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When snow isolates East Ridge Pasts are revealed Acquaintances become friends And Friends lovers Rivals become ruthless Stalkers murderous And human nature is exposed Ebook Sites $US2.99 Paperback Coming for $US9.99
When the remote settlement of East Ridge in the South Island of New Zealand is isolated during a snowstorm, Renee and Tyler take in three travellers. Without electricity or mobile phone contact and with all the roads around closed, the five are completely cut off from the world. There, they begin to bond and help one another with problems in their lives.
Renee is now living with her partner…
Our last scene from Snow Bond. Watch this space for release date.
Another scene from our new novel that will be published soon.
When snow isolates East Ridge Pasts are revealed Acquaintances become friends And Friends lovers Rivals become ruthless Stalkers murderous And human nature is exposed * Our new novel will be out soon.
Silence reigned on that winter’s day in 1999. Everywhere Niana looked there was nothing but virgin snow, with no footprints or tire marks beyond where the vehicle turned. A watery sun cast its light from a pale blue sky. The rest of the morning was but a numb memory as the hungry, freezing, pregnant woman staggered along the mountain road. Every bend lead to another and every step crunched…
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 different life flash spasmodically into their minds.
Their dreams seem so real but are quite unrelated to their present…
New Cover- Same great family saga
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Claire – Life in 1961 was’t easy
The liberated 60s have not reached the shores of New Zealand when Claire, a single pregnant girl is sent up-country to have her child, which is to be adopted out.
The Sloane family are strangers who offer to board her through this time.
But are they?
Claire is thrust into the unknown when, immediately after her arrival, Alan and Hazel Sloane are involved in a truck accident on the farm. It is up…
Our all time top selling Sci/Fict Novel- New Cover
The armlet Kolina Lagerfelt is given by her dying grandmother is more than a piece of jewellery. It has been handed down through the family for countess generations.
Kolina places the armlet on and is 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…
I have decided to change the name of my latest novel to Flurry of Snow. This is a contemporary novel in the tradition of Like Twigs in a Storm and Broken Silence, being set in New Zealand, my homeland.
At the moment it is half written and should be out by the end of the year.
The search of a millennium is over. Computers aboard Intergalactic Starship Omega find a planet with water and oxygen in usable quantities to sustain humanoid life. It is over populated, polluted and has one social problem; forty eight percent of the human population are males, well beyond the one in a thousand necessary on Planet Delta to maintain the sperm banks.
However, the humanoids aboard…
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Our New Covers for 2016
Throughout 2016 we have been upgrading our book covers .Here they are altogether. These of our outlets are using these covers including Amazon and outlets serviced by Draft2Digital that now carries 25 or our novels.
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While converting a closed country school into a summer batch near Wellington, New Zealand, Steve Garnet meets neighbour, Lavina Ryland. Their friendship soon develops into a romance that hurtles them into danger and changes their lives and the life of Lavina’s daughter, Cathy forever.
Grant Ryland learns about his wife’s infidelity and, in a drunken rage, drugs Lavina, Cathy and Steve. He…
Doctor Reid Tucker’s intention to spend the summer at a remote cabin at Eagle’s Claw Lake in northeast Washington State with only his dog, Cinders, never eventuates.
On the trip there, pilot Kate Meltz calls in with the amphibian to a commune at the other end of the lake. While there, Reid pulls a desperate teenage girl, Lorie Somerville, from the water. This begins a frightening time as…
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When the Longships Came | The Druid’s Daughter | Meztli- Sacrificial Maiden
Book 1 Emerald Eyes Destiny | Book 2 Emerald Eyes Mist | Book 3 Emerald Eyes Pyramid
If magic arises unchecked to breed upon itself, it is unstoppable and the balance of good and evil will be compromised forever.
Quotes from “The Great Book of Everything That Will Be.”
In the days of old when knights ruled the land of Castle Rockshade, Kyla Kiro does not want to be forced into marrying the evil Sir Edwin O’Hane. She persuades Shane Wynex the man she really loves to escape with…
Time Ripple
Aari can save Earth by placing it in a time ripple. However, because of the space-time phenomena it may or may not happen. If it doesn’t, Aari and her world does not exist. However she has no memory of what has, or will happen. If it doesn’t, Aari and her world does not exist. But she is on Earth now, with no memory of what has, or will happen. Can cosmologist, Dr Nareen O’Grady…
Azure Sea Gold
In April 1945 U-boat U-2072 carrying Nazi gold heads to Argentina. On board is Kapitanleutnant Friedrichand’s fiancée, Kristin Dassmer. The U-boat is sunk by American torpedo bombers off the Bahamas. Kristin finds herself in a lifeboat with Bern Munkelt, the man she is to spend the rest of her life with. They are rescued by Danardo Rolle and taken to a remote island where her…
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My characters are stranded in a South Island New Zealand snowstorm and talk about their lives.It will possibly be finished by the end of the year. Meanwhile, I have about twenty contemporary novels to choose from. Visit
We are thrilled to announce that many of our novels are now published through Draft2Digital. They are available though the sites shown in the icons at the top right.
Paperback versions of our latest two novels are now published at Createspace through our latest publisher Draft2Digital for $US10.99 Meztli-Sacrificial Maiden \ Solar Search. Our usual ebook versions are $US2.99 at all top ebook stores.
Our latest eight novels are now being distributed through Draft2Digital. The links below will take you to B&N who sell many of our novels.
Set in New Zealand, these novels are influenced by Ross’s teaching career. Available at all top ebook outlets with the links below going to Smashwords. Wisps Trilogy | Book 1 Wisps of Cloud | Book 2 Wisps of Snow | Book 3 Wisps of Wisdom Other Novels | Blemished Jewel | Wind Across the Playground
Available at all main ebook outlets. Our links are mainly to Smashwords. Behind the Fire | Affinity and Trust | Jana Adrift Stretched Horizons | Long Valley Road | Like Twigs in a Storm Claire | Azure Sea Gold | Catalyst
Links to Smashwords. Also available at most other outlets Solar Search | Acid Air |Embrace the Fog | Cosmos Quest | Transmigration Time Ripple | Time Genes | Time Portal
In the last days of an interspecies war, Tara Fye is given control of Yolk 3 a secret spaceship and ordered to seek out a new world.
Our Latest Science Fiction Novel
Solar Search by Ross Richdale
ISBN 978-1-877438-77-6
In the last days of an interspecies war, Captain Tara Fye is given control of Yolk 3, a secret spaceship hidden on an asteroid orbiting Earth. She ordered to activate the Earth’s final defence system against the enemy of hexapods, six legged insect species and their allies, electronic entities. The planet is sealed both physically and…
The third in our Ancient Ancestors series is set in 1530 AD Inca times. Meztli is rescued from a sacrificial site before she dies of exposure.
Buy at Amazon Wisps of Cloud | Wisps of Snow | Wisps of Wisdom
Stretched Horizons
In New Zealand the small commuter aircraft crashes in thick bush country. The pilot is killed and English tourists Jenny and Bree try to survive by themselves. Police in England tell Colin, Bree has been involved in an air crash and is missing. He flies out to New Zealand but his intentions are not those one would expect from a worried husband…
Behind the…
Wisps of Cloud
After leaving a city school, Karla moves to become a principal of a remote country school where her partner has a farm. Tensions arise in the district with a marijuana plantation discovered near the farm and a local bikie gang being suspected as the growers. However, nothing is as it first seems, potential enemies become friends and the trusted, untrustworthy.
Wis…
