AustLit

The arrival of Dr Matthieu Laurant at the Rainbow Bay Flying Doctor base certainly interested Lucia Delano, though she was surprise when he seemed equally interested in her! Lucia knew that Matt would be returning to France at the end of the year, when they would have to part because she couldn't leave her invalid mother. But couldn't they, perhaps, enjoy their love in the meantime? It would give her plenty of memories for the years to come - if Matt was willing. - back cover (Chatswood)

'Perri had come here to Coorain, in the Dead Heart of Australia's Outback, to work. She was here with her uncle's anthropological team to study the customs and legends of the aborigines – not to teeter on the brink of disaster with a man like Gray Faulkner, the cattle baron and Boss of Coorain.

'For disaster it would be, Perri knew. Certainly there was no denying that she had fallen in love with him, more or less on sight; to some extent, she knew, Gray was attracted by her. But it was no use pretending that it amounted to anything more than a passing physical attraction. Perri didn't fit into the Outback way of life at all.

'If and when Gray wanted a wife, he would surely choose Kim Talbot, who was so clearly being groomed for the position ... ' (Publication summary)

'Belle Amber had always been part of Karen Hartmann's life, and now she was living there again it was dearer to her than anything or anyone else - except Guy Amber.

'Guy was Guy, a man of immense charisma, but nobody had warned Karen about Celia, the exquisite figure with a heart of ice...' (Publication summary)

'To take her mind off the tragic death of her father, Corinne Briant went to work on Bahl Bahla, the great cattle station in the Outback.

'There she met Kiall Ballantine, who thought her just a society orchid and misinterpreted the reason for her unhappiness. It was the beginning of a tempestuous relationship.' (Publication summary)

'"Love comes swiftly, at first meeting. There is an attraction that grows undeniably stronger until it is a fire inside. You do not believe in love like that?"

'Morgana Carol never had been in love like that, and, hearing Felipe's words, she knew that now she never could be, that even if such a love did come her way, she must somehow find the strength to withstand it. A lovely tropical island provides the background to this poignant story of a nurse who, knowing that the future could not give her the same things as it did to others, found herself in the very situation she wished to avoid.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

'The scar that marked Andrew Dalwin's face was a slight thing compared to the scar that a woman's fickleness had left on his heart and his feelings. How Trina Meriton overcame his suspicion and distrust and brought him back to happiness is told in a pleasant story, set in Australia. Is Trina Meriton the woman to give him back joy?' (Publisher's blurb)

When Kay's fiancé refuses to marry her until the mystery surrounding her family is completely resolved, she travels into Africa in search of the truth. But her encounter with the Tuareg people of the Sahara Desert (and, in particular, with Alim Ibn Enian) leaves her radically transformed.

'Little orphaned Peter Balgare was no relation of Aileen's, but she felt responsible for him. Peter's father, she knew, had relatives in Spain, but he had never wanted to have anything to do with them - and when Aileen met Peter's uncle, the haughty Duarte Adriano, Conde de Marindos, she could easily understand why, and saw no reason why she should hand Peter over to him. But Duarte Adriano was a force to be reckoned with - as Aileen discovered before long!

'Was there any hope for their love? Only a miracle could bring them together. Duarte Adriano was wealthy and arrestingly attractive. He might have been perfect had he not seen women simply as adornments! Besides Duarte was tied by a family-arranged engagement.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

'Carefree, content, young Kerry Derwin wanted life to go on forever just the way it was. To Kerry, love was a lot of nonsense. Certainly she wasn't interested in marrying and settling down. And every one in the village knew it.

'So she wasn't very pleased at the upheaval caused by the arrival of a film unit making a movie on the moors. As for the star of the film, Paul Devron, he was conceited and a confirmed ladies' man. Kerry had no intention of adding herself to his long list of conquests.

'But that, of course, was before she actually met Paul Devron...'

Source: Publisher's blurb.