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Her name was Mary Ann Tyler. For more than a century, her name sat quietly on Sheet 82 of the 1893 Women’s Suffrage Petition. This is the story imagined behind that name. Lawrence, Otago, 1878. William Tyler is a young stableman with a difficult past, a gift with horses, and a dream of owning land that he has spent years dreaming and working towards. Mary Ann McNamara is the sharp-minded daughter of a respected local man, restless inside the expectations placed on women in a small goldfields town. When William is chosen to drive a dangerous coach journey from Lawrence to Dunedin, carrying hidden gold under the cover of a funeral party, he expects trouble on the road. He does not expect Mary Ann. Across the wild Otago landscape, through flood, suspicion, danger, and quiet moments of trust, two people begin to see each other clearly. Their story becomes one of courage, partnership, and the slow making of a marriage strong enough to allow both of them to become more than the world expected. Years later, Mary Ann will become a tailoress, a midwife, a mother, and one of the women who helped gather signatures for the 1893 Women’s Suffrage Petition in the Lawrence district. Her name appears on Sheet 82, part of the movement that made New Zealand the first self-governing country in the world where women won the right to vote. Inspired by real family history, colonial records, and the women of New Zealand’s suffrage movement, Her Name is on Sheet 82 is a historical novel about ordinary people caught inside extraordinary change and about the kind of love that does not ask a woman to make herself smaller.