Shayne Parkinson writes historical novels set in New Zealand. The first book, Sentence of Marriage, begins in 1881, and the most recently completed, A Second Chance, takes the series to 1908.
While the characters and their stories are her own invention, the broader setting is the real New Zealand of the period, with actual, historical events; from major ones like the Tarawera eruption, the baby farming scandal and the extension of suffrage to women through to relatively local events such as the great Bay of Plenty floods of 1892.