AustLit

'Erin McDonald is swept off her feet by high powered business mogul, Giles Brightman. 

'She can hardly believe it when he proposes marriage. 

'But she soon realises he wants nothing more from her than to look beautiful and be compliant. 

'When he mistreats her she plans to leave him. With little money of her own, and a platinum Amex card, she develops an audacious idea. 

'She has only business on her mind. 

'Until she meets Aden Marlowe. 

'Could a new life lead to a new love?'

Source : publisher's blurb

'Elly Cooper’s friend Jackson has gone missing — along with a journal that contains her dead father’s lifelong work and the recipe for a product he described as the ‘fountain of youth’, potentially worth millions.

'The catch is that the main ingredient is a rare plant found only in the Daintree Rainforest in Queensland. And only her father knew where to find it.

'Elly enlists the aid of ex-policeman Mitchell Beaumont to help her find Jackson, the journal and the plant. But someone else is on the trail of the precious plant, and it seems they’ll stop at nothing — even murder — to get what they want.

'It’s a race against time in the tropical heat as Elly and Mitchell battle the perils of the rainforest — and the feelings growing between them.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

'It is 1900. The turn of the century. A time of new beginnings.

'The old ways are changing, but they can't change fast enough for Joy Barron...

'She wants it all. Love. Marriage.  Success. 

'Joy wants it NOW, and she chafes at the restrictions placed on her by the conventions of the day.

'Joy is determined Redwoods will become a prominent thoroughbred stud. Her ambition knows no bounds, and she dreams of breeding a champion racehorse. When David Cavanagh doesn’t agree with her ideas she schemes to get her way, determined to make her dream a reality. After their marriage she continues on her wilful way until tragedy strikes, and fills her with remorse. 

'Then Thunder, the big, black stallion enters their lives, causing more dissension. Could he possibly become the champion to win the coveted Gold Cup?

 'When David goes to America with an open-end return date it leaves Joy broken-hearted.

 'In his absence Josh Frazer comes to work at Redwoods, and Joy faces the biggest dilemma of her life. 

'Against the heart-stopping background of the prestigious Gold Cup, Joy must make her decision. Can a woman love two men? How can she choose between two loves?'

Source : publisher's blurb

'An Australian rural romance about an unexpected inheritance that sends a city girl down deep into the country...

'When Cassie Taylor inherits Yallandoo, a cattle station near Cairns in Far North Queensland, she is shocked. What does she know about running cattle? But the property has been in her family for generations, and Cassie is not a quitter. She leaves behind her Sydney life and heads to the station, determined to make a go of it.

'But a long drought and falling prices mean challenges Cassie doesn’t expect. To save her heritage, she’s going to have to come up with some new ideas — and fast. Then the threatening letters start to arrive. Someone doesn’t want Cassie to succeed, and they’re willing to go to any lengths to stop her...' (Publication summary)

'A collection of light hearted short stories which could be set any where in the world. We can find humour and interest in any situation and possibly reflect on the absolute joy of living.

'These little anecdotes have been the result of some of the wonderful quirks of our human nature.

'Take a moment to read and look around you and find other classic moments of our fantastic world'

Source : publisher's blurb

'A different time, a different place, but you will live this story as if it were your own

'Married  Woman’s Property

Act of 1893

New South Wales

Henceforth when a woman marries her property shall remain her own

'With the passing of the Married Woman’s Property Act, Kitty Barron no longer needs to fear losing Redwoods, her property at Bulahdelah, should she choose to marry again.

'But she is content with her safe and settled life – until a chance meeting with Rufe Cavanagh changes her mind.

'Meanwhile, her daughter Joy is emerging into young womanhood, and longs to explore the world beyond her childhood home. 

'In spite of Kitty’s misgivings, Joy and her friend Lily go to England to enjoy a London Season, where the experiences they encounter force the girls to grow up in a hurry, and raise new challenges for both Kitty and Joy.'

'It is often a spur-of-the-moment decision that can become a turning point in life.

'So it is for Kitty Morland, a young woman in London in 1878.

'Cheated of her birthright and condemned to a soul-destroying existence, Kitty yields to temptation one fateful day and commits a desperate, perhaps criminal, act. Realisation of its possible terrifying consequences forces her to flee to the other side of the world, to Australia, taking her widowed mother, Bella, with her. 

'Fearful that her past will catch up with her she marries William, an English aristocrat, and moves from Sydney to Redwoods in Bulahdelah, a remote logging area in the mid north of New South Wales – a  place of red-cedar forests, wild rivers, and the loneliness of an early settlement. 

'Kitty needs all her courage and determination to survive a loveless marriage, dominated by a husband with a dark side to his character. 

'She realises too late that the passion she feels for Rufe Cavanagh, a charismatic and entrepreneurial colonial, is reciprocated 

' Kitty finally has a chance for love and happiness but, torn between love and duty, she must make a difficult decision that will affect the lives of others. How will she decide?'

Source : publisher's blurb