The Crossroads
A Women's Fiction Novel Where Secrets Unfold and Found Family Changes Everything
Published on 19. June 2025
Book
Paperback/Softback
368 pages
978-1-0367-0431-5 (ISBN)
Description
When the past comes knocking, sisterhood opens the door.
Rosie O'Shea is determined to keep her late husband's outback hotel alive-even if it means putting her own dreams on hold.
Stephanie Bailey is barely holding things together, with her farm on the verge of collapse and her marriage unraveling. And Faith Montgomery, a city girl untethered, finds temporary refuge at the Crossroads Hotel, all while quietly searching for her birth mother.
At the Crossroads Hotel, long-buried secrets surface, betrayals come to light, and unlikely bonds begin to form. Together, these women must face their pasts to forge a future of their own.
The Crossroads is a standalone novel in The Homecoming Collection - a moving women's fiction story about second chances, unexpected friendships, and the strength found in chosen family.
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Praise for The Crossroads:
????? So well written that I felt I was there.
????? Highly engaging.
????? I was absolutely riveted by the story.
????? It will stay with me for a long time.
????? Perfection.
????? I'd absolutely recommend this.
Rosie O'Shea is determined to keep her late husband's outback hotel alive-even if it means putting her own dreams on hold.
Stephanie Bailey is barely holding things together, with her farm on the verge of collapse and her marriage unraveling. And Faith Montgomery, a city girl untethered, finds temporary refuge at the Crossroads Hotel, all while quietly searching for her birth mother.
At the Crossroads Hotel, long-buried secrets surface, betrayals come to light, and unlikely bonds begin to form. Together, these women must face their pasts to forge a future of their own.
The Crossroads is a standalone novel in The Homecoming Collection - a moving women's fiction story about second chances, unexpected friendships, and the strength found in chosen family.
__________________________________
Praise for The Crossroads:
????? So well written that I felt I was there.
????? Highly engaging.
????? I was absolutely riveted by the story.
????? It will stay with me for a long time.
????? Perfection.
????? I'd absolutely recommend this.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
United Kingdom
Product notice
Paperback (UK-B)
Dimensions
Height: 130 mm
Width: 198 mm
Thickness: 29 mm
Weight
324 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-0367-0431-5 (9781036704315)
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Pamela Cook is an author, podcaster, writing teacher and mentor. Her best-selling debut novel Blackwattle Lake (2012) was published by Hachette Australia in 2012 followed by three rural fiction titles. Her latest releases Cross My Heart (2019) and All We Dream (2020) have taken her writing in an exciting new direction.
Pamela writes page-turning contemporary women's fiction, delving deep into the psychology of her characters and the complexity of relationships in all their forms. She explores the impact of trauma, grief and generational conflict, drawing on the resilience and courage she finds in inspirational women. Her writing is imbued with a deep love of the natural world and its power to heal. on the good, the bad and the downright odd of human behaviour, Sally writes incisively about family a
Producing and hosting Writes4Women, a weekly podcast that supports women writers and celebrates women's writing, is one of Pamela's not-so-guilty pleasures. She is also a Writer Ambassador for Room To Read, a not-for-profit organisation promoting literacy and gender equality in developing countries.
An experienced teacher, Pamela tutors at Writing NSW and the Australian Writers' Centre and loves to mentor emerging authors. When she's not writing or reading, she wastes as much time as possible riding her handsome quarter horse Rio, hanging out with her three adult daughters and menagerie of animals on her dream-come-true rural property in the beautiful Illawarra region of NSW, and dreaming of a road trip in Virginia, her vintage caravan.
Social Media Links
Website: https://pamelacook.com.au/
https://www.writes4women.com/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/PamelaCookAuthor
Instagram: @pamelacookwrites
Twitter: @PamelaCookAU
Pamela writes page-turning contemporary women's fiction, delving deep into the psychology of her characters and the complexity of relationships in all their forms. She explores the impact of trauma, grief and generational conflict, drawing on the resilience and courage she finds in inspirational women. Her writing is imbued with a deep love of the natural world and its power to heal. on the good, the bad and the downright odd of human behaviour, Sally writes incisively about family a
Producing and hosting Writes4Women, a weekly podcast that supports women writers and celebrates women's writing, is one of Pamela's not-so-guilty pleasures. She is also a Writer Ambassador for Room To Read, a not-for-profit organisation promoting literacy and gender equality in developing countries.
An experienced teacher, Pamela tutors at Writing NSW and the Australian Writers' Centre and loves to mentor emerging authors. When she's not writing or reading, she wastes as much time as possible riding her handsome quarter horse Rio, hanging out with her three adult daughters and menagerie of animals on her dream-come-true rural property in the beautiful Illawarra region of NSW, and dreaming of a road trip in Virginia, her vintage caravan.
Social Media Links
Website: https://pamelacook.com.au/
https://www.writes4women.com/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/PamelaCookAuthor
Instagram: @pamelacookwrites
Twitter: @PamelaCookAU