What would you do if you woke up one morning and found that time had rewound exactly a year? Would you revisit your past mistakes and try to do better? Would you try to get revenge on those who had wronged you? Or would you use what you knew to get rich? When Mia finds herself in her own past, she must decide how best to use her pre-knowledge of one year’s worth of events and personal issues. But when she decides to act, her story is leaked to the press resulting in unexpected consequences and a level of danger she had not foreseen.

When Karen's boarder is shot on the street right in front of her events develop fast and before long she is under threat and possibly risking her life. Within days she must make a crucial decision whether to stay or flee to keep herself safe, and from that point her entire life changes. Can she successfully discard her identity and live under the radar in a cash-based society? Can she trust the stranger, who offers her support, or is he only after the money she is suspected of having taken? This novel explores the concept that in extraordinary situations ordinary people can draw on inner resources they never knew they possessed until their life depends on them.

Hunter Grant series book 1
Army veteran Hunter Grant thought he had left war behind in Afghanistan – a conflict that left him with physical and psychological scars. But finding an unconscious girl in the Northland bush and gradually untangling her story involves him in a war of a different kind in his own country.
Hunter sets out to find and punish the man Dao calls Master, but he soon finds there is more to this story than enslavement. Before long he himself is being hunted by the overlord of a drug empire whose sole objective is to kill Dao because she knows too much. Protecting her and waging war while trying to keep the police from stifling his enterprise takes all Hunter’s ingenuity and determination and puts him in deadly jeopardy.

Hunter Grant series book 2
Journalist Hope Barber disappears two weeks after returning to New Zealand from an assignment in Pakistan, leaving her front door open and her bag and phone inside. The police are tight-lipped about their reluctance to act, and Hunter Grant and Dao agree to help Hope’s brother Noah find her. Details about Hope’s time in Pakistan gradually emerge but only raise more questions. Was Hope under surveillance? Was she linked to terrorists? And who is the man Hope called ‘my stalker’? Hunter, who in The Chinese Proverb used his front-line Army experience to save Dao, finds himself in unknown territory. When a key person from Dao’s past life in captivity turns up, things reach crisis point, and Hunter once again takes matters of justice and retribution into his own hands.

Hunter Grant series book 3
Notes asking for help folded into tiny origami shapes and found outside a city apartment building, a physics textbook with tiny writing between the lines and a woman who abruptly resigns and disappears. Are the notes asking for help real or is it a game? Hunter Grant, ex-army and with a pragmatic view of justice, reluctantly agrees to help find the missing woman. A high-powered lawyer arrives form the US, and shortly after his meeting with Hunter and Dao a “cease and desist” letter arrives from the Cayman Islands. Inspector Bakker - a woman, who in Hunter’s words “looks as if she would be useful in a brawl, provided she was on your side” - takes instant exception to his involvement and threatens to arrest him for interfering in an investigation. Dao sets out alone on a dangerous mission, driven by a compulsive need to find out what has happened to the girl who wrote the notes, and Hunter looks death in the face when he decides to risk everything to put an end to the Darknet forces that threaten their lives.

2026 and individual freedoms are severely curtailed and state surveillance is everywhere. State Security has a Watch List, and being on it means that nothing you do or say escapes the authorities, but does the Kill List really exist? And if it does, how would you know if you were on it? Coded messages on a found burner phone, top-level government corruption and a shadowy mastermind who calls himself The Broker. In this climate of state control, three unlikely friends start quietly looking for connections and set in motion a deadly game of hide and seek that will change their lives forever. Trying to uncover the truth means risking your life, and nothing is more dangerous than searching for evidence of government corruption.

Having had nobody in her life since her husband died, Lara unexpectedly finds herself involved with three men. One is planning to use her, one she plans to use for her own ends, and one becomes a “friend-with-benefits” with surprising results. Sometimes a quiet schoolteacher is not all she seems at first glance.

Sofia Garnier is happy with her single life and her career, despite her difficult relationship with her opera singer mother. When her dementia-stricken grandfather gives a sealed letter that he refers to as a confession, Sofia finds herself in a quandary. Should she destroy the letter, or should she leave it sealed until after his death?
But sometimes things conspire to trip even the most independent, changing the course of their lives forever. Such is the case when a series of unlikely coincidences and events beyond her control, throws Sofia’s life into turmoil and force her to reconsider her choices.

Pedestrian Arapera ends up under an overturned car that careers up onto the sidewalk and she escapes without injuries, but her first concern is what happened to the little girls she tried to push out of harm’s way. Nobody at the scene saw the girls, and videos of the accident on social media ignite an intense debate about what Arapera really saw.
Arapera’s life becomes a nightmare of rumour and speculation, and she can’t get away from the pressure from news media and intense social media attention. At the same time, she is trying to deal with problems at work and an abusive father fuelled by self-righteous religious wrath - Arapera feels she has lost control of her life.
Can she trust an offer of help from a man she has only met once or is it taking one risk too many? Sometimes life is a knife-edge balance between staying safe and taking risks, and there is no way of predicting if the gamble is worth it.

When Emma finds an old letter in a library book she is instantly intrigued, but through her research into the origin of the letter she unwittingly opens the door to danger. As her life starts to unravel around her, she takes steps to protect herself, but the risk is not always where she would expect to find it. An innocent excursion turns into a nightmare, and she is forced to take a calculated risk to get away. Walking along a lonely road on a winter evening, soaking wet and shivering with cold, Emma is forced to reconsider how long she can last without help and takes a leap of blind faith into the unknown.

High powered developer Leo and ardent protester Jamie find themselves on opposite sides of a contentious issue. But as they navigate the complexities of their uneasy friendship, they begin to realize that they have more in common than they ever imagined, and despite their differences, they are increasingly attracted to each other. Through a series of fraught encounters, Jamie and Leo come to respect each other's perspectives and abilities. But as their attraction grows, so do the misunderstandings between them. When Jamie decides to disappear, she leaves Leo questioning everything he thought he knew both about her and himself. Jamie and Leo must confront their fears and trust the courage and kindness that brought them together in the first place. Will they be able to overcome their differences, or do they need help?

When crime-writer Saskia finds an unconscious stranger outside her door, she experiences a strange and strong emotional connection. Pretending to be his cousin and with no thought for the consequences, she spends weeks at his hospital bedside, talking and singing to him in the hope that he can hear her despite being in a coma.
But what happens when he wakes up and discovers she has invaded his life, breached his privacy and made crucial decisions on his behalf?
For Saskia the line between fiction and reality is often blurred, but has she gone too far this time? Brace yourself for the potential backlash in this gripping tale of unexpected connections.

Who was the stranger living in the empty house Miranda had inherited from her grandmother? Why was he living like a secretive recluse in someone else’s house? Reckless Miranda decided to confront him, and what she discovered prompted her to set out on a complex and fearless mission to bring justice to a man who had given up hope. But was the gamble too great and was the risk worth taking?

Callista experiences an event of apparent ESP at the Okehampton Castle ruins and becomes a media sensation, but the effect it has on her life is dramatic.
How do two people, one calm and one seriously claustrophobic, who feel they are poles apart, cope for an hour and a half in total darkness in a stalled lift? And can they handle the consequences?