One Hour to Midnight (39 page)
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Authors: Shirley Wine
My enduring loves are reading, my house is crowded with books on every subject imaginable. My other great hobby is gardening. Now, after a lifetime spent farming, I live with my husband in semi-retirement on the traditional Kiwi quarter acre section with a cat and a dog….and seven bird aviaries filled with canaries, budgies and parrots.
You can read more and see photos of our garden on my blog.
http://www.shirleywine.blogspot.com
Reader's Guide.
Seven For A Secret.
©Shirley Wine 2012
Seven For A Secret
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After her father's sudden death Anna Belmonte discovers she's his love child with the family au pair, Megan Anderson.
Her father's rigid Italian values, his hatred of her art, and her refusal to marry the man he'd chosen as her husband, have set Anna apart from her contemporaries.
Shocked, betrayed, her sense of self in tatters, Anna travels to New Zealand desperate to find her birthmother and unravel the secrets surrounding her birth.
When she meets Megan's stepson Slade Haultain, Anna accepts his invitation to stay on Puriri Downs and very quickly they forge strong emotional bonds.
Anna had long ago decided art and marriage was incompatible…now, with Slade, she wonders can she have it all…art, marriage and children…
But the dead hand of Anna's father reaching from beyond the grave threatens their dreams.
How can Anna ask Slade to choose between her and his family? How can she prove she wasn't a party to her father's diabolical schemes? And how can she ask Slade take her word on trust…
Lovers' Lies
© Shirley Wine 2012
Lovers' Lies
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For single mum, Victoria Scanlan, a visit to the luxurious country house of Darkhaven, is a rare chance to combine work with pleasure.
If she can secure the commission for the flowers for the upcoming society wedding it would be a huge boost for her floral boutique.
Arriving at Darkhaven, Victoria is stunned to discover the groom, banking tycoon Keir Donovan, is the man she knew as Seth Donahue, her young son's father.
Wealthy and powerful Keir, after a lifetime of being betrayed by every female in his life, has settled on a calm future with the glamorous Davina Strathmore , heiress of media mogul James Strathmore. Davina has her own devious reasons for accepting his offer of marriage and sees Victoria as a threat to her plans.
Victoria knows she has to tell Keir about their son, but decides to wait until they're no longer visitors in the Donovan family home, a decision she quickly comes to regret.
This decision is a mistake and it's too late to go back and start over. A lie by omission is still a lie, and after a lifetime of being lied to, Keir's has no tolerance for lies…
Shadow Dance….Book 1
The Mulleins of Katherine Bay
© Shirley Wine 2012
Shadow Dance
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When single mother Jenna Mullein attempts to unravel the truth behind her mother's dying words—
promise me, Jenna, promise you won't sell him the land—
she quickly discovers there are far too many people in Katherine Bay with a vested interest in muddying the truth.
Her persistent questions and determination sees her thrown into desperate danger. When one woman ends up dead and Jenna and her infant toddlers are assaulted, property developer Gabriel Callahan steps in to help her.
But can Jenna trust the loner with her secrets? Secrets that could see her lose her adored babies.
And does Gabe really want her or the family he could create with her adorable twins?
Ashlyn's Bodyguard
Bk II The Mulleins of Katherine Bay
© Shirley Wine
2012
Ashlyn's Bodyguard
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An attempt to thwart thieves goes horribly wrong and Ashlyn Pritchard is forced to flee. Cast off by her wealthy high-achieving family, and with an international criminal on her trail, she accepts Jace Mullein's offer of protection, but it comes with strings. He'll be her bodyguard, twenty-four-seven—if she marries him.
As the danger escalates, Ashlyn learns to trust Jace. Then she discovers the truth about his past. It's too late to retreat, but she needs to question everything about the man she has come to love. Does she mean anything to him at all, or is Jace using her only to exact revenge for past slights?
Return to Totara Park
© Shirley Wine 2012
Return To Totara Park
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Winsome Grainger left Totara Park with a terrible secret in her heart and a darker secret in her past vowing never to return. A vow shattered when she and her estranged husband, Jared each inherit a half share in Totara Park, the Grainger Dynasty's Estate.
Under the terms of Jared's father's Will, he and Winsome must live on Totara Park together for two years or the Estate will be sold. Unable to live with the knowledge that, through her, Jared stands to lose his heritage, Winsome reluctantly returns with their four year old daughter Lacey.
Unsure of her husband's support, she suffers the guilt of the damned. Never possessing the courage to confide these dark secrets in Jared, Winsome has time to regret never telling him why she walked out on their marriage, why she left him, or why she left Totara Park.
Now these secrets threaten not only her shaky marriage and her love for Jared, they threaten her precious child's life, her own life…Filled with foreboding, she discovers she's a mere pawn in a dark and deadly game. A game whose rules she doesn't know…
Review by Love Romance
Rating: 4.5 Hearts
This book was deftly written. The story has it all - mystery, intrigue, betrayal and romance. It has well developed characters…who leave an indelible impression on the reader. This was a very enjoyable read and I look forward to the next book by the author. © Love Romances, 2001-2003. All Rights Reserved.
Yesterday's Sins
© Shirley Wine 2012
Yesterday's Sins
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“Where my family comes from we believe in an eye for an eye…a life for a life…”
These words changed Catriona's life forever.
After years of running from a past she cannot bear to remember, a bouquet of flowers, unlooked for and unwanted, makes Kate Audley look over her shoulder in trepidation.
For eight years, the successful real estate agent has lived under an assumed name in the tiny South Auckland village of Clevedon after fleeing Australia and the man who threw her life into chaos.
Eight years in which Kate has had time in plenty to regret the impulsive decision that saw her visit Alexandros Korda in a bid to clear her name.
Now he has found her.
Yesterday's Sins is the captivating story of a woman's attempt to resist the man she loves to hate and Alex's equally determined commitment that she won't succeed.
On her eighteenth birthday a freak accident that killed his nephew, brought Alexandros Korda into Catriona's life.
Seven years later, she is trying to forget the horror that followed and the daughter they has together.
Can she succeed?
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