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Nicola Claire is the Wandering Writer... Inspired by her own backyard, this collection of personal photos and four short stories showcases the wonder that surrounds her in Taupo, North Island, New Zealand. This is Nicola's home, her playground, the source she draws on for inspiration when writing. Pure NZ: Taupo contains more than 60 photos taken by Nicola over the past four years, collated just for this edition of Pure NZ, accompanied by four fantasy short stories inspired by those images. The short stories include the following: THE LAKE, THE RIVERS, THE MOUNTAINS & THE BAYS. Enjoy a ...

"Oh, this was sweet torture. To be this close to nirvana and walk away because I am coy. I closed my eyes tightly and swallowed down my fears. Theo wanted me. Like this. He craved me, in any way he could get me. Even if I wasn’t his, even if this all was torn asunder tomorrow, how could I not take the chance to feel this, to share this, with him? Even if just for a moment." For the past year Casey Eden has nurtured a crush on handsome, confident and slightly arrogant Theo Peters. For the first time in her life she's actually been able to flirt with a man. She even believed he was about to...

"Birdsong was the first thing I registered. The sharp caw of a parrot, but there was more than one. And somehow they overlapped to make a beautiful symphony out of what should have been an unmusical sound. I grinned; the feeling of my lips tipping up was foreign. How long had it been since I last smiled?" Casey Eden has had her life turned upside down and inside out, just when she thought it was going somewhere. Thrust into a new and dangerous world, and not knowing who to trust, Casey has to push herself to be stronger, harder, and better than she has ever been before. To top things off, ...

"This couldn't be happening. This was a trick. A cruel ploy to finally break me. They knew I'd weakened. Today the first day I'd let the tears fall and screamed my frustration and despair. They knew they almost had me, so they were pushing the knife in further and twisting the blade. Just to be sure." Casey Eden knew her life had changed beyond recognition when she woke up one morning covered in dirt. Since then she's crawled her way through treacherous environments, been pitted against dangerous predatory beings, and survived formidable destructive forces. Only to find herself in the one ...

“I would die for you Lucinda, I would cast away everything I possess to be near you, I would take anything you willingly give and no more, this is what you mean to me." Lucinda's relationship with the Master of the City is progressing at an alarming rate, but she is unsure if what she feels is the truth. Or just a by-product of the joining and Bond. Can she even trust her own feelings? To top that off, the vampire governing body has taken an interest in Lucinda and Michel's joining. The Iunctio's attention has now swung towards Lucinda and her kindred. Can they prove themselves to...

"What was wrong with me to antagonise a vampire of his standing to such a degree? I knew I had become too rebellious, too sure of my own place in this world. I was aware that Dark had been encroaching, that I played so often in its shadow I was losing sight of the sun, of my Light. There were times when I truly felt consumed in anger, for all that had happened, for all that I had suffered and lost." Leaving Auckland and moving to London, Lucinda has to learn new rules and assimilate into a new life she has no love for. Rebelling against everything that just doesn't seem fair, Lucinda upsets...

"Time works within a precise set of rules. There are consequences to every single thing we do when surfing its waves. So, in order to protect Time, we must operate within those rules. And one of Time's rules is that people should not be allowed to live out of their own time. Ever." Out of time Novitiate at the Royal Academy of Time Surgeons, Mimi Wylde has just one thing on her mind. To save her family from the machinations of Sergei Ivanov. But Time is never that linear. Her family is not really her family. And the Russian is not all that threatens RATS. Parliament is meddling in the ...

"You do realise," he whispered, his hand reaching up to brush my hair from my face. He began twining a strand around one of his fingers. "That you are my most magnificent obsession." Magnificent obsession. I think I liked that. I certainly understood it. He was mine too. Confronted with yet another curve ball, Lucinda finds herself in Álfheimr at the mercy of the Dökkálfa. And the Fey have unusual rules, rules which even the Dark Fairies like to stretch. Throwing herself into the political machinations of her hosts, Lucinda must negotiate her release. But what could the ...

“His lips met mine again, this time in a slow, soft caress, conveying everything he had just said in those beautiful words that had reached my very soul. I could have drowned in that kiss. I could have lived there for eternity. It filled me up with everything I needed to survive. He gave me life through his lips and I treasured it." Recovering from recent losses, Lucinda finds herself in a Dark place. She starts to doubt who she has become. She seeks reassurance that despite the Prophecy and what that has meant for her life, she is still remaining true to herself. The American ...

"I felt hot tears streaming down my cheeks at his words. Spoken so carelessly, but with such shameless intent. He knew how I felt. How I had been feeling. How lost and alone and full of grief my days had been. Avery was not a friend. Not even a trusted acquaintance. But he understood what I was going through. Even if he didn't have a compassionate bone in his entire buffed body, he knew what I had suffered. I didn't have to justify my behaviour to him." Walking out on her life and hiding in the only place she can think of that the Iunctio - the vampire governing body - and in particular,...

You wanted more? Well, here it is! A Christmas Special Novella (just over 16,000 words) from Michel's point of view, set after the end of book eight in the Kindred Series: Kiss Of The Dragon. A sweet surprise full of a few Kindred secrets, wrapped up in a Michel package, just in time for Christmas. "When I look at her, I see the strong, independent, courageous woman I have always seen. The sexy, confident, alluring hunter she was the first day I watched her handle a stake. The love of my life. The very air I breathe. The very blood that fuels my veins. She is everything to me. And not once ...

“I'm supposed to be the one that calls him back toward the Light. ' I am the Light to your Dark. You call to me as I call to you. I will always hold you dear.' But it was getting harder. I loved him and it's not as if I never knew it would be difficult loving a vampire. I just never knew the degree of difficulty it would entail." Michel battles his rising Dark, all but losing his Light within. His line falters, his life is in turmoil and Lucinda is ultimately shut out. Without his kindred to draw him back to the Light, just how Dark will Michel become? And can Lucinda survive ...

From Amazon Romantic Suspense, Mystery Romance and Fantasy Bestselling Author Nicola Claire comes a seductive and fast paced world of beautiful relationships, explosive environments, and a group of friends who look out for each other. "I'm going to give you memories to last a lifetime, Genevieve Cain. I promise you that." With a loser ex-boyfriend threatening her dream business, Sweet Seduction, Genevieve Cain is forced to go to a lawyer to finalise things once and for all. Gen knows she's only good for one dream in her lifetime, so when she meets senior partner, Dominic Anscombe, in the ...

Nicola Claire's captivating new time travel romance series introduces an exciting and adventurous world, set in multiple times and multiple places, packed full of sizzling action and heart-racing escapades, where time once lost can never be found again. “Time is fluid. It is malleable. That is why we can mend it. But if we’re not careful, we can also influence it. If we’re in the incorrect location and time, stepping out of this Orion module could have drastic consequences on Time itself. We don’t break Time, Miss Wylde; we fix it.” Recovering from shocking revelations regarding ...

“Please do not be alarmed. This is for your own protection.” Working as the Chief Engineer onboard the ESAS Chariot out of Europe, Commander Camille Rey expected her position to be somewhat challenging on occasion. She did not expect to be fighting for her and her fellow crewmen’s lives immediately after take-off. Teaming up with the very proper, and very English Captain Noah Vaughan to combat a desperate saboteur onboard their vessel, Camille discovers that not all the malfunctions the Chariot is experiencing are human-related. Secrets and desires are exposed amongst the stars and ...

Nicola Claire's captivating new time travel romance series introduces an exciting and adventurous world, set in multiple times and multiple places, packed full of sizzling action and heart-racing escapades, where time once lost can never be found again. “That is what we do, Miss Wylde. We mend Time. Catch it. Stitch it. Make it. We’re Surgeons of Time. And you’re about to go where no layperson has ever gone before. So trust me, when I say I am responsible for you. And believe me, when I say your presence alone could fracture or restore Time.” Mourning the loss of her parents, Mimi ...

It’s the last hoorah for the Harpy, but things are looking pretty grim. With near to a thousand sleek-looking alien battleships massing beyond the Belt, Kael and the crew have a fight on their hands. But when an opportunity presents itself for an infiltration of the alien space station producing the drones bombing Zenthian planets, Kael dons his Deep Space Operative hat again and does what he does best. Blowing things up with a little help from his friends. Outgunned and outnumbered, facing two wars on two different fronts, and a courting process that includes a fight to the death; ...

“This is Captain Anderson. Brace. Brace. Brace." Sophia Anderson has a heritage she should be proud of, but to those onboard the AUS Corvus, she’s not earned her position like the rest of them. Every day she has to prove herself to the Anderson Universal crew onboard her ship. And then the worst thing happens. The captain is killed in battle and Sophia, as First Officer, must take his place. Teaming up with the unflappable Lieutenant Commander Leo Saitō, Sophia finds her footing onboard the beleaguered vessel as well as something much more precious. Intimacy and destiny align amongst ...

"You can be scared of something, even terrified, and still have the courage to do what’s required. I would not let my fear rule me. I would do what I had to do to put this right." As the leaseholder’s daughter, Adriana Price holds a position of importance onboard the AUS Aquila. But not everything is as it seems. Death and danger have followed her from Old Earth, and Adi soon finds herself facing threats from every which way onboard the spaceship. Teaming up with the dashing and heroic Captain Hugo Tremblay, Adi finds a strength inside that defies the devastation and horror closing in ...

"This is how we’d traverse the stars; limping and crippled, the last survivors of a dying solar system." Fleeing from a past that almost killed her and a present that promises she’ll only burn, pay-for-passage passenger Ana Kereama boards the Sector Two lead vessel Pavo with only survival in mind. What she finds is a reason to live, and it has nothing to do with New Earth. Teaming up with the sexy and commanding Captain John Jameson to protect those on board their ship, Ana fights not only for her vessel’s survival but the intelligent being emerging within its gel coated walls. Love ...