Walking On Ice

By: Emma Stevens

Walking on Ice is the 1st book in a trilogy of memoirs; part romance and part “girl’s own adventure”. An on-line friendship between a New Zealander and an American blossoms into romance, concluding among the Eskimo in the wintry wilds of remote Alaska. For adventurous romantics and arm-chair travellers alike.

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Walking on Ice is the 1st book in a trilogy of memoirs which are part romance and part “girl’s own adventure”. The story begins in the warm climes of New Zealand in the South Pacific when an on-line friendship between an American & a New Zealander blossoms into romance, and concludes among the Eskimo in the wintry wilds of remote Alaska. For adventurous romantics and arm-chair travellers alike.

After years of living in Sydney, Australia, Emma Stevens returns to New Zealand ready to live the simple life, teaching in a small rural town with her Tenterfield terrier as companion. Convinced by a friend to vary her social contacts by on-line dating, Emma is surprised to find herself corresponding with ‘Kotzman’, the principal of a high school in the Arctic Circle in Alaska. They are worlds apart: while Emma is picking spring flowers, Kotzman is ice fishing; Emma is wrapping up against the chill winds of an Otago winter, while Kotzman enjoys summer caribou camp. However, as the months pass and the relationship deepens, Emma and Kotzman discover that they have much in common.

At the millennium, Kotzman/Gary joins Emma to watch the new century dawn on a NZ beach. When Gary returns in the New Year on a sabbatical from teaching, their romance really blossoms.

This memoir tells the story of Emma’s life-changing decision to marry her Alaskan man and leave her beloved New Zealand for a world of snow and ice, caribou and bears, and the Yup’ik Eskimo people.

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