Fortitude and Fate ebook | Ross Richdale | 9781877438745

While converting a closed country school into a summer batch near Wellington, New Zealand, Steve Garnet meets neighbour, Lavina Ryland. 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. 

Grant Ryland learns about his wife's infidelity and, in a drunken rage, drugs Lavina, Cathy and Steve. He abducts them and 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.

After a teaching career, Ross Richdale now writes full time. He has completed 39 novels, both contemporary and science fiction novels, most of which are on line as ebooks . He lives in the small university city of Palmerston North in the North Island of New Zealand and is married with three children. 

When he is not writing, Ross enjoys drawing and wandering in the countryside.. 

Many of his novels reflect his interest in the rural lifestyle as well as the cross section of personalities encountered during his years as a teacher. Ordinary people rather than the super rich, the super powerful or violent, are the main characters in his novels. He is also interested in current events and uses international incidents as a backdrop for many of his novels.