'This book will have you nodding, laughing and crying' — Sally Hepworth, New York Times bestselling author of Darling Girls**One year. Twelve tests. A lifetime of secrets.How far would you go to save your marriage when it feels like you’re living with a stranger?**Lou and Josh have the house, the kids, and a thousand shared memories. But Lou is drowning under the invisible weight of a marriage on autopilot.After a disastrou...

Nature has another evolution in store for usI think about how the earth likes to cough things up. Bones, fossils, slivers of rock, like an interior self. How it likes to spew gas, lava, smoke. How the earth under our feet is anything but solid. How in fact, the surface itself is constantly in movement, teeming. And inside, inside, in the mantle, we can only guess.Ursula is a self-possessed geologist. In her life on the mainland, she’s a guardian of the timescale, dividing h...

Understanding relationships isn’t just about other people — it starts with understanding yourself and where you’ve come from.In How We Relate, clinical and forensic psychologist Dr Ahona Guha takes us on an illuminating journey through the psychology of human connection. Drawing from her many years of clinical experience, she reveals how our earliest relationships shape every connection we form — from family and friendships to romance and work.How do childhood blueprints in...

Thrust into a foreign environment as the cook's hand with a shearing team, after her father passes away, Maysa must fight for survival. She finds herself both loving and being terrified by all the Australian outback has to offer, the country, the wildlife, but mostly the people. She meets the love of her life, but she must fight against an undercurrent of evil just to survive, let alone live happily ever after.Tom's a young jackeroo and heir to a large station. His first love was my...

A wife burning with resentment. A husband hiding the past. Their teenage daughter crusading for the truth. What if your search for the truth puts your family at risk?The close-knit community of Kinton Bay is shocked when fifteen-year-old Siena Britton makes a grisly discovery in the national park. She believes it’s a skull from the town’s violent colonial past and posts a video which hits the news headlines.Her parents, Meri and Rollo, aren’t so sure. In 1998, their classmat...

The gifts were innocent… at first. After a traumatic assault, Hannah Novak returns to her home-town hoping for a fresh start. However, when strange gifts turn up on her doorstep, and a stalker fixates on her, she discovers that Blackbridge isn’t the safe haven it once was. With no family left to turn to, she’s forced to seek help from the broody new cop in town. Ryan Kilpatrick has travelled across the country to create a stable home for his young son, but being a police officer makes that...

From the bestselling author of Australian outback romance. Over 12 million books sold worldwide.Carey is immediately attracted to the handsome yet reserved cattle station owner. But Oliver seems more interested in a practical business arrangement than a true love match.Oliver's bossy sister, Millicent, doesn't help matters. She soon makes it clear that the young new bride doesn't match up to her expectations.Glamorous Jane Newbold adds to Carey's insecurities. Jane ...

"Utterly joyous and charming." BROOKE DAVIS‘Abundant wit, a keen instinct for the perfect detail and a whole lot of heart.’ – Nick Earls‘I adored Evie Shine and this warm, funny novel, filled with nuggets of wisdom about that most fascinating of landscapes: other people’s relationships.’ – Kerri SackvilleEvie Shine is adrift. After two decades of marriage, her husband has left her. Possibly for another woman. He isn’t saying. That Evie has spent her career dissectin...

With sparks like these, someone's bound to get burnt...Mai On is devastated when her landlord sells her building to a property developer and the bakery she’s worked so hard to build is threatened. The last thing she needs is an outsider tearing down everything that matters to her. She’s determined not to be swayed by the sexy, charming developer.After costing his company millions of dollars, Nicholas Shadbolt is desperate to prove himself. Taking on the re-development of a rundown building...

A heart-warming rural romance from the best-selling author of The Wattle Seed Inn.Sometimes, home isn't a place: it's a feeling.Lucie Tamberlani had it all: a business manager with a passion for naturopathy, she was set to take over the bookwork at the family strawberry farm in South Australia. But the unexpected fallout from a relationship sees her flee to Melbourne, raising her daughter alone.Summoned back to the farm after her father's death, Lucie must find a way t...

The owner of Settlers Bridge cafe, Ploughs & Pies, Samantha is short on confidence and big on regrets.Marrying young to fill the void left by an unhappy childhood, she still works in the same small town where she grew up, too filled with self-doubt and insecurity to ever risk spreading her wings. But, with the end of her abusive marriage, will she be forced to surrender everything that forms the foundations so important to her?Urbane city restauranteur, Pierce DeAngelis, kn...

Bush nurse Lara McIntyre and rural journalist Toby Paxton are thrust into the limelight when an accident puts the beating heart of their community in jeopardy. The small country town of Bridgefield can’t manage without their general store and post office, but Lara can’t stomach the idea of out-of-town buyers revamping it with no regard for what the residents want or need. She’s also unsure where Toby’s allegiances lie in this fight. Loyalties are put to the test as the locals attempt to sa...