Vanessa Denton gave her life for Gaia and Mathews Bush despite a solemn promise from Mike Simmiss, President of the Save Our Forests Association (SOFA). The tragedy drives Mike to revive a flagging campaign against logging the forest. Time is running out, and the chance of success seems against the odds but, not compromising, Mike grasps every last opportunity. Will it be enough? SOFA goes up against big business, the new owner of the forest, Jackson-Halberd (NZ) Ltd, contending with the company's successful Managing Director, John Baron, and its unscrupulous board member and stroke survivor, Ed Somerville.

Peter Nugent, manager of a theatre company in Wellington and former actor, has just been diagnosed with cancer when he receives devastating news that his beloved 17 year-old granddaughter, Melanie, has committed suicide. The tragedy saps his will to go on living. He learns from Robin Blackwell, hospital employee and pro-lifer, that Melanie had an abortion just before she died. Blackwell incites Peter to action against his granddaughter's boyfriend then against the doctor Blackwell identifies as the abortionist. But not everything is as it seems. Peter struggles first with his conscience then with his heart. "A powerful book" - Andrew Killick.

A New Zealand-born neophyte artist, James Vallence, rents an old villa on the French Riviera not knowing that his life will drastically change when Kimberley Spenser, a beautiful young American, shows up at his door. Masked intruders break into the villa, James is shot and wounded and Kim is abducted. Mystery surrounds her disappearance and, with few leads, James desperately searches for her. Unsuccessful in finding Kim's whereabouts, though not losing all hope, James tries to rebuild his life in Paris. He cannot, however, escape a vendetta begun by her kidnappers . Others become embroiled and he has to fight for his life.

Seven Caribbean tourists become pawns in the struggle for ideolgical and political control of Tortolona when a Cuban-trained army officer, Captain Martin Levera, seeks to overthrow the dictatorship of Mathew Duppie.

In the presidential campaign of 1948, Henry Wallace set out to challenge the conventional wisdom of his time, blaming the United States, instead of the Soviet Union, for the Cold War, denouncing the popular Marshall Plan, and calling for an end to segregation. In addition, he argued that domestic fascism--rather than international communism--posed the primary threat to the nation. He even welcomed Communists into his campaign, admiring their commitment to peace. Focusing on what Wallace himself later considered his campaign's most important aspect, the troubled relationship between non-Communist progressives like himself and members of the American Communist Party, Thomas W. Devine demonstrates that such an alliance was not only untenable but, from the perspective of the American Communists, undesirable. Rather than romanticizing the political culture of the Popular Front, Devine provides a detailed account of the Communists' self-destructive behavior throughout the campaign and chronicles the frustrating challenges that non-Communist progressives faced in trying to sustain a movement that critiqued American Cold War policies and championed civil rights for African Americans without becoming a sounding board for pro-Soviet propaganda.