancestors of this crew are found that technology far superior to that now known on the planet can be accessed to save the world from annihilation.

So begins a journey for the sisters to trace the lost ancestors. It not only takes them through a war torn land but back through the centuries.

By traveling through a mysterious time fog is it possible that they altered history and caused the problems in the first place?

Two female babies shall be taken from the realms of darkness to grow up in a distant land. They shall return as maidens of beauty to save the world from corruption and evil.

Quote from "The Great Book of Everything That Will Be."

In the days of old when knights ruled the land of Castle Rockshade, Kyla Kiro is one of the selected maidens. However, she does not want to be forced to marry the evil Sir Edwin O'Hane and persuades Shane Wynex the man she really loves to escape with her to the surrounding forest.Kyla has friends from the forest who can help, from Sliver a transman, half human and half tree to the forest dwarfs and talking birds.

Edwin selects another bride, this time Jaythen Gardan. She suffers badly and cries out for help. The forest animals hear her call, she is rescued and teams up with Kyla and Shane. Unbeknown to either of them these two young woman were the babies evacuated from a war torn land twenty years earlier and the prophecies from The Great Book of Everything That Will Be are about to be played out.
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The second novel in the Emerald Eyes Trilogy starts on the non-magical Earth. Cindy and Sylvia from Emerald Eyes Destiny are skating on a lake when astrange mist swirls in and a little bird arrives with a message on his leg asking for help.

They travel through a magical void to another world and find Muftin, the bird, can speak. A dwarf, Gikre is with Tulco, a girl with emerald eyes like their own. She is caught in a bear trap set by human invaders trying to catch them.

After freeing Tulco from the trap Cindy and Sylvia help her to escape from the humans. However, they must cope with strange mists called vapin that appear to come in two forms; a white one helps them but a red one is a terrible enemy.

They are told to head to White Sword Peninsular, far away up the coast. For some reason the humanoids cannot leave the peninsular. Why is this so and what is the dark secret held by these people? What of the strange mists? Are they just a force or something alive?

As Cindy loses her magical powers, Tulco gains them. The youngster matures at a phenomenal rate to become a woman the same age as Cindy and Sylvia. Why is this so? How does she use her special powers to solve the problems in this magical world?
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In this third adventure, the Emerald Eyes wizards find themselves in a land a millennium back in time. Xentrix the dragon is with them and they rescue a flying girl about to be sacrificed on a pyre in front of a pyramid.

She is Kondel a Pyram, a humanoid creature with wings who live inside magical pyramids. The enemy in this world are ancient human priests determined to eliminate all flying creatures from their land. Birds have already disappeared and it appears that Kondel is the last of her species left.

Cindy, Sylvia and the others set out to find the truth about the evil priests and search for Kondel's kind. Will their magical powers be enough to overwhelm the priests who appear immortal with the ability to travel through time? And why are the tiny birds so important in this latest quest?

All will be revealed in this third story of the Emerald Eyes trilogy. Remember, it is a complete story in its own right and can be read even if you have not followed the earlier Emerald Eyes adventures.