Description: Keoni a Roroa Kiwi's life is threatened when his mother passes to the spirit world and his father abandons both the egg and community, leaving it without a leader. Also meet Emily in Victorian Britain who who leaves a life of privilege to be a nanny's assistant. See the outcome when Emily and her family reach Keoni's Kingdom.
Brief description: Born and brought up on New Zealand's West Coast in Westland, where the Kiwi Kingdom Series is set; Rosemary is a retired nurse, Mother, and Grandmother. Living with her husband in Western Australia, walks in nature, making craft for charity and writing fill her days. Her mother's love of writing came in the 2000's. Rosemary revels in the joy of creating characters than can be, and do whatever she likes them to be and do.
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From Reviewer at Dorrance Publishing: Using the native and introduced animals of her New Zealand homeland as characters, Rosemary Thomas draws us into a world of intrigue and community. Rosemary portrays both sides of human-animal interactions and the complicated way all creatures interact with one another in times of normalcy and danger.