"Sandwiches and Cuckoo Clocks"
Ross Richdale

Kosovar refugee Niana Bolsa is abandoned in the mountains by the Serbs to fend for herself. In freezing temperatures, the distraught woman staggers along an empty road through virgin snow. At the point of near collapse she comes across a tractor and trailer by the roadside with two terrified children hiding there. Their grandparents have been shot and their mother taken away. Determined to save the children, Niana takes them and heads for Albania. At the border she's shot and her unborn child is killed. With all records destroyed, nobody queries her right to the children and they emigrate to New Zealand.

Matt Coleman is attracted to the new tenant of his New Zealand shop, Niana Bolsa, when she opens a food bar adjacent to his antique and furniture factory. Niana is reluctant to commit herself beyond friendship and says little about her life. Eventually, friendship between Niana and Matt blossoms into an abiding and passionate love as they and Niana's foster children become a family.

But the terror so prevalent in Niana's past surfaces again--with a vengeance. Those thought dead make a return appearance, and the Serbs track Niana to her new home--brutally exterminating her friends along the way. This incredibly fast-moving story has action to thrill you as well as romantic appeal.

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About the Author:

After a career as a teacher and principal of mainly small rural schools, Ross Richdale writes both science fiction novels and contemporary novels. He lives in the small university city of Palmerston North in the North Island of New Zealand and is married with three children. His wife, Kay, still carries the burden of teaching children at a local primary (elementary) school.

After his wife and daughter go off to work every morning, Ross shares his living room with a black and white cat who demands to be fed at least six times a day and a goldfish called Survivor who managed to survive being dropped in a glass aquarium that was totally shattered. In this congenial atmosphere, he pounds away on an ancient Macintosh to form the characters and plots for his novels.

Ordinary people rather than the super rich, the super powerful or violent, are the main characters in his novels. He is also keenly interested in current events and uses international incidents as a backdrop for many of his novels.

When he is not writing, Ross enjoys drawing, usually on the computer. Other interests include wandering in the countryside and, in the summer, swimming in mountain streams or bounding through the rapids in a tractor tire inner tube. Many of his novels reflect his interest in the rural lifestyle as well as the cross section of personalities encountered during his years as a teacher.

Send Ross email:   Ross.Richdale@xtra.co.nz

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