Tracey Alvarez - Break Your Heart: A Small Town Romance

Stewart Island Series

Book 1 In Too Deep (Piper & West) FREE

Book 2 Melting Into You (Kezia & Ben)

Book 3 Ready To Burn (Shaye & Del)

Book 4 Christmas With You (Carly & Kip)

Book 5 My Forever Valentine (Short Stories)

Book 6 Playing For Fun (Holly & Ford)

Book 7 Drawing Me In (Bree & Harley)

Book 7.5 Kissing The Bride (Shaye & Del Wedding Story)

Book 8 Saying I Do (MacKenna & Joe)

Book 9 Home For Christmas

Book 10 Bending The Rules (Tilly & Noah) Coming later in 2018

Bounty Bay Series

Book 1 Hide Your Heart (Lauren & Nate) FREE

Book 2 Know Your Heart (Savannah & Glen)

Book 3 Teach Your Heart (Gracie & Owen)

Book 4 Mend Your Heart (Natalie & Isaac)

Book 5 Break Your Heart (Vanessa & Sam)

Single Titles

Quake

Land of Lord of the Rings and the All Blacks rugby team, breathtaking landscapes, and laid-back friendly people who refer to ourselves as Kiwis. I hope youll enjoy your visit with me as we travel to the subtropical Far North of New Zealand. This area of the North Island is close to my heart, as is the Maori culture.

So, kia ora and happy reading!

These are simplified for the sake of brevity.

aroha love

hangi traditional New Zealand Mori method of cooking food using heated rocks buried in a pit oven

heihei chicken

heahea stupid, foolish

hongi to press noses in greeting

iwi extended kinship/tribe/group, a large group of people with common ancestry

kai food

ka pai good

kauri native tree

kia ora greeting

krero to talk, speak or address

kumara sweet potato

mana a person or place or objects prestige/charisma/authority/status ~ an important part of Mori culture.

manawa heart

matua father/uncle/parent, a respectful address

nono backside, bum

prangi crazy, insane.

tangi rites for the dead, funeral

tn koe thank you

t waha shut up

whine woman

whakairo Mori carving

whakam embarrassed/ashamed

whnau family

whare house/building

To hear the pronunciation of some of these words, check out this online Mori Dictionary!

http://maoridictionary.co.nz/

S am Ngata had ten days, seven hours, and twenty-two minutes to find himself a woman to settle down with.

He sat in his brothers office, staring morosely at the phone base, and tapped its handset against his forehead.

Thunk-thunk-thunk.

It didnt help erase the past five-minute conversation ping-ponging around in his brain. He swiveled on his chair to face the black leather couch where his older brother, Isaac, lay stretched out, hands linked behind his head.

So what did he say? Isaac asked as Sam dropped the handset back into its cradle.

Isaac had dragged Sam out of his workshop, and away from the slab of forty-five-thousand-year-old swamp kauri that hed been turning into a one-of-a-kind dining table, to his office where Sam was told to sit down, stop bitching, and say, Yes, sir, no sir, three bags full, sir, when the bigwig hotel mogul from Texas called.

Sam enjoyed his brother telling him what to do about the same amount he enjoyed having a splinter jammed under his thumbnail. But in this casethe case of sealing a potential multimillion-dollar deal for their business, Kauri WhareSam had sat down, ceased bitching, and accepted the phone when it was passed to him.

He folded his arms and sent Isaac the stink eye. Its more what you said to him, mate.

What did I say? Isaac crossed his ankles. Ive practically cotton-wool wrapped this whole deal with Gregory Wright from beginning to end.

You told him we were a close-knit family business.

We are, dipshit. The two of us, Uncle Manu, your guys out in the workshop. Isaac lifted his fist off his stomach and counted off his fingers until he ran out of them. The staff here in retaileveryone at Kauri Whare is related one way or another.

Thats not what he thought you meant by familynot after you mustve talked his ear off about you and Nat shacking up together.

The dopey-ass smile his brother got whenever his fiances name was mentioned spread across Isaacs face. Cant help it if Im eager to spend the rest of my life with the woman of my dreams.

Thats just puke-inducing, little Miss Sunshine. And certifiably insane. But thanks to you, Gregory leaped to the wild conclusion that Ive also got a significant other.

Isaacs forehead crumpled. What kind of significant other? A girlfriend?

Worse.

Isaac kicked his feet off the couch and sat bolt upright. Worse than a girlfriend? He couldnt mean

Isaac had been called onto the showroom floor while Sam had been talking to Gregory and missed the guts of their conversation.

He thought you had a serious girlfriend? Isaac asked.

Yeah. Sam blew out a sigh and swiveled back to the desk, dropping his head into his hands. Dipshit liar that I am, I let it ride. Then he started going on about the importance of family and how a married couple made a more stable foundation for investmentor some crap like that. My brain zoned out at that point until suddenly the old guys telling me I should put a ring on it

Whoa. Isaac jerked back. Was he serious?

Laughing, but pretty damn serious underneath. My tongue just fell out of my mouth and hit the floor, but the old guy mustve interpreted the sound as agreement.

A small lie of omission isnt the end of the world. Isaac stood and paced the length of his office, the ever-present hitch in his gait thanks to the near fatal accident hed survived fraying Sams nerves even more. His brothers injuries were a great reminder that small lies could be the end of your world if loving someone made you vulnerable.

Isaac stopped behind the chair and flicked Sams earthe big brother equivalent of a sympathetic back pat. Hell have forgotten this serious girlfriend shit by the time the two of us convince him to sign the contract.

A contract for Kauri Whare to supply unique handcrafted wooden sculptures and furniture to Wrights chain of boutique hotels throughout Texas and the Midwest.