A sweeping Australian historical saga that crosses oceans to prove love conquers all…April, 1820. As children, they shared a schoolroom, but no education can remove the stain of being peasant–born. So when Eliza Downing begins to blossom into womanhood and the future Viscount de Havilland notices, his family steps in to intervene.Once full of possibilities, Eliza's life spirals into shame and degradation, culminating finally in a false conviction and transport to Botany Bay...

Wanted: Governess. Properly qualified in English, to instruct male pupil in rural location.Sydney, 1902. Desperate for a job, Kate Courtney travels to the faraway New England Ranges to interview for a governess position. She is greeted by wealthy landowner, ruggedly handsome Tom Fortescue, and is shocked to find that her new charge isn't a small boy–but the grown man.It was Tom's mother's dying wish that he find a refined, elegant, English bride to marry. But a cou...

A sweet story about sustainability, surfing, and searching for what really matters…When Erin Spenser inherits her grandmother's beautiful cliff–top property in rural Luna Bay, she knows she has to sell it immediately to fund her ailing mother's heart transplant. When she briefs her grandmother's lawyer, Hamish Bourke, the passionate LandCare volunteer explodes: her grandmother, a dedicated fellow volunteer, would turn in her grave.But Erin has responsibilities that can't be...

A story of enduring love and remarkable courage in the outback. Early morning was the time Roxy liked most of all. There was a calmness, a stillness about the river, the water stretching away glass-like, bathed in a thin mist. Paddles foamed the surface and with each thrust she imagined herself being drawn closer to the unknown... Roxy: Beautiful, cultured and talented, she forsakes a promising stage career for marriage and station life at Wirra Downs. But life in Adelaide's social classes co...

Occupied Holland 1943. The entire extended Jewish family of brave thirteen-year-old Anna Millstrom is killed by the Germans. Anna escapes the carnage and hides in an old windmill. An RAF Lancaster bomber comes down in Holland. Two members of the crew survive, Australian pilot Jack (Roo) Reilly and American Solomon (Sol) Abrahams. They too, hide in the windmill from the Germans. To save Anna and the badly wounded Roo, Sol creates a diversion and is captured by the Germans and sent to Auschw...

From the author of The Convict's Bounty Bride comes a new Australian historical about a free settler and the wife he chooses from a workhouse...For Irish convict Colleen Malone, being framed, transported to Australia and forced into prostitution seemed like the worst that life could throw at her. Then she fell pregnant to a client and was sent back to prison by her cruel owner. Now, her only hope of a decent life for her and her baby is to find someone to marry.Wid...

When 18-year-old Kitty Carlisle's father dies unexpectedly in Norfolk in 1838, Kitty and her mother are left impoverished. After Kitty is discovered in a compromising position with an unscrupulous adventurer, her reputation is left in shreds. In desperation, her mother banishes Kitty to the colonies in disgrace, under the guardianship of her dour missionary uncle and his long-suffering wife. Against the backdrop of the wild and unruly Bay of Islands in the period leading up to the signing ...

For centuries, fragrant orchids have made potent love potions, but in a world of technology, can they still wield their power?Dianella Lee fights to conserve rare, tiny orchids on Australia's southern coast, one of the most biodiverse wildflower regions in the world. But her world of beauty and love is thrown into harsh relief when her family business is almost destroyed by her own mother.Wade Hamilton has made it big in Silicon Valley, California in 3D computer im...

From the author of Arranged to Love comes a romantic story of forgiveness, secrets, small towns and second chances.Ten years ago, Todd Lansing stood over his father's grave, his heart thumping out curses on Sia Collins for causing his death. When he returns to Oberon and sees Sia again, his heart thumps with a different emotion, one he fights with all the anger he still feels.Sia didn't commit the break–in that ended up killing Mr Lansing, but to admit that would s...

When she uncovers an old diary among her beloved grandmother things, Poppy Abbott feels compelled to learn more about the long-forgotten romance revealed within its pages. Drawn back to her grandmother's home in the country, Poppy begins to question whether what she always thought made her happy truly does. And then love intervenes.Poppy Abbott seems to have it all. Bright, successful and attractive, she lives in a beautiful apartment with sweeping views of Sydney....

Life as a convict in an Australian penal colony was brutal, but James Hunter had the advantages of raw physical strength and courage on his side. He survived, and now he is back; a self–made man of means, determined to take the bride he was promised.Lady Thea Willers knows nothing of the bargain her father made to save her brother, nor does she have any interest in marriage. It might be a radical idea, but what Thea wants is a career.The revelation that her brother's libert...

A sweet, summery, beach–side romance from the author of E for England and The Ripple Effect.Sent to assess a deceased estate in a small coastal town, ambitious city girl Tiffany Holland is initially annoyed by the out–of–the–way assignment. But she soon discovers sleepy Birrigai hides a wealth of surprises: a cross–dressing motel manager, a Kissing College and her client Miles Frobisher, the laid back, surf–shop owning, real life sex fantasy.Tiffany's ambit...