The Kate Hardy Wartime Adventures: Books 1-3
(2026)(A book in the Kate Hardy Wartime Mystery series)
An omnibus of novels by Wendy M Wilson
Three novels. One war. One ending worth all of it.
New Zealand, 1943. The Americans have arrived — thousands of them, camped along the Kāpiti Coast, training for a Pacific war that is engulfing their world. Kate Hardy is a journalist who resents being given all the ‘women’s stories’, assigned to ration books and knitting circles; but as the story begins, she’s writing about a body on the beach instead. Harry Wilhelm is a Marine Major attached to the US Consulate, with a surname he won't explain and a past he has never told anyone.
Kate's father knows who it is. Sam Hardy advises the government, and one phone call is enough to move an American officer to the other side of the Pacific. He makes that call every time Harry gets too close to his daughter, and Kate spends two years watching the man she loves disappear into postings she isn't allowed to know about. She has her own suspicions to contend with: a family name that sounds German to the wrong neighbors, a police chief who wants her for his son and for her grandfather's money rather more, and a story that keeps leading her back to the men who'd prefer she stopped asking.
From the drowned Marines of the Kāpiti Coast to the far end of the Pacific, the Kate Hardy trilogy is a story of secrets kept out of love and out of fear, and of a woman who refused to be managed by either.
Contains all three novels in the trilogy:On Kāpiti Coast,A Very Important Person, andAfter Tarawa. A complete story with a guaranteed happy ending — no cliffhangers, no waiting.
For readers of Kate Quinn, Kristin Hannah, and Jacqueline Winspear.
Genre: Historical Mystery
New Zealand, 1943. The Americans have arrived — thousands of them, camped along the Kāpiti Coast, training for a Pacific war that is engulfing their world. Kate Hardy is a journalist who resents being given all the ‘women’s stories’, assigned to ration books and knitting circles; but as the story begins, she’s writing about a body on the beach instead. Harry Wilhelm is a Marine Major attached to the US Consulate, with a surname he won't explain and a past he has never told anyone.
Kate's father knows who it is. Sam Hardy advises the government, and one phone call is enough to move an American officer to the other side of the Pacific. He makes that call every time Harry gets too close to his daughter, and Kate spends two years watching the man she loves disappear into postings she isn't allowed to know about. She has her own suspicions to contend with: a family name that sounds German to the wrong neighbors, a police chief who wants her for his son and for her grandfather's money rather more, and a story that keeps leading her back to the men who'd prefer she stopped asking.
From the drowned Marines of the Kāpiti Coast to the far end of the Pacific, the Kate Hardy trilogy is a story of secrets kept out of love and out of fear, and of a woman who refused to be managed by either.
Contains all three novels in the trilogy:On Kāpiti Coast,A Very Important Person, andAfter Tarawa. A complete story with a guaranteed happy ending — no cliffhangers, no waiting.
For readers of Kate Quinn, Kristin Hannah, and Jacqueline Winspear.
Genre: Historical Mystery
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