Books like The Essie Summers Story by Essie Summers

Two generations of MacDonald and Campbell families clash when a young settler’s niece and a colonial officer intersect on a remote New Zealand sheep station.

A workplace romance in which secretary Sarah Macdonald confronts her mental block against her boss, Alastair Campbell, as their differing attitudes toward money and power clash.

An English governess arrives in New Zealand to work for a widowed uncle, only to be mistrusted as a gold digger by his earnest grandson.

Literary romance revolving around the bonds and tensions within a family of siblings as they navigate love, marriage, and family opposition.

Monique Balassa wrestles with family debts and a call to adventure when Aunt Amabel persuades her to travel. Her journey to Port Beauchamp to uncover a family secret is jolted by a daring encounter with a charming stranger.

A mountain‑climber and a sheep‑station owner in New Zealand’s Southern Alps fall for each other, but secrets from Juliana’s past threaten to undo their newfound love.

A New Zealand thriller writer travels to Britain, where an antiques shop’s display leads him into a complex romance with the artist’s granddaughter, challenging the lines between inspiration and intimacy.

When Thomasina wins a trip to New Zealand, she brings her young half‑brother and sister for a family holiday and a chance to meet her father’s friend, Uncle Eb.

Spring in September follows Susannah Carew as she returns to New Zealand, where tangled relationships with Morgan Blair and John test her loyalties.

Maria travels to New Zealand as a nursing companion, hoping to find her estranged father and build a new life, but love with Struan Mandeville at Heronshaw threatens to keep her from that goal.

Pursuing art and adventure across Europe, Katherine Mansfield lived and wrote with the Furies on her heels; but when she died aged only thirty-four she became one of the most influential writers of the twentieth century. Sexually ambiguous, craving love yet quarrelsome and capricious, she glittered in the brilliant circles of D.H. Lawrence and Virginia Woolf, her beauty and recklessness inspiring admiration, jealousy, rage and devotion. Claire Tomalin's biography brings us nearer than we have ever been to this courageous, greatly gifted, haunted and haunting writer.

Joanna’s New Zealand holiday turns into a snowy adventure when she ends up on Matthew Greenwood’s sheep station, Heronscrag, where love, hard work, and a ticking clock with a fiancée test her resolve.

The inheritance of the fruit farm in Central Otago meant a way out for Jeannie Fraser, an escape for her young brother and sister and herself from dependence on their mean and cruel stepfather. Now they were free! Or were they? Would their stepfather let the children go? Jeanie took no chances and virtually kidnapped them. Soon they were all happily settled at Strathlachan, and Jeannie even found her initial dislike for the manager, Fergus MacGregor, beginning to turn to the very opposite. But always there was the fear that their stepfather would track them down. Yet it was not their stepfather who found them, but the beautiful, unscrupulous Cecily Chalmers, who knew all about Jeannie’s past and was quite prepared to use it as a threat to win Fergus for herself ...

When MariIla St. John lightheartedly aired her views on marriage in a television interview, she had no idea what a commotion was going to ensue! However, things became so difficult that she decided to retreat to the country for a while until the fuss had died down. She got a temporary job looking after the nieces and nephew of Rufus Sinclair, concealing her real identity - which was just as well, for she soon discovered that Rufus had heard that Marilla St. John was a determined husband-hunter and he was equally determined not to be trapped! How could she convince him that he was wrong?

Reverend Dougal MacNab falls in love with Elspeth Cameron at first sight and pursues marriage, but she doubts she can be a suitable minister’s wife while a shadowed scandal of her past looms.

Nicola Trenton was thrilled when her distant cousin George Westerfield invited her out to New Zealand to share in the local Centennial celebrations, but not so thrilled when Forbes Westerfield indicated that he would rather she didn't come. But she went, nevertheless - and in exploring a long-ago romance, found her own happy ending.

Children's writer Brodie Nicol returns to her native New Zealand to visit her old friend Una Isbister. While driving out to Una's home Brodie finds herself in the middle of a snowstorm and seeks refuge at a nearby farmhouse - only to discover that the farm and its owner's children are being looked after by Guthrie Chisholm - her ex-fiance. Furthermore, Brodie discovers that she will not be able to leave immediately the snowstorm abates - because the farm is in quarantine. Clearly Una had known that Guthrie was staying nearby, and had planned a little matchmaking in inviting Brodie to stay. And it would appear that nature had helped her endeavours along immeasurably. But what Una doesn't know - and what no one except Brodie knows - is the true reason she had suddenly ended her engagement to Guthrie two years ago. In fact, even Guthrie does not know that two years ago, Brodie had overheard the conversation which took place in a pretty little English church, between himself and a woman called Anne.