Deborah Challinor Livres

When 18-year-old Kitty Carlisle's father dies unexpectedly in Norfolk in 1838 Kitty and her mother are left impoverished. After Kitty is discovered in a compromising position with an unscrupulous adventurer her reputation is left in shreds. In desperation her mother banishes Kitty to the colonies in disgrace under the guardianship of her dour missionary uncle and his long-suffering wife. Against the backdrop of the wild and unruly Bay of Islands in the period leading up to the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi Kitty meets and falls in love with Ryan Farrell a rude aloof and atheistic ships captain. When she discovers he is also a gun runner her loyalties are torn and her tempestuous nature leads to an estrangement. The path to true love is tortuous involving rampaging Maori war parties illicit sexual liaisons and incarceration in Sydney's Hyde Park Barracks forgery betrayal and death at sea. A tempestuous romance and a lively adventure with a fiery and memorable heroine Kitty is a stand-alone novel with potential as an ongoing saga of love and adventure on the high seas in the Pacific of the 1800s by one of our leading historical novelists.

When 18-year-old Kitty Carlisle's father dies unexpectedly in Norfolk in 1838, Kitty and her mother are left impoverished. After Kitty is discovered in a compromising position with an unscrupulous adventurer, her reputation is left in shreds. In desperation, her mother banishes Kitty to the colonies in disgrace, under the guardianship of her dour missionary uncle and his long-suffering wife. Against the backdrop of the wild and unruly Bay of Islands in the period leading up to the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi, Kitty meets and falls in love with Ryan Farrell, a rude, aloof and atheistic ships captain. When she discovers he is also a gun runner, her loyalties are torn and her tempestuous nature leads to an estrangement. The path to true love is tortuous, involving rampaging Maori war parties, illicit sexual liaisons and incarceration in Sydney's Hyde Park Barracks, forgery, betrayal and death at sea. A tempestuous romance and a lively adventure with a fiery and memorable heroine, Kitty is a stand-alone novel, with potential as an ongoing saga of love and adventure on the high seas in the Pacific of the 1800s, by one of our leading historical novelists.

Book three in the best-selling Smuggler's Wife series by one of our leading historical novelists. Kitty Farrell, headstrong and passionate as ever, is heartbroken over the apparent death by drowning of her husband Rian. Alone and grieving on the goldfields of Ballarat she turns to Rian's long-time shipmate Daniel, who has loved her from afar for many years. The consequences will be disastrous and challenge every character in this brilliant third instalment in Deborah Challinor's extraordinary Smuggler's Wife series. Vividly drawn, meticulously researched and driven by a powerful page-turning narrative, Band of Gold will resonate in the hearts of readers for a long time. 'Challinor is extraordinarily talented.' - New Zealand Books

In 1951 some 1000 Waikato Miners went on strike to support their brothers in the Seaman's Union engaged in the 1951 Waterfront Lockout. times were tough and when the Government implemented harsh and heavy-handed emergency regulations, families were divided along political lines, and bitter accusations of sabotage and treachery began to tear small mining communities apart. Against this emotive backdrop, in the tiny mining village of Pukemiro, a story of love and treachery is also being played out in the personal lives of some of those intimately connected with the strike. Ellen McCabe, wife of the local union secretary and hero, thomas McCabe, and a life-long Union woman, finds herself caught up the passion of the fight and a new found passion of her own - when a charismatic war veteran, Jack Vaughan comes to Pukemiro and befriends her husband. In a powerful tale of love and conflict Ellen is forced to examine her loyalties and make heart shattering choices, as the country and community around her is pulled apart. A full-blooded romance set in times of conflict, Union will do for the Waikato what Denniston Rose did for the West Coast - and much more.

When Kitty and Rian Farrell sail their schooner Katipo III into Dunedin Harbour in 1863, they are on tenterhooks. The new Otago goldfields have attracted all-comers, including their friend Wong Fu from Ballarat, who has sent a message for their help. To their surprise, Wong Fu reveals he is more than a mere fortune seeker - he is in fact a Cloud Leopard tong master and his daughter, Bao, has been kidnapped and taken to opium-ridden China. Kitty and Rian agree to retrieve the missing Bao, but as they sail closer to their quarry the stakes jump dramatically. And little do they know that the deadliest threat lies in their midst. The Cloud Leopard's Daughter takes us through dangerous and unpredictable shoals of love, lust, greed and opium, in search of not one, but two, fiery yet vulnerable women - puppets in other people's calculated games.

Sedmnáctiletá Tamara se rozhodne emigrovat na Nový Zéland. Zde se brzy provdá, ale z manžela se vyklube opilec a násilník. Nešťastná Tamara pozná mladého Maora. S ním stráví jedno jediné vášnivé odpoledne, to však pro ni má osudné následky. Když porodí dítě tmavé pleti, manžel ji v návalu zuřivosti málem zabije. Maorská služebná pomůže Tamaře i s nemluvnětem utéct. Po strastiplné cestě se dostanou do bezpečí. Jenže dítě - míšenec je mezi „bílými” společensky nepřijatelné, a tak maorská komunita rozhodne, že mu bude lépe mezi nimi. Jeho matka zde ovšem místo nemá...