Book One
Book 1
By: Casey Swan

A Healing of the Heart

Casey Swan
 BAY OF ISLANDS   Book One

PLEASE NOTE – A Healing of the Heart was number seven in the Kauri Bay series until October 2022, and is now the first book in the Bay of Islands series. Apologies for any confusion.

Samuel seemed to understand when Michelle could only have one child, but nineteen years later he leaves her for a younger woman with three children under five. Devastated, she remembers Christmas holidays with her grandparents in the far north of New Zealand, and buys an old trading post in the Bay of Islands.

Her sister, fresh from her own tragedy in Italy, soon joins her, but at first the mammoth task of renovating the elderly building seems impossible. Then her farming neighbours recommend Hamish, the sheep ferry man and sometimes renovator.

Can modern materials be made to fit 1882 measurements? Will her growing feelings for Hamish be reciprocated? Can she help the talented artist in the next bay who is recovering from a mental breakdown? Will she be able to make a new life for herself in the Bay of Islands?

A detailed and realistic story in the clean and wholesome genre. This book is a great contemporary read about new beginnings.

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Hello, wherever you are in the world.

I live in an area of New Zealand called Taranaki, which is built around a huge mountain rising from the middle of a flat plain. Mount Taranaki (2518m) looks a lot like Mount Fuji, and is another almost perfect volcanic cone. I climbed it first when I was thirteen, and I've spent a lot of time on it ever since. We say we live 'under the mountain' if we live in Taranaki.

I had some trouble finding a new pen name for the Kauri Bay romance series. I had already used Eric Thorpe for my popular military thrillers, and another name for my recent science-fiction trilogy, so what to do next? In the end I took the first name from one grandfather and the last name from the other, and tweaked two letters to make the name flow. That's how the name Casey Swan was born. I’m aiming at six books in the Kauri Bay series, and we'll see what happens after that.

As I mentioned in the Author's Note to the first Kauri Bay book (A Bridge Between Hearts), physio yoga over fifty does exist, and I teach it. I have essentially invented this branch of yoga myself, with a lot of help from other yoga teachers, a physio friend and now a chiropractor friend. I did once try to put a few hour-long classes up at YouTube so everyone could benefit, but the cost was too high and there was a large digital hurdle to overcome. I understand something like this is underway in Europe, which is good to hear.

May the books you read inspire your life!

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