\\True love never does run smooth - but there is a price to pay for giving up\\ When Ashley catches Daniel with another woman in a compromising situation, her love is deeply shaken, and she questions the bedrock of their relationship. To find herself and heal her broken heart, she comes to Settler’s Ridge, a remote mountain village in New Zealand. Falling in love with the slower pace of village life, she has to rethink her values and what’s important to fight for. Can Daniel redeem himself and prove that he’s the victim of a set-up? He realizes their ten-year relationship is at stake and asks his friend Mark, a private investigator, to help him. They’re faced with unraveling a string of incidences that get increasingly more serious and life-threatening. When things get heated, all he wants is to keep Ashley safe … but can he?

Lonely isn't a feeling when you're alone ~ Lonely is a feeling when no one cares. Emily has one thing going for her—besides the couple of million dollars the insurance paid out when her parents died in an accident: She’s the best pal anyone could wish for. Everyone sees her as a friend, but nobody looks at her as a potential lover or wife. At thirty-eight, she’s sure it’s because of the limp she’s been born with. She’s resigned that her love for Miles, her best friends for as long as they can remember, will never be returned. The more surprised she is when Miles declares his love and asks her to marry him. But nothing is as it seems …

Keysha Simmons is not reaching for the stars. All she wants is to stay alive and out of prison. Keeping to herself and hiding in Settler’s Ridge is her proven strategy—as long as they don’t know where to find her. When helicopter pilot Tyrell sees Keysha ready to jump off a bridge, he does what he always does: he comes to the rescue. However, he quickly learns nothing is as it looks, and not every beautiful woman needs rescuing. At first glance, it seems these two hermits have nothing in common. But he’s ready to help when a nosy reporter thinks she’s found in Keysha, the fugitive and long-lost heiress of the House of D’Arbanville, the famous Melbourne fashion empire. Staying alive and out of prison is suddenly not that simple anymore. Sick and tired of being scared all the time, she decides to turn the table on her family and clear her name. With Tyrell at her side and the help of a handful of new friends, she’s ready to fight back. Can Tyrell help Keysha get justice and be able to trust love again? Or is she another one he can’t rescue?

He forces her to marry him ~ but she only wants to keep her freedom The remote mountain village is part of Nurse Stephanie as are the people living there. They support her in her dream of building a rehabilitation center in their valley. All crashes down when her father almost kills an influential millionaire. Reluctantly she agrees to marry and care for him to keep her father out of prison, already devising a plan for her freedom. But don’t they say Man makes plans...God laughs? Architect Sean had the best part of his life ahead of him when an accident cost him his legs. What’s a man worth without his legs? All he thinks of is giving up and taking revenge. Someone has to pay; someone has to be punished. The nurse with the crazy idea that he’ll walk again one day is the ideal person for his plans. But nothing goes to plan. Ripped out of his millionaire lifestyle, he finds himself engulfed in everyday backwater life. Designing chicken coups instead of award-winning buildings, he gets to see a different side of life. Can he start a new life? Ko au te awa - ko te awa ko au ... I am the river, the river is me Settler’s Ridge is a small mountain village on the Whanganui river in the heart of New Zealand’s mountainous wilderness. Time has stood still, and the four-hundred residents are short on words and big on helping each other.

When the circus comes to town, all bets are off. Down-to-earth farmer George falls in love with the ringmaster of the traveling circus Romano. George Williams is like his name—nice, kind, and easy-going. He’s content with the life he’s carved out in Settler’s Ridge. Malia Romano is doing a man’s job in a cutthroat world. Running a circus is not for the faint-hearted. You must be single-minded… and she is. The circus is her world. When these two meet, feelings are stirred that none of them is prepared for… and don’t have time for when bullets fly, and heavy things come crashing down. They say opposites attract, but Is there a future for these two from two different worlds? ko au te awa - ko te awa ko au ... I am the river, the river is me Time has stood still in Settler's Ridge, a small mountain village on the banks of the Whanganui River in the heart of New Zealand. The Four hundred residents may be short on words, but they are big on helping each other.