‘Warm-hearted and authentic...this debut will take you to the heart of the outback’ — bestselling Australian author Alissa CallenIt’s hard to hide love in the outback...Hallie Harris has gone as far away as possible to escape the city and the humiliating revelations of her last relationship. Love is the last thing on her mind when she arrives at Karilga, a remote cattle station in outback Queensland, to take on the post of teacher to eight lively c...

To move forward, she'll have to face the past.Paige Bennett is fulfilling her childhood dream of working and living on the land as a station hand on Whitetail Ridge. Getting her hands dirty, riding horses, working with cattle and kicking up red dust. Life can't get much better. Or so she thinks, until a devastating act of violent betrayal leaves her unemployed, homeless and broken.A fight with his father drove Jackson Brady off Karilga, his family's cattle station in the Qu...

Will the dangerous consequences of her past allow her to risk her heart again?Georgia Williams knows firsthand how love can turn violent. Running from her past, stalked by daily phone calls she refuses to answer, she arrives in the small country town of Gleneagle looking for a place to hide. And even though the local men - admittedly one rather attractive guy in particular - try to catch her attention, the last thing she needs is another man making her life a living hell.

A gritty, flirty and uplifting rural romance about taking risks, overcoming the past and standing up for the people you love.Relationships on the station are forbidden ... but are some rules made to be broken?At Windale Mountain Sheep Station there's only one rule: don't sleep with the guests.In her ten years living on the mountain, Indigo Mills has never once thought about breaking the rules. After a childhood of neglect and an adolescence...

Will the dangerous consequences of her past allow her to risk her heart again?Georgia Williams knows firsthand how love can turn violent. Running from her past, stalked by daily phone calls she refuses to answer, she arrives in the small country town of Gleneagle looking for a place to hide. And even though the local men - admittedly one rather attractive guy in particular - try to catch her attention, the last thing she needs is another man making her life a living hell.Co...

To move forward, she'll have to face the past.Paige Bennett is fulfilling her childhood dream of working and living on the land as a station hand on Whitetail Ridge. Getting her hands dirty, riding horses, working with cattle and kicking up red dust. Life can't get much better. Or so she thinks, until a devastating act of violent betrayal leaves her unemployed, homeless and broken.A fight with his father drove Jackson Brady off Karilga, his family's cattle station in the Qu...

A gritty, flirty and uplifting rural romance about taking risks, overcoming the past and standing up for the people you love.Relationships on the station are forbidden ... but are some rules made to be broken?At Windale Mountain Sheep Station there's only one rule: don't sleep with the guests.In her ten years living on the mountain, Indigo Mills has never once thought about breaking the rules. After a childhood of neglect and an adolescence that still haunts her, th...

A collection of Christmas stories from award-winning Australian authors about the country practices that lie at the heart of small towns.The Christmas Cake War by Stella QuinnPhysiotherapist Jodie is in Clarence to help her great-aunt Carol move into an aged care home. But Jodie didn't count on Carol's dispute with the president of Clarence Gardens' residents' association. Jodie will have to team up with local publican Will, the bo...

A collection of Christmas stories from award-winning Australian authors about the country practices that lie at the heart of small towns.The Christmas Cake War by Stella QuinnPhysiotherapist Jodie is in Clarence to help her great-aunt Carol move into an aged care home. But Jodie didn't count on Carol's dispute with the president of Clarence Gardens' residents' association. Jodie will have to team up with local publican Will, the bo...

In Suite Seven aboard a drifting station at the edge of known space, professional companion Mara has seen it all — eleven species across four systems. Nothing surprises her anymore. Then she meets Seven. Vast, violet, and impossibly gentle, the creature fills her suite with warm tendrils and a voice that arrives behind her eyes rather than through her ears. It has studied her physiology with great care. It pours her a drink with surprising delicacy. And when the session begins, it takes he...

A mighty empire…a lowly slave…a galaxy to save. Will a hero rise?Nova chronicles the early years of the Aurora Galaxy after the great war between two immortal races known as the Malakians and the Torians. The despot, Zari Treville, is leading the Torians on a campaign to rule the galaxy, but Supreme Chancellor Ell Yon, leader of the Malakians, stands in his way. Both races have technology that mankind can’t begin to understand or even imagine.Young Daeson Lockbridge, a Sta...

When the 236-metre long container ship Rena ploughed into and was impaled upon the Astrolabe Reef off Tauranga at 2.20am on 5 October 2011, it began one of the biggest salvage operations and environmental disasters in New Zealand history. The Rena was carrying 1368 containers, 1700 tonnes of heavy fuel oil and 200 tonnes of marine diesel, all of which threatened to enter the sea. Salvors worked round the clock to stem the black tide and thousands of New Zealanders volunteered to clean up b...