New Zealand Historic Fiction Series

Elizabeth’s Diaries

Elizabeth and Gordon Tregowarth begin their married life on Duffield Station in Skippers Canyon in 1887. When tragedy strikes, Elizabeth's life spirals into an unimaginable horror. The story then jumps a hundred years to the current owners of Duffield Station and follows their turbulent, traumatic and ever-changing life on the high-country station.

A chance discovery, by a visitor to the farm, creates a link to the past. This helps to unravel the mystery of the tragedy that Elizabeth and Gordon suffered one hundred years earlier.

Brigit - the sequel to Elizabeth’s Diaries

When Brigit, born and raised on a high country sheep station in NZ meets and marries Jax, the son of a cattle station owner in Outback Australia, her strength and tenacity are put to the test. The differences between living in high country NZ and Outback Australia are as diverse as you can get. Brigit proves she is gutsy enough to take on anything, that is until one tragic event brings her to her knees and sends her back to her high country home in NZ.

Isolation

Inspired by a true story and based on fact, ISOLATION, set in the mid 1800's, tells of newly wed colonists Meghan and James Morley, who travel from England to try their hand at high country sheep farming in NZ. The terrain, while stunning, is harsh and unforgiving, the living conditions tough and challenging. Meghan and James suffer many challenges that will test them to their limits.

Some early NZ settlers succeeded in their endeavors but many others did not survive the first 3 years.

Historic fiction and Travel

Nellie

1853, London, England. Nellie is encouraged to travel with her two companions to New Zealand, leaving behind her sad and tragic past. She thrives in her new life in the colonies until she returns to London to settle the estate of her late uncle, of which she is the only heir. As soon as she arrives in London she is dragged back into the past and must deal with a situation she was not prepared for.

When Nellie arrives back in New Zealand almost a year later, she finds her life there has been torn apart, leaving her once again having to face a situation she was not expecting. She is forced to start a new life in a new town, but at least now she has enough funds to rebuild her life and start again. Five years later someone from Nellie's past walks back into her life and her world turns upside down leaving her fighting for her life. The one person who has been a thorn in Nellie's side since she first stepped foot in New Zealand now faces her own challenges because of this, and finds she too is fighting for survival, high up in the mountains, in a world she never knew existed..

NZ’s Wild West Coast

Join tour guide Tess. and bus driver Richard as they tour New Zealand’s beautiful Wild West Coast with a group of lovely Kiwi Senior Citizens on board. Experience the drama as an unexpected out-of-the-blue event throws their plans into chaos and leaves them shaken.

Better buckle up though, it’s gonna be a bumpy ride.

The tour itinerary, tour operators and the places described in this book are very real, however; the storyline is a fabricated version of events that may or may not have happened during the tour; after all, what happens on tour stays on tour, if you catch my drift. Likewise, the people are a mishmash of the hundreds of wonderful personalities I have met during my 15 years as a tour operator and tour guide. In no way are any of the characters intended to depict anyone living or otherwise.

Aussie Outback

Whenever someone asks me what the most memorable tour was during my 15 years as a tour operator and tour guide, I never hesitate to say - this one - THE FLINDERS AND BIRDSVILLE TOUR.

When I look back on it, I often wonder how we got away with it. This is a true story of a group of Kiwi Seniors who travelled through Outback Australia in 2008. The group survived, but sadly the bus did not.

Murder Mystery and Suspense

Finding Lucy

Deadly Reunion and other stories

Blind faith, naivety and trust meet a new reality in a remote luxury hideaway.

James was handsome, successful, wealthy. Lucy was besotted. When James offered Lucy and her friends an all-expenses paid trip to a luxury lodge in an isolated part of New Zealand's beautiful Marlborough Sounds, they didn't hesitate. This decision would test their survival skills to the limit and open Lucy's eyes to a world she never knew existed.

Deadly Reunion is a collection of short stories. The first ​story, Deadly Reunion, tells of five women who reunite ​at a school reunion. A few months later they are invited ​to one of the women's lakeside cabins for a girl's ​weekend. Unfortunately for them they have been lured ​into a trap, this reunion does not go well.

Who's you Daddy is the story of two young children ​whose mother dies leaving them orphaned. Having ​never known who their father was or if he was even ​still alive, they run off in the hopes of finding some ​relatives to live with rather than being split up and ​placed in separate foster homes.

Dreams are Free is about a middle-aged woman whose ​family have grown up and left home while her husband ​has decided to show his affections elsewhere. Where ​does she go from here, should she take the risk of ​trying something new or should she stay where she is ​and continue on with her lonely, boring life?

Stella is offered a modelling job of a lifetime but what ​was supposed to be a simple assignment turns out to ​be something totally unexpected and rather sinister.

The Co-Op is a simple story of friendship and justice.

Confessions of a Tour Guide are some true stories from ​my on-tour experiences.