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... moreHannah 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 It had an average rating of 4.3/5.0 from 52 reviews when unpublished at Amazon early in 2025. less
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