A tender later-in-life romance about love after loss, healing, and new beginnings.A quiet holiday meant for rest and reflection becomes the start of an unexpected second chance. Gentle, emotional, and quietly uplifting, The Locket is a story for readers who enjoy mature romance, holiday romance, and heartfelt women's fiction.Is it ever too late for love to find its way back into a life?

Three gardeners. Two embankments. One very particular garden lover.When another "accident" strikes in one of Elsbeth's prize‑winning gardens, most call it bad luck. Mavis of Wren Cottage calls it a pattern.Over tea and scones, she pieces together a history of pruning mistakes, wounded pride, and unstable ground — uncovering a truth that is more tragic than malicious.A warm, witty cozy mystery about camellias, secrets, and the danger of caring too much.

On the night of the winter solstice dinner, Helen lights a beeswax candle she has been saving for years.It was meant for a particular occasion — a reconciliation that never happened, a conversation postponed until it was too late.In a house layered with camellias and quiet history, the steady honeyed flame draws old tensions gently to the surface — not in argument, but in the careful pauses between sentences.Outside, the mountain ash stands indifferent. Inside, the ...

When plants begin to die in the small hillside community outside Belbrook, suspicion spreads faster than rainwater.The strawberry farm faces ruin.
The nursery fights to save its camellias. Experts search for answers and find none.Mavis Tully has lived long enough to know that what was left behind does not always stay buried. When her daughter suggests turning an old copper preserves pan into a planter, Mavis refuses.Some things were made to hold.As the valley ed...

6-Book Romance BundleAuthor Gita AppleyardLipstick & Love:With a perfect blend of humor, romance, and heart, this enchanting novel will leave you smiling long after the final page.Love Unplugged:Dive into a heartwarming romantic comedy and discover that love can flourish in the most unexpected places.Dating Disasters:Dating Disasters" follows a jaded matc...

What if later life isn't a winding down — but a second ignition?The Horses' Birthday is an illustrated short story for readers who understand the pleasure of anticipation, the power of small rebellions, and the thrill of beginning again.Set in Wren Cottage in the Dandenong Ranges, this is fiction for women who have lived — and have no intention of fading politely.Expect luminous watercolour artwork, dry wit, emotional precision, and the quiet satisfaction o...

To Kill for a Ghost… and a ghost may be heard if you pass by that billabong — some say she still waits — keeping company with the children no one else sees.In the still heat of inland Australia, violence does not begin with a single act. It grows slowly — in silence, in neglect, in the quiet ambitions of families who believe land and blood are the same thing.Monsters are not born.They are shaped.Across three generations, revenge ripen...

Kakadu ReunionAs Gudjewg's fierce winds announce the coming of the wet, Kakadu braces for monsoon. Floodwaters rise, thunderheads gather, and the land remembers what must endure.So do they.Jarrah has spent years protecting Country as a ranger — reading the sky, tracking the water, trusting instincts passed down through generations. But he failed to read the most important signs of all: the quiet breaking of Emily's heart.Now...

A full-colour illustrated personal travel account by Gray Nomad of a tour from Atherton to the Coast, traveling with our dog, but leaving our caravan at the Far North Queensland caravan park for this day trip. .The transformation from the tropical lowlands to this cool highland sanctuary felt almost magical, as if we had crossed through an invisible portal separating two entirely different worlds. The very air seemed to whisper of possibilities, of stories waiting t...

HOPEThe Blackburn Open Air SchoolA WEAKLING'S JOURNEYThis short-story of the life-changing experience of HOPE that was gifted to a child, in 1953.In this short story, you will meet the real-life girl who inspired the fictional character Emily in The Stolen Years novels by Ryn Shell

Skylab—Last Days of the Space Age—set against the backdrop of rural Australia. A family's bonds are tested. Rose, a strong and determined heroine, navigates a tumultuous path through the aftermath of Skylab's crash.1979 NASA's Skylab space station Skylab came plummeting back to Earth above Esperance, WA. A fiery apparition and a loud series of sonic booms followed. The event sparked this story Australian story of second chance love by Ryn Shell, an author who experienced the early ...

Orphaned on the Victorian goldfields and robbed of her parents by greed, Jane Mutta refuses to become another victim of fortune and fate.Armed with her dentistry skills, fierce ambition, and a Queen's sovereign pressed into her palm, Jane sets out to claim a future in the Australian colonies. But gold attracts more than opportunity. Bushrangers haunt the roads. Police patrol the tracks. And Jane rides hard across hostile country with stolen gold hidden beneath a black Chantilly lac...