Three Novellas: Carmen's Roses, Blue Moon for Bombers, The Windflower Vibration

Three novellas. Two countries. One web of secrets that only reveals itself at the end.

In Carmen's Roses, Iris travels from England to Auckland carrying a guilty secret, and arrives to find that the woman she came to make peace with is dead. As she recovers her health in a rose-filled villa in Devonport, she is drawn into a quiet mystery involving a charming but dangerous local doctor, a broken ceramic jar, and a woman who may not have died by accident.

In Blue Moon for Bombers, Phyllida hosts a weekend retreat at her crumbling English country home while her elderly father lies dying in hospital, haunted by wartime memories he has never spoken aloud. As her eccentric guests stir up unexpected emotions, the old man's deathbed confession begins to unravel a truth that has shaped three generations.

In The Windflower Vibration, elderly Georgina watches a body pulled from an Auckland beach, and finds herself quietly, methodically uncovering the threads that connect all three stories: two hemispheres, two centuries, and a cast of characters whose lives have been crossing without their knowledge.

Warm, witty, and quietly unsettling, these three novellas draw on the author's experience as both orthodox doctor and alternative healer, and her life divided between England and New Zealand. They reward the patient reader with a final revelation that reframes everything that came before.