I hope 2026 has started beautifully for you and brings everything you wish for, plus a little more.
My own year kicked off in with the release of my very first German translation. I’m incredibly excited… and if I’m being honest, a little terrified too. After more than fifteen years of writing stories, some of my family and friends will now discover exactly what kind of stories I’ve been creating all this time. It feels equal parts thrilling and nerve-wracking.
After a short creative break, I’m back at my desk and deep into another New Zealand story. This one is set on the North Island, mainly around the East Cape. It’s been such a joy returning—on the page—to places we visited last September, and letting the landscape work its quiet magic on the story.
Thank you, as always, for being here, for reading, and for supporting my journey. I can’t wait to share more with you soon.
Much love to all of you and please stay safe, look after yourself ♥♥♥
Some inherit money. Mallory inherited secrets… Mallory O’Neill swaps the buzz of Melbourne for the quiet shores of Anahera Bay, New Zealand, hoping for a fresh start… not secrets and surprises. But the crumbling seaside cottage left to her by Sofia—the grandmother she never knew—holds more than just dust and disrepair. It holds the key to a family history her late mother never spoke of. As Mallory pieces together Sofia’s past, she faces the doubts of old friends and the arrival of an unexpected stranger. Along the way, she finds friendships among the locals, but she also meets resistance from the brooding handyman, Cameron Quinn, a man haunted by his own past. When faded letters, old photographs, and buried truths come to light, Mallory and Cameron find themselves drawn together by grief, memory, and a spark neither of them expected.
