The Bay Bookstore (Bay of Islands #4)

Hannah is an only child with a good job as a contract clerk at the Port Chalmers company, but at 46 her only relationship ended some years ago, and she has sworn off men.

Then the family lawyer tells her there is a branch of the family at the other end of New Zealand, in the Bay of Islands, and her half-uncle Monty Balfour has left her a bookstore in Kerikeri that has lain undisturbed for nearly thirty years.

She meets Barry, a possum trapper, and there is a spark between the big city girl and the wild forest man. Surely she couldn't leave a well-paid job, and travel the length of the country, to take on the uncertainty of owning a bookstore, could she?

This book was first published at Amazon (until their author support did crazy things once too often – and this comes from a maths teacher who is very IT literate). It had an average rating of 4.3/5.0 from 52 reviews when unpublished at Amazon early in 2025.