Bøger udgivet af Ross Richdale

Coffee & Chat is a contemporary novel that follows the life of Nicole Turner after she resigns from her Associate Principal position at Conway Intermediate School in Auckland, New Zealand. In her opinion the school is heading in a downwards spiral after a new politically correct principal, Danielle Plier, attempts to replace the technology section, part of Nicole's responsibility, with ethical and climate change studies. Dustin Harris, the chairperson of the school's Board of Trustees can't dissuade Nicole from leaving but instead her asks her to take a year's leave of absence. She agrees but this decision affects her later in the year. Nicole loves the early morning baking at Coffee & Chat, her coffee shop where her new life is in complete contrast to the stress of the position she left. One stormy winter morning she meets Rhett Fleming, a local lawyer who drops in for a coffee. Friendship soon grows into romance when they find they have much in common.Shelby Fleming, Rhett's wife who he recently divorced has had affairs since their separation but is jealous of Nicole and becomes a problem. She has turned to drinking and finally goes to Alcoholics Anonymous where she meets Floyd Willis, a quiet guy there. They begin an affair before the horrible truth about what he is really like is exposed. The Coffee & Chat shops are expanded when Rhett suggests licensing their trademark, which is an easier method than offering franchises. Soon, their shops appear in the supermarkets and malls around the city. Conditions are agreed to by the licensee and a percentage of the firm's profit pay for the naming rights. Nicole enjoys her expanded business and the opportunities involved.Unexpectedly in November, Dustin Harris calls in and tells Nicole that Danielle Plier has resigned and she is invited to become acting principal until the end of the year. She reluctantly accepts and replaces 'politically-correct' changes with the traditional ones. These include allowing Christmas to be celebrated and the annual end of year dance is reinstated. Her reputation is popular and falling numbers of new entrants enrolling for the next year are halted. She does, however resist applying for the permanent principal's position but does help find a suitable principal. Danielle Plier hears about the changes, blames Nicole for her own downfall and vows revenge. But what can she do? She seizes an opportunity but later regrets her actions. Floyd, a womaniser and fraudster meets his match when he answers the door and is shot by a woman who blasts him with a shotgun. The police need to find if this assassin is Shelby or somebody else. Though Sergeant Mike Pinfold is convinced the murderer is Shelby, his superior Detective Inspector Gail McBride orders a wider investigation after a worker cutting grass in a ravine near the city discovers a shotgun. Shelby contacts Rhett and asks for his help as a lawyer after she is interviewed over the murder. She insists she never killed Floyd even though she found out he was also having an affair with another woman from Alcoholics Anonymous and he has impregnated them both. Also he lied about who he really was and even his name and occupation is faked. But is Shelby responsible? And what does Danielle Plier do to revenge Nicole? Also, how does Nicole's Coffee & Chat business continue to grow?All will be revealed in this exciting romantic thriller.*

In Infinity Drive Missions, all our old friends are back including Brittany, Zane and the little silf Pepper, as well as their galaxy cruiser Strabo. They continue their adventures in our distant future. Brittany and her companions find themselves stranded on Fortitude, a spaceship orbiting their planet. After a mysterious start, they discover that the computer voices coming from the onboard computers are live beings. Yuri is a human trying to rescue his partner Darial from a closed planet. She is a pilot officer on a shuttlecraft that crash-lands on the planet and cannot leave. Nulkor is a nilakorpo, a creature who can take any living creature's form, who comes from their future. After using Fortitude to rescue Darial, infinity drive is lost so they cannot travel at post light speed. Only by using a quantum replication of Brittany to contact Alessandra to bring Strabo to rescue them. But how can Brittany be two places in the universe at the same time? Elandra lives on Mars that humans have colonized after the dying Earth is evacuated. She is kidnapped when a terrorist group called SOFT wants to create a new world of humans where males again dominate society. How do Brittany and those aboard Strabo save Elandra and a thousand other women as well as two hundred men from the terrorists? When heading home, Strabo is caught in a violent interstellar magnetic storm. This storm, has been artificially created by Nulkor's species who are trying to create new worlds by using matter/antimatter to seed a void between universes. Adele a sub-officer aboard Intervoid Darkstar is using a wormhole to send the storm through to a void. However, Darkstar is also sucked into this wormhole and destroyed. Adele is the only survivor. How do Brittany and her crew find Adele in the storm's eye and bring Strabo home again?