He forces her to marry him ~ but she only wants to keep her freedom
The remote mountain village is part of Nurse Stephanie as are the people living there. They support her in her dream of building a rehabilitation center in their valley. All crashes down when her father almost kills an influential millionaire. Reluctantly she agrees to marry and care for him to keep her father out of prison, already devising a plan for her freedom. But don’t they say Man makes plans...God laughs?

Architect Sean had the best part of his life ahead of him when an accident cost him his legs. What’s a man worth without his legs? All he thinks of is giving up and taking revenge. Someone has to pay; someone has to be punished. The nurse with the crazy idea that he’ll walk again one day is the ideal person for his plans. But nothing goes to plan. Ripped out of his millionaire lifestyle, he finds himself engulfed in everyday backwater life. Designing chicken coups instead of award-winning buildings, he gets to see a different side of life. Can he start a new life?

Ko au te awa - ko te awa ko au ... I am the river, the river is me
Settler’s Ridge is a small mountain village on the Whanganui river in the heart of New Zealand’s mountainous wilderness. Time has stood still, and the four-hundred residents are short on words and big on helping each other.