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On Kapiti Coast: A Romantic Wartime Adventure From New Zealand

Dive into a fast-paced blend of mystery, history, romance, with a reporter wanting more excitement in her life and an undercover US Marine Major wth a mysterious past in 1943 wartime New Zealand!The US Marine Corps has landed in New Zealand and set up training camps throughout the North Island, and they’re not leaving until they’re ready to storm back into the Pacific. But something unusual is going on at one of the camps, and the press wants to find out what it is.Reporter Kate Hardyis sent to Camp Russell, the largest of the US Marine Corps camps, to see what’s going on.The Marines have been training for an invasion, with landing boats coming ashore in the dark through rough surf, men in heavy gear scrambling around the scrubby sandhills and up steep hillsides, and platoons making epic forced marches through the night. But suddenly, Camp Russell is under lockdown, workers are denied access, and local dairy farmers are forced to leave their warm milk at the gate. Kate's editor has asked her to find out what they’re trying to hide.When she runs into a US Marine Major in need of assistance, and he happens to be on his way to the camp in question, she’s suddenly embroiled in a series of dramatic and dangerous events. To make matters worse, members of her own community, who arrived in New Zealand in the 1870s to escape being inducted into the Prussian army, may be involved. They’re from Schleswig and consider themselves Danish, but locals think they’re German.A romantic thriller with a unique setting for people who love stories from World War II.Read more

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