Kate Ballantyne mène une existence paisible dans la petite ville australienne qui l'a vue grandir. Elle travaille à la bibliothèque municipale en s'appliquant à vivre une vie organisée et sans heurts.Jusqu'au jour où l'on annonce le retour de celle qui fut l'amie inséparable de son enfance, avant de devenir le premier amour dévastateur qui l'a trahie et blessée : lorsque reparaît Ashley, le monde protecteur que Kate s'était patiemment bâti vole en éclats."Si vous désirez of...

Si Jo ne parvient pas à se rappeler le début du rêve qui hante ses nuits, elle n'en connaît que trop bien la fin, toujours identique : elle tend désespérément la main vers quelque chose qu'elle ne peut atteindre. Métaphore claire et cruelle d'une vie décevante, car après l'échec de dix ans de mariage, Jo s'est persuadée que l'amour et le bonheur ne sont pas pour elle. Cherchant à fuir l'apathie qui semble la gagner chaque jour un peu plus, elle décide de partir pour un long congé sabbatiqu...

Rachel Weston est bien trop occupée pour réfléchir à sa vie, absorbée par ses deux jeunes enfants et le développement de sa jardinerie.Le jour où elle doit embaucher de l'aide, quelle n'est pas sa surprise de voir resurgir dans son bureau une vieille connaissance, Quinn Farrelly, venue se porter candidate ! Il faut dire que douze ans plus tôt, après une adolescence rebelle, la jeune femme a été impliquée dans un mortel accident de voiture qui lui a valu un long séjour en prison.

A life-threatening incident had changed Mac Donovan’s life. Now restricted to desk duties she was focusing on recovery and returning to her old job. She also knew she had to make the break from a dangerous secret relationship.On the positive side she was seeing more of her friends and realising how much she’d missed them. Her best friend, Dee, didn’t want Mac to move on alone and informed Mac she knew someone who would be just right for her. Mac wanted no such complications.

Gian Crane, youngest of six, the family underachiever, started out with reasonable goals but now, at thirty-two, the sum of her life is an uninspiring job and one major broken heart. If it wasn’t for her best friend, Maddie, she’d have no joy in her life at all.Then a management shuffle elevates Gian to the new boss’ Personal Assistant, a boss who’s reserved, icily attractive, and a little older. Just Gian’s type. No, Gian will not complicate her life by foolishly allowing herself ...

Riley James couldn't have loved her adoptive parents more if she had been their biological daughter. They had never hidden the fact that she was adopted and as she got older so too grew her curiosity about the parents who gave her life.So with the blessing of her mother and father and dire warnings from her friend, Lisa, Riley sets out on a journey of discovery and travels south to Brisbane to find her birth mother. Maggie is thrilled to meet Riley but her husband is overseas on bu...

Jo Creighton's life was in tatters. All she had to show for the last ten years was a failed marriage and trampled self-esteem. She'd been a naive fool who believed in fairy tales and true love.Gathering the last remnants of her resolve Jo decides to make a clean break, get away, find the person she used to be. So she takes leave from work and escapes to the mountains where she's sure the clean, fresh air will clear the negativity, the fuzzy cobwebs from her mind. She would regain h...

Life was all about forks in the road, Kat's best friend, Em, told her. And Kat knew she hadn't chosen wisely when it came to the forks in her road of life. It seemed each road had led to dismal failure. Her family. Her relationships. All failures. Kat didn't know why Em was still there, especially when Kat rarely took Em's advice.However this time Kat had to admit perhaps Em was right. Renovating the old house she'd inherited gave her a project. It would take her mind off her break...

Fliss Devon's life seems ideal. She runs her family's successful art gallery on an island across the bay from tropical Queensland's capital city. To all outward appearances Fliss has it all. Well, almost all. She was finally getting over her broken heart and she was in no hurry to allow herself to be so vulnerable again.Then she learns that, after eight long years, Bailey Macrae is returning to the island. Beautiful, wonderful and now very famous Bailey Macrae, the same Bailey Macr...

Clancy Deveril's life was not messy. She never allowed it to be. She simply moved on. It was what she did and it always worked. So why wasn't she doing that now?Perhaps because this time it wasn't just about her. It involved her family, particularly her much younger sister. And, as Clancy saw it, she knew where to lay the blame. The entitled Hunter family. Specifically, Abigail Hunter. So with revenge in mind Clancy drew closer to Abigail Hunter's flame. But too late, she realised ...

It’s the nineteen sixties. Life was different then. But Tyneholme, the magnificent, historic home of one of Brisbane’s pioneering families, the well-known Chaseleys, endures. Dickie Chaseley, grandson of the first Chaseley to arrive in Australia, is a respected businessman, and his vivacious wife, Vivienne, is a much-loved patron of a large number of charities.Circumstances have drastically changed young Laura Dawson’s comfortable and sheltered life and she gratefully acce...

Kate Ballantyne's life was cruising along very nicely. No highs. No lows. Just the way she liked it. She had a good job and a casual relationship. Then Patsy Maclean had a sixtieth birthday and Kate learned her entire family would be attending the party, including her younger daughter, Ashley.As an orphaned ten-year-old, Kate's young life had been turned upside down when she was sent to live with her aunt in the historic gold mining city of Charters Towers. For the quiet and lonely...