Kirjahaku

One man's voyage of self-discovery after losing his wife ends with new romance and hope, proving that it's better to move on than to give up, and that old dogs can ... It's 1979, and two years after Sir Charles Prendergast loses his wife, Dorothy, he finds himself lost, hopeless, and facing the fear of dying alone. At the age of 70, should he just live out his years as best he can, or should he confront his fears and find a way to live again? Charles decides to return to India, where he grew up and where, as a young soldier, he met and fell in love with Dorothy. So begins his journey of recovery and self-discovery. After getting over his depression, he is ready to confront his future and find a companion. His search is fraught with challenges. Charles is soon bewildered, disheartened, and ready to quit. But two days before his flight home, he meets Miriam, a 35-year-old Hindu woman who teaches at a school in Assam, and the sky falls in on him. Then his problems begin ... Dance on the Terrace is an uplifting historical romance novel sure to delight readers with its old-world charm and moving storyline.

Two students meet briefly on a Cornwall beach where an unknown seaweed has taken root in a cliffside cleft. She has a terrifying phobia. He is a depressive with a fixation. On different continents, both remember their meeting, but their paths refuse to cross again until chance brings them together three years later in a research effort to uncover the origins of the plant they first saw on the beach. While she tries to keep him from spiralling into depression, can he help her overcome the phobia that keeps her from marriage? Will success in their research be enough? It seems not ...

Divorcee and former lawyer Marijke Coetzee contemplates falling to her death off Cape Town's Table Mountain. But Ken, a mysterious stranger, intervenes just in time. He whisks Marijke off to live a primitive life in an East African game reserve where danger lurks at every turn.Marijke finds new purpose as a traditional healer. While gathering faithful friends among animals and people, she and Ken grow closer. But she makes some powerful enemies too.Soon, she faces new danger: how can she continue as a traditional healer without government approval? And then the poachers come.Will Marijke and Ken outwit the forces rallying against them? Will Marijke finally be able to accept Ken's proposal?This suspenseful, deeply human story of a budding romance pitted against the odds, set against a glorious African background, will keep you enthralled to the last page.

When a neurodivergent young woman freezes in a trance in an airport terminal, and Dexter Rawlins, a soon-to-be-retired airline chief pilot, sees her motionless figure as a potential terrorist, why didn't he call security?Jenifer Boscawen talks to ghosts and wanders the metaverse, talking to her long-dead father. She once played computer games and now, for her use only, builds aircraft simulators in a barn behind her house. He flies internationally and lives in hotels worldwide except when he can retreat to his farmhouse beside Dartmoor, where he spends hours on Dartmoor talking to the ponies.Morwen, Dexter's childhood girlfriend, also talks to ponies and says, 'When two Fey people meet, there's either an explosion or a blending.'They must find out between aircraft engine failures, crashes, and investigations, which take them to Madagascar, Mauritius, the USA, Dartmoor, and somewhere called the metaverse. - What is their future?

A thousand years into the future: Humanity, having overpopulated and depleted five planets, seeks a new home. Five hundred light-years across the cosmos, Tarik beckons.Soon, the first generation of Tarik-born humans reaches maturity: a new breed of colonists ready to explore the planet's rich and diverse life.When nature-loving Timothy embarks on a trip to secure his future as an aspiring biologist, he meets cabin attendant Jessica, a beautiful young woman yet to find her place in the world.Then comes a terrifying crash. As sole survivors stranded in the middle of a primaeval forest, they must work together to make it back to Timothy's home.Their journey brings them closer and teaches them more about Tarik and its wild and intelligent life than any textbook could. Soon, they learn to communicate telepathically with the planet's intelligent beings.But just as they begin to feel at one with Tarik and its lifeforms, the threat of humanity resurfaces when they encounter criminal colonists determined to slaughter the intelligent creatures for profit and start an interspecies war in the process.Can they save Tarik and its inhabitants from the worst of humankind? And in doing so, will they finally forge a new purpose and path for themselves and our kind? Only Tarik knows.

Leo and Lisa meet accidentally. Hardly unusual, except that it happens beside a tomb in a pirates' cemetery in Madagascar - he is naked, and she behaves unconventionally. A month later, they reluctantly separate after promising to uncover the story of PegLeg Jon, the tomb's resident. She studies and trains to become a doctor and a hospital manager; he becomes a mathematician and financial analyst. As the years pass and they develop, instead of growing apart, unusual events bring them violently together. Each influences the other until they remember their promise and cooperate to unravel the threads in PegLeg's history. Years after their first meeting, only two unrelated items remain a mystery: a lost chest with unknown contents north of the equator and, far to the south, a religious statue lost in the seventeenth century. Will Leo and Lisa find them? And what happens if they do? Only PegLeg Jon knows ...