AustLit

'Alan C. Williams is a widely published Australian author, concentrating mainly on women's magazines, where he pushes the boundaries way past 'boy meets girl' love stories. He has had over forty short stories published in Australia's That's Life, many of them included in The Rain, the Park and Other Things, his first collection. Since 2012, he has had stories published in Ireland, Canada and Britain, where he is also a regular contributor to Take a Break magazine. His quirky tales cover crime, fantasy, science fiction, romance and thrillers, usually set in the here and now. He has vowed never to write a western. Despite being both male and Australian, he is a member of the RNA (Romantic Novelists Association). It seems that, like many of his stories, the impossible is possible after all. Alan is a retired science teacher, currently exiled and living in France, residing in a seventeenth-century stone farmhouse with his long-suffering wife, Anne, and maniacal cat, Zorro.' (Source : Booktopia)

'Newly qualified teacher Amy Shaw has a lot of adjusting to do when she moves from Sydney to remote Gurawang. On her first night there, someone plants an explosive in a railway wagon outside her bedroom window—the first in a chain of dramatic events that colour Amy's new life. After a nearly catastrophic misstep with a handsome local banker, does she have a chance of winning the heart of the town's senior constable—and can they work together to dispel the clouds that hang over Gurawang?'

Source: Publisher's blurb (Linford ed.).