Rural Suspense Collection
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OUTBACK TREASURE
Wrongly disgraced and her career left in tatters, palaeontologist Darcy Manning embarks on a mission to expose the fossil smuggling syndicate responsible, to clear her name and reputation.
But how will she resist alluring country boy and fellow fossil hunter, Mitch Beaumont, when he is such a crucial piece of the puzzle?
Set on Matilda Station in outback Queensland, Outback Treasure is one woman's story of a search for truth and justice, even at the risk of her own heart.
FOSSICKER'S GULLY
A crime, new love and a stunning family revelation.
Afraid for her life, journalist Amy Randall goes into hiding to uncover the truth behind a shocking crime and struggles to solve the family mystery.
She seeks the help and protection of local policeman, Alex Hammond, her brother's lifelong friend and her own childhood crush.
Set in a small town in the central Victorian goldfields, Fossicker's Gully throws old friends together, brings new love and reveals a heart-warming family secret.
HEARTBREAK COUNTRY
If she broke free could she leave the past behind?
To overcome her tragic past and move on, Bingun school teacher, Tilly Schroder, longs to love again but her yearning lies neglected. Instinct tells her there is more behind the accidents five years ago but how to uncover the truth?
When a stranger returns to the district, change rustles into the small country town. New information comes to light, the catalyst for long hidden revelations.
Can Tilly resist his mysterious appeal to finally break free and leave the past behind?
Set on the wide cereal plains of north western Victoria, HEARTBREAK Country explores grief and secrets in two families but finally brings a sense of hope and new beginnings for the future.
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As a child, I was always creating and scribbling. The first typewriter I used was an old black Remington in an agricultural farming office where my father worked. I typed letters to my mother and took them home.
These days, I still sometimes write my first drafts in longhand on plain old A4 lined notepads, which I then type up and begin the editing process. I always rewrite as I go but am now mostly putting my stories directly into my laptop, although the early planning and plotting process is mostly in notepads and on scraps of paper.
While my husband and I have been fortunate enough to have extensively travelled, I have lived my whole life in the Wimmera wheat belt plains of Victoria, Australia. I have two daughters and five grandchildren.
I live on acreage in a passive solar designed home, surrounded by an Australian native bush garden. When I'm not in my office writing (yes, I have a room to myself with a door - every author's dream), I'm a prolific reader, love travelling, crocheting rugs and playing electronic keyboard.
