"People who maintain there are six degrees of separation have clearly never been to Aotearoa. Make it two, and you're getting warmer…" - Stephanie Ruth Six addictive short stories by award winning New Zealand writer, Stephanie Ruth, celebrating warmth of connection, and the Kiwi phenomenon of one-degree-of-separation. Linked to the Otago Waters series, these quirky romance tidbits can all be read as standalone. A beginning and ending for Poppy and Clementine, torn apart by distance, but stitched back together with shared history. The Bit That Means Something is concluded in Lead a Horse to Water. Katie weathers a stinky pheromone experiment in Scent, Not Sensibility, a newbie gardener learns all about life's laterals in Heads or Tails, and identities and intentions are not what they seem in Second Act. Fancy a spot of baking? Perhaps not from Talulah's kitchen! She refuses to follow the recipe in Heaped Teaspoons. Add a Splash of Love is the first anthology of short stories in Stephanie Ruth's Otago Waters series, set in the beautiful South Island of Aotearoa, New Zealand. You can sign on to Stephanie's newsletter to receive a exclusive short stories, bonus prologues, epilogues, and cut scenes with all the characters you love. For the first full length novel in this series, read Mako Bay.