I've dabbled in tales of Caribbean civil war and another stand alone romance mystery & suspense, this one set in the depths of southern New Zealand...
It’s the perfect place to disappear… and to fall in love

Libby Preston has found a town where no one knows her secret.
In the tiny, rural community of Owatura on New Zealand’s South Island, she can escape the past and give her young daughter a normal life.But when a double-jointed dance move almost blows Libby’s cover, she can’t risk putting their lives in danger again. That’s why she accepts the lead role in the local theatre club’s production starring opposite rugged, local legend Oliver Leyendecker.
Oliver can’t wait to leave Owatura and his family’s expectations behind. He recognises Libby as a lost soul, except he refuses to give in to their attraction and have another reason tying him to his hometown.
Then Oliver unwittingly puts a sleazy private detective on her tail, and Libby must decide if it’s time to run again… or stay and fight.
​But if she stays, she’ll have to learn to fire a shotgun. And, more frightening still, put her trust in love.
Escape to the South Land is a heart-warming, escapist, small-town suspense full of twists and turns with a touch of humour and a slow-burn romance about the power of love and community.
What can you do when the whole town thinks your family’s behind a million dollar robbery? And the cops won’t even look at the dodgy but disturbingly attractive drifter who’s moved into your motel?

Patti Ingram picks up her magnifying glass to catch the burglars herself.
Undercover insurance investigator, Dan Griggs, gets the shock of his life when the crime boss he’s supposed to unmask is a pretty twenty-something with a daft dog and a sweet mum who sings like an angel.
Patti will fight police, sleazy real estate agents, suspicious odd-job men — anyone who takes on the Ingrams because that’s her job since her beloved dad died in jail.
Dan’s got a battered reputation to retrieve.
When the next robbery ends in murder, Dan and Patti’s brother are the prime suspects.
If Dan and Patti can’t work together, both their lives will be ruined.
There's no turning back...

His father threw it all away on the wrong side of a failed rebellion. 
A university scholarship offers a golden chance for seventeen-year-old Sebastien Ochoa to lead his family out of exile in the southern mountains.
Until a brutal attack on a peaceful march drives Sebastien into the guerrilla army that defies the tyrant who rules his Caribbean homeland.
His family disowns him. Murderous rivalries within the revolutionary movement test Sebastien’s loyalties, but there’s no going back when one of the dictator’s most sadistic military commanders executes the mother of the woman he loves.
Time's running out...

Support for a second armed uprising against Isla Baconne’s military dictator rallies to Movimiento Cinco de Marzo — M5M.
Sebastien Ochoa’s kicking his heels in Mexico, exiled with the other survivors of the failed rebellion that sparked the popular grassroots movement.
Sebastien must return home to join the clandestinospreparing the way for a second guerrilla war, and to re-connect with the woman he loves.