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Elsie King

A Suitable Bride

Miss Harriet Evans can shift cows, rotate crops and breed pigs. But has managing her brother’s estate scared off potential suitors? Harriet would love a family of her own but at twenty-four has she lost her chance of happiness?

Rather than be a dependent spinster Harriet wants her own farm but her family disagrees and she’s despatched to London to secure a suitable husband.

Captain Allister Clarens never wanted to be an Earl. Now he has an impressive title, massive debt, starving tenants, unpaid servants and a family to support. But he’s a soldier and knows his duty. He goes to London to find a suitable heiress.

Friendship blossoms and Harriet agrees to help Allister find a bride. Four exceedingly rich candidates are selected. Thwarted love, shamefully acquired fortunes and appalling relatives dash the aspirations of three of the candidates, but Lydia looks promising.

Love blooms, but will Allister’s sense of duty prevail and rob Harriet of her chance to be the most suitable bride of all?

A Suitable Heir

Secrets and lies can destroy a marriage.
Eleanor Finch loves to paint, and she loves babies. Her six siblings are all married with babies, lots of babies, and she is desperate to escape her lonely existence and have a family of her own.
Viscount Julian Heyer, a childless widower, is looking for a wife who can provide him with an heir. Rich, charming and an art lover, he finds Eleanor, with her large family and wide hips, a perfect candidate.
Love blossoms.
Five childless years later Eleanor is blamed and Julian becomes cruel in his disappointment. He needs an heir and refuses to accept he may be infertile.
Divorce looms.
Robert Heyer, Julian’s evil twin is dying and hell bent on wreaking Julian’s life before he goes. Robert sends Eleanor on a quest to expose the dark family history of infertility, infidelity, insanity, murder and suicide.
But will Robert’s dying words prompt Eleanor to do the unthinkable and find the courage to achieve her dreams?

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Lee-Anne Marie Kling

War Against Boris Series:

The Hitch-hiker

The Hitch-hiker, set in the Australian outback, is a character-driven Sci-Fi Horror journey, with some comedy and just enough of an evil alien cockroach Boris to make you love to hate him and still squirm. Eleven year old Holly from Switzerland yearned for adventure. While in Australia, she persuaded her cousin Minna to include her in a road trip to the Flinders Ranges. When Geoffrey Fox, the driver, became bored with the Kombi Van full of Germans (and one little Swiss girl), he picked up the Hitch-hiker, Boris…little realising the danger… The Hitch-hiker is a prequel to Lee-Anne Marie Kling’s novel, Mission Of the Unwilling featuring more unfortunate and embarrassing encounters with Boris.

Mission of the Unwilling

1986 and it was open season on 18-year-old Minna.
Strange men hit on her or tried to.
Her mum dictated where she could go and who she could see.
Her father made her drive a Mazda with a damaged rear—a police magnet.
And then, there was her classmate, Maggie; Minna’s nemesis, who made her high school years hell.
But with schooling coming to a close for Minna, all she wanted to do was leave the horrors of her youth, escape to Sellicks Beach for the ceremonial burning of high school study books…
And of course, meet up with the forbidden love of her life, Gunter.
Meanwhile, Boris, an evil alien, had other plans for Minna and her friends.
A story dealing with bullying and how a victim overcomes self-doubt to become a hero.

The Lost World of the Wends

Prussian War, 1848, a village of Wends left their home in Eastern Europe, for Australia. They never made it… Nobody missed them… Until now…

Diamonds in the Cave

How can a community of gentle folk, the Wends, turn into a blood-thirsty mob, hell-bent on hunting down and burning the innocent whom they’ve identified as “witches”?
And why did those who should know better, do nothing and allow this to happen?
This story explores how, on the Pilgrim Planet, evil can creep in and flourish while masquerading as “good”.

Minna and Gunter live the idyllic life as under-cover agents in the village of the Wends…Minna is building up a case against her enemies Maggie and Tails, and suspected of being Boris agents…
…But when the IGSF (Intergalactic Space Force) sends Gunter on a secret mission in the war against Boris, Minna alone and vulnerable encounters the son of Boris…
Their idyllic life unravels…as does the Wend community.
Incited by Tails and Maggie with fear and superstition, the Wends succumb to a full-scale witch hunt.
And Minna becomes their prime Target.

Travel Memoirs–The Intrepid T-Team

Trekking With the T-Team: Central Australian Safari 1981

Central Australia 1981 The Final Frontier Five guys, one girl–The T-Team. Boldly going where few people have gone before… Dad T, the Captain leads five youth on this safari. The T-Team are real; they are not perfect. A true-dinger family adventure as experienced by Lee-Anne Marie, that’s me, telling my story.

The T-Team With Mr. B: Central Australian Safari 1977

Dad’s friend Mr. Banks and his son, Matt (not their real names), joined Dad, my brother (Rick) and me on this journey of adventure. I guess Dad had some reservations how I as a young teenage girl would cope…
But it soon became clear that the question was, how would Mr. B who was used to a life of luxury cope?