Hi Welcome to Ross Richdale's world. Ross has written thirty novels in both contemporary and science fiction genre.
So whether you like real life stories like Claire or science fiction such as Into the Wormhole there is something here for you. Ross also designs his own covers.
Thank you for visiting us.
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Print: $9.99 Download: $5.00 The Mud Mafia are three ordinary teenagers; Kelsie, Laura and Jason who have two extraordinary adventures.
Abduction in the Pines
Kelsie, Laura and Jason are on a bike ride through a pine forest when a sudden summer storm arrives. A man arrives in a SUV and says he was sent by Laura’s mother to pick them up. Everything goes horribly wrong when they are abducted and held for ransom by environmental terrorists. They are flown to an offshore island in an ancient flying boat. There, a hermit Glenn lives with his dog, Blackie. Is his curiosity about the flying boat of any help?
White Water Overhead
In this second story Kelsie, Laura and Jason visit Glenn on his island the following holidays. He shows them an old submarine base on the island in a huge ocean cave. However, it has been recently used. While they are exploring the base a submarine arrives and the trio, together with Blackie are caught and forced onto it. Their capture is seen by Glenn but he is powerless to stop it.
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Print: $10.38 Starship Human Dawn is evacuating the last residents from a dying Earth in search of a new world. 5000 humans are in suspended animation while the vessel travels at post-light speed under control of computers. Commander Sophie Copland wakes up in deep space because of an emergency stop.
A human, Kyla who is escaping from aliens has caused this. After no senior officers are found to be alive, two other crewmembers, Penny and Jack are awoken. They find the starship is occupied by of human terrorists who have killed the senior officers and are torturing two aliens, Daz and Foxin. They rescue the pair and before the Human Dawn is destroyed they escape in the Dawn Rescue 'lifeboat'.
However, the computers have the ability to mutate into advanced forms! Are they really the new life species that supersede the 'inferior' humans and aliens?
Only Sophie and her four friends can keep life from becoming extinct in a hostile cosmos.
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Print: $10.80 At three in the morning, Kim Biermann is called to Grandpa Ivan's deathbed. He tells her about his life in New Zealand since his arrival as a German pilot who flies in from a German raider in the last days of World War Two. He tells of mysterious containers being unloaded in a sound in Fiordland before his ship was sunk. His secrets, though, are not completely revealed and could be in his floatplane somewhere in the Tararua Ranges, north of Wellington or even buried in back in Fiordland.
Even after sixty-four years, danger still lurks for Kim as terrorists are also interested in finding Ivan's secrets and will stop at nothing to obtain them.
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Print: $11.99 Download: $2.50 Transmigration: (of the soul) pass into a different body- Concise Oxford Dictionary.
Four humans find themselves in a small village of Betaham without knowledge of where they come from or who they are. It is a pleasant little town but disturbing memories of a brutal war and a different life flash spasmodically into their minds.
Their dreams seem so real but are quite unrelated to their present lives ... that is until they meet a strange farmer and a violent sandstorm arrives at Betaham. They find the farmer isn't even human. Furthermore, they may not even be human themselves.
A bombed out city is on the other side of the hills and can be reached though a railway tunnel. The trouble is that the city was destroyed a millennium before and is an archaelogical site visited by the farmer's race who arrived from another planet.
Only then do the four learn the truth about themselves...
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Print: $12.47 ISBN 0-9582702-8-7
Behind the Fire is an exciting romantic adventure set in the exotic outback of New South Wales, Australia.
Teenagers Abbey and Cooper are in their final year at High school, both have problems they are trying to escape from, and run away together.
Faced with bushfire, criminals on the run, and possible murder charges, will they even survive?
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Print: $13.97 On Earth in our present time, Lara is involved in a serious road accident that leaves her as a quadriplegic. She is helped by going through a portal to Havenseed where technology not even discovered on Earth, is used to restore her to a normal healthy life.
But does it?
Unknown to herself and her family, her new body includes genetically enhanced genes with side effects, both positive and negative, that affect her family and herself, both now and in the future.
Travel with Lara and her family through space-time as they find the consequences of her time genes may allow carnivore plants and reptilian species destroy humanity throughout the known worlds of the 24th century.
Only Aari's unborn child, Ralina can help but this is also difficult for she cannot exist in the same world as both an adult and a baby. This conflict of space-time will mean she will never have existed.
As well, her help is illegal and she is brought to trial to answer for crimes against society.
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Print: $13.97 When Rhett intercepts a stranger, Shelley in his holiday home it becomes apparent that she is not just an intruder caught in the act of illegally trespassing.
Rhett and Shelley travel through a space-time portal where they are met by Dee, their twelve-year old daughter that they never knew existed. Dee is desperate for her brother, Corwin to be rescued. He has been caught in a trap set by the girifa, the reptilian equivalent of humanity. In this world, humans are the aliens.
As they continue their journey they befriend fellow travellers, who help them in a seemingly haphazard quest. However, their lives appear to have been predetermined with a destiny that will affect not only present day Earth but also the future.
Rhett and Shelley learn that the enemy are not the girifa but humans living a parallel world from their ancestors' time.
Journey through the time portal where time, space and parallel worlds intertwine with an ultimate disaster that only Rhett and Shelley can halt.
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ArmletArmlet (book)
Print: $14.47 The armlet Kolina Lagerfelt is given by her dying grandmother is more than a piece of jewellery. It has been handed down through the family for countess generations.
Kolina places the armlet on and is connected to Eboff, a voice in her mind. Eboff is an advanced computer with news that she is the descendant of a starship crew that crashed on the planet a millennium before. Only when other ancestors of this crew are found that technology far superior to that now known on the planet can be accessed to save the world from nuclear annihilation.
But is it too late? Their world is at war and the nuclear holocaust has already begun.
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Print: $13.97 Anu is possibly the last Blue, an advanced humanoid race. She must be protected so the genes of her species are passed onto future generations. An environment is made for Anu and the humans with her. It is a hallucinatory world but it works well.
This is until a car accident causes Talbot to discover that his real existence is an empty, township. His sports car is just an old vehicle and his apartment is as old and tatty as the clothes he wears. Also the friends and acquaintances he interacts with don't exist. Anu is the only other real person in the town. He convinces her that the world they live in is false and they remove implants from their necks that create the hallucinations.
But where does the fresh food, electricity and fuel for Talbot's car come from?
After days of searching they find Erin, a human girl who is living alone. In her hallucinatory state, Erin doesn't even know she is heavily pregnant
But where is the man who impregnated her?
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Print: $14.47 On the planet of Delpe, eighty light years from Earth, 1300 human settlers, descended from a stranded starship crew, have been at war with the crucnon, the native intelligent species of insect creatures, for seven generations.
When a flying female named Jaddig Qarte crashes in human territory she is befriended by human, Holly Jurjevics, Generation 7 Leader. Holly finds the clicker a compassionate creature with high moral values, not the ruthless killer expected.
Later, it is discovered that Jaddig is genetically related to Holly but how can this be so? And why has this information been suppressed by earlier human generations?
Who are the crucks, a new species who attack both the human settlement and the Crucnons? How will the humans survive? Will the long lost Earth bases and shuttle craft, their one hope of leaving the planet be found?
And what of Jaddig and the thousands of her hybrid species? Where do they belong?
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Print: $14.47 When Talya is sucked into a wormhole she arrives in a new world where humans are primitive villagers pursued by hexalimbs, six limbed creatures, for food. Along with Gavin, also stranded from Earth, she helps the local humans. They rescue and befriend Kysum, a tailed humanoid who can metamorphose into other beings, from a hexalimb spaceship.
In an ongoing fight against the aliens they search for a way home. In doing so, they transverse time-space and change the course of history in this far off universe.
But who is really in control? Will it be possible to ever reach home?
But does Earth even exist?
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Print: $13.00 With red hair and a tall body, Brittany Forbes doesn't know:-
She is human and not a freak of nature-
The ruling humanz who run the land with an iron fist are really dwarfs.
She carries a hidden transmitting device.
This device has been passed through twenty generations of humans.
Two men, human Zane Bidwell and the ruthless Colonel Slovinof both know of this transmitter and it is a race to get to her.
The third species in her city the fuzzballs, spherical creatures the size of an orange who have the power of flight, are helping Zane.
That Galactic Cruiser Strabo has been orbiting above for five hundred years.
That the captain of this ship, Alessandra McLean has left a hologram to contact her ancestor once repairs to the cruiser have been made.
It is three a.m. when fuzzball Quig awakens Brittany and tells her the IMPACT forces have her building surrounded.
She does know her life is in danger. Brittany escapes with the fuzzballs and her adventures begin.
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Print: $14.47 After a search of a millennium, computers aboard Inter-galactic Starship Omega find an over populated and polluted planet called Earth.
The humanoids aboard cannot be kept alive for the estimated two hundred years required to find another solar system so the journey must end. It is time to arouse Pazz and prepare her for life on Earth while cloned younger sister, Kylina can be kept in reserve. There is also Lunol but he is male and doesn't count.
With an armlet computer for company, Pazz lands in the West Australian desert. Onboard the Indian Pacific Express for Sydney, three days journey away she catches the flu virus. With no immunity she becomes seriously ill and is taken off the train at Adelaide. In her delirious state she calls out in an ancient dead Greek language that only linguist Duncan Bourne can understand.
How do Paz, Kylina and Lunol adapt to Earth and how do locals react to having the alien humans in their midst?
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Print: $15.50 The bees that attack a group of students at a graduation party are far from ordinary. Every student is stung once in the neck, except Madison who is stung twice.
When she wakes up she finds she is in a new strange place called Buckoway but still remembers Earth. Her friends have no memories of home. Buckoway is a strange hybrid of modern and old civilizations. There is electricity but no motor vehicles, aircraft or firearms. It is as if something wanted to recreate a simple society but with modern health and living facilities With wagonmasters Hamish and Sean Madison she sets out to find the reason she has been transferred to this new world.
Madison awakes again to find herself back on Earth and again with her friends. They, however, have no memory of this Buckoway. There are two versions of her friends. She alone seems to travel back and forth between her two existences whenever she awakens.
She attempts to find the reason for this strange situation.
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Print: $13.97 Download: $5.00 Doctor Reid Tucker's intention to spend the summer at a remote cabin at Eagle's Claw Lake in northeast Washington State with only his dog, Cinders, never eventuates. On the trip there, pilot Kate Meltz calls in with the amphibian to a commune at the other end of the lake. While there, Reid pulls a desperate teenage girl, Lorie Somerville, from the water.
This begins a frightening time as fanatical commune leader, Peter Littlejohn, tries to find Lorie and prevent her from leaving. Though he doesn't find her on the aircraft, he sabotages it so the trio are left stranded at Reid's cabin.
It becomes obvious that the place is more than just a remote religious commune. The girl is terrified of being caught and begs Reid to look for Jennifer and Sassy, two of her friends who have also escaped.
Though pursued by Littlejohn, Lorie leads Reid and Kate to a cave where the girls are waiting.
The thrilling story continues.
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Print: $14.47 Download: $5.00 While converting a closed country school into a summer batch near Wellington, New Zealand, Steve meets neighbour, Lavina. Their friendship soon develops into a romance that hurtles them into danger and changes their lives and the life of Lavina's daughter, Cathy forever.
In a drunken rage, Lavina's husband, Grant abducts her, Cathy and Steve. He abandons the trio on an isolated mountaintop airstrip above bush-covered ranges, at least four day's walking distance from the nearest road.
Facing an onslaught of life-threatening perils, including frostbite, raging icy rapids, and violent storms, the trio struggles to survive and find their way back to civilization.
Is the fate that seems to control their destinies actually premeditated? Can their fortitude overcome the grave odds against them?
Join this brave trio as their strength and love is repeatedly tested and they learn what it really means to be a family.
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Print: $14.47 This fast paced novel combines human emotions of love, empathy, revenge and greed with the sheer force of Mother Nature. The inhabitants of Long Valley Road have their lives changed forever by the events happening around them. Join them and see, through their eyes, how one family grows and blossoms through the good times and bad. Julie tries to cope with a new country, Fiona discovers she is not just a mother-in-law and a young schoolteacher and lonely widower fall in love. But is this love strong enough to surmount the problems about to descend upon them all?
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ClaireClaire (book)
Print: $14.47 Download: $5.00 The liberated 60s have not reached the shores of New Zealand when Claire, a single pregnant girl is sent up-country to have her child, which is to be adopted out.
The Sloane family are strangers who offer to board her through this time.
But are they?
Claire is thrust into the unknown when Alan and Hazel Sloane are involved in a truck accident on the farm. It is up to Claire to help. She does but is now alone on the farm. Initial fears at being alone reach a climax when an elderly man arrives to look after the animals.
He is Bob Hodge, Hazel's father. Claire and Bob feed out in the snow and gradually an affinity develops between the pair.
In this conservative rural area, the tranquillity of the surface hides a darker background that goes back a generation to before Claire was born.
And she is directly involved.
This is a story of how scars of the past are opened and conquered by the love of the present for and by Claire, a girl who becomes a woman in the months that make up 1961.
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Print: $14.47 Download: $5.00 It is April 1945 when U-boat U-2072 heads out of Hamburg for the last time. In its hold, the torpedoes have been replaced by gold and Nazi loot. The destination is Argentina. On board, ruthless Kapitanleutnant Falk Friedrich has brought his fiancée, Kristin Dassmer.
The U-boat is attacked by American torpedo bombers off the Bahamas and sunk. Kristin finds herself in a lifeboat with three others including Bern Munkelt, the man she is to spend the rest of her life with. They are rescued by Danardo Rolle and taken to Little Toe Cay, a remote island where Kristin's adventures begin.
"Azure Sea Gold" is an adventure, a love story and the story of greed, jealousy and ruthless people as well as a family story centered around three generations of women and their loved ones. It will make the reader enthralled and enraptured by the sheer pace and excitement, common in a Ross Richdale novel.
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Print: $13.97 After her mother dies, Astrid moves to the small Oregon coastal town of Hook Bay to live with her grandfather, Steve Barton. She has to cope with life in a new environment with old friends’ help and betrayal, a new school to attend for her senior year and an early encounter with the forces of nature.
Steve’s love and guidance, as well as Astrid’s ability as an artist helps her through difficult times. New friends enter her life, old ones return and her talent is encouraged by the local school principal. Her life now has a future.
That is until the tsunami builds up in the northern Pacific Ocean and heads east...
Directly towards Hook Bay.
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Print: $14.47 ISBN 0-9582702-0-1
Gail Fernhill, newly appointed of principal of Queen Anne's Girls' School in Dunedin, New Zealand is haunted by her past but befriends Neil Goodall. Neil pierces her reserve to support and help her when he discovers that as a teenager, she killed her abusive father in self-defence.
However, the case is reopened after the discovery of her father's rifle. Inspector Peter Carrington attempts, by fair means or foul, to build up a murder case against Gail and directs Tania Brogan, an undercover police officer employed by the school as a teacher, to find evidence. However, Tania switches her allegiance to help Gail but unwittingly plays into Carrington's hand.
Is Gail's successful life as a principal about to be cut short by her past? And what of her abduction? Is Neil's love enough to help the blemished jewel through these trying times?
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Print: $13.97 Download: $5.00 There is an a cave-in at Misty Depths Catacombs, Wyoming and Renee Bonnet finds herself stranded with a broken leg and two strangers, Lem, a business man and a runaway teenager, Courtney. The cave is the catalyst but the events depend on the new catalyst, Renee, who finds herself drawn into the lives of her companions
Catalyst is a gripping action story of three people trapped in a cave together. They learn to trust and depend on each other not knowing whether they will survive the ordeal or not. It is a romantic drama that combines the sheer force of nature with the frailty of human emotions, greed, jealousy, passion, companionship and love.
This is a rescue story that does not stop when the victims are rescued but continues, as real life does, to mould new lives for the lonely characters.
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Print: $15.47 Download: $5.00 From Canadian fir forests, oaks of England and onto the fern bush in New Zealand, this family saga centres around four forthright, liberal women, spans five generations, three continents, two world wars, and one hundred years.
It begins in 1898 with Amanda's struggle to survive and prosper away from her domineering father.
Each period in time is filled with drama, joy and illustrates the determination of each woman to enrich her life through love of partners and families and a liberal outlook on life.
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Print: $14.47 This is a story of a naive young teacher who is influenced by the women around him. He matures, lives life to the fullest and becomes a leader in his chosen profession. There are tragedies along the way, changing attitudes and the profound love that keeps him going through good times and bad.
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Print: $13.97 0-9582614-2-3
When Sunset Grove Primary's Headteacher, Bree Ashworth goes to help teacher Jenny Dench in her classroom she is attacked by an intruder. The attacker escapes and Bree is taken to hospital. Her husband Colin arrives and tells her he is leaving to move from London with his mistress Linda Rouke.
Bree has bookings to attend a reading conference in New Zealand over that country's summer vacation. With double tickets bought and Colin gone, she invites Jenny to come with her.
In New Zealand the small commuter aeroplane they fly in crashes in thick bush country. The pilot is killed and Jenny and Bree try to survive by themselves. However, all is not lost, for a tramper in the bush, Ray Barnett and his dog, Pattie find them.
Police in England tell Colin, Bree has been involved in an air crash and is missing. Colin abandons his partner and flies out to New Zealand but his intentions are not those one would expect from a worried husband....
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Print: $14.47 Download: $5.00 When terrorists attack and sink a container ship, five passengers survive and land on a Pacific Ocean atoll. Jana and her four companions must live together and survive. This romantic thriller is covers the Pacific Ocean and onto New Zealand.
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Print: $15.47 Download: $5.00 Countess in Exile is a thriller, a love story and the story of human endurance. These are wrapped in a journey that reaches across the world from war torn Europe in World War Two to New Zealand through the second half of the twentieth century and into the new millennium.
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Print: $14.47 When Jasmin is caught in the terrorist attack on the London underground in 2005, her terrified thoughts help her. As does similar terror for identical women Katherine in the year 1310, Trudie in 1874, Giselle in 1945 and Zarine in 2374.They are are awoken on the planet Cerowain as electrical charges contained within crystal balls in 2341. With Zarine's knowledge and the base's computer they are given new physical bodies and find they are like identical sisters.
They must find out about themselves and also ward off the spunoids, a spider like intelligent species who are at war with humanoids in this time.
Why are they there and why did they all suffer a terrorizing attack before arriving? And is their own future being controlled by something else in the vast universe that transcends time and space?
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Print: $14.47 Download: $5.00 ISBN 0-9582559-7-0
If magic arises unchecked to breed upon itself, it is unstoppable and the balance of good and evil will be compromised for ever.
Quotes from "The Great Book of Everything That Will Be."
In the days of old when knights ruled the land of Castle Rockshade, Kyla Kiro does not want to be forced into marrying the evil Sir Edwin O'Hane. She persuades Shane Wynex, the man she really loves to escape with her to the surrounding forest. She has friends there who can help, from Slither a transman, half human and half tree to the forest dwarfs and talking birds.
Edwin uses his own magic to trace her. After his attempts initially fail he returns to select another bride, this time Jaythen Gardan. She suffers badly and cries out for help. The forest animals hear her call, she is rescued and teams up with Kyla and Shane.
The prophecies from The Great Book of Everything That Will Be are about to be played out.
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Print: $14.47 Download: $5.00 ISBN 0-9582614-3-1
Cindy Meikin has a strange experience that puts her in contact with Sylvia, a girl her own age from another world. After taking Sylvia home, she discovers that her mother, Natasha and herself came from this world.
Cindy, Natasha and Sylvia find themselves involved in an ongoing war against foreign invaders. They meet Archwizard Lightshield, who originally knew Natasha, in a castle under siege.
Cindy also finds that she is an Emerald Eye Wizard and has strange magical powers in this new land that come to her without being called upon. The adventure continues with Cindy's powers becoming stronger and seemingly being controlled by some unknown force.
But why has this all happened to her? What is her real connection with Sylvia and will the pair be able to drive off a ruthless enemy?
Books 2 & 3 Click Page 2.
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Print: $14.47 Download: $5.00 ISBN 0-9582614-4-X
Cindy and Sylvia from Emerald Eyes Destiny are skating on a lake when a strange mist swirls in and a little bird arrives with a message on his leg asking for help.
They travel through a magical void to another world and find Muftin, the bird, can speak. A dwarf, Gikre is with Tulco, a girl with emerald eyes like their own. She is caught in a bear trap set by human invaders trying to catch them.
After freeing Tulco Cindy and Sylvia help her to escape from the humans. However, they must cope with strange mists called vapin .
After being attacked by a red vapin the white vapin comes to their assistance and communicates with them with thoughts. They are told to head to White Sword Peninsular.
Also, Cindy loses her magical powers as Tulco gains them. The youngster matures at a phenomenal rate to become a woman the same age as Cindy and Sylvia.
Why is this so? How does tshe use her special powers to solve the problems in this magical world?
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Print: $14.47 Download: $5.00 ISBN 0-9582614-5-8
In this third adventure, the Emerald Eyes wizards and talking birds find themselves in a land a millennium back in time. Xentrix the dragon is with them and they rescue a flying girl about to be sacrificed on a pyre in front of a pyramid.
She is Kondel a Pyram, a humanoid creature with wings who live inside magical pyramids. The enemy in this world are ancient human priests determined to eliminate all flying creatures from their land. Birds have already disappeared and it appears that Kondel is the last of her species left.
But is she?
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