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Justin Devereux’s girlfriend has dumped him. Worse still, she has swindled him out of millions of dollars. He befriends Holly Kirwan whose soldier husband has been killed in Iraq. Holly flees to Australia to keep her baby out of the clutches of her ruthless in-laws.
When Holly finally moves into Justin’s apartment she is racked with guilt. How can she fall in love with another man when her husband is barely cold in his grave? Justin in the meantime, is fighting a desperate battle of his own for emotional survival. He thought safe, commitment free sex was all he ever wanted, but after he has driven Holly away, he realises he can’t live without her.
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Set in Australia during the 1960’s
One bloody night Bryce Harrington thought savagely, and this happens.
He had committed the cardinal sin of getting his secretary pregnant, and now he had to pay the price – offer marriage.
Caroline Dennison had committed the cardinal sin of falling in love with her boss.
While her brother risks his life in the jungles of Vietnam, and her friend, a draft dodger, is on the run from the authorities and needs her help, Caroline has another desperate battle on her hands. How to win Bryce’s love.
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Beautiful and beguiling Allison Waverley has grown up helping her brother Jim run their farm, helped by their good friend Tommy Calvert, while their father occupies himself as the town drunk. When their little Australian community is visited by English aristocrat Phillip Ashfield and the boys go off to join the army because war has broken out in Europe, the life Allison expected to live is turned upside down. The "wild oats" sown by Phillip ruin lives and cause repercussions that reverberate well into the next generation, while Allison finds help and a lasting love from an unexpected source.
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Only in the new world can a highborn young Englishwoman and a tough frontier man, ignite the passion that will fulfil their hopes and dreams in ways they never imagined possible.
Tommy Lindsay arrives in colonial Australia to claim the rundown farm she and her brothers have inherited.
Hidden behind her fragile English rose beauty, beats the heart of a courageous young woman. She will need all this strength to survive the unforgiving heat, and the dangers lurking around every corner. Lost in the bush, capture by a feral mountain family, raging bushfires are nothing, compared to the danger she faces if she gives her heart to Adam Munro.
Adam Munro, a rugged frontier man, has no room in his heart to love a woman. All he ever wanted was a presentable wife who would provide him with heirs. He didn’t need passion in his life, not until he met the beautiful English rose living next door to him.
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Set in Australia in the 1830’s
On board a convict ship taking them to the penal colony of Australia, Maryanne Watson and Jake Smith meet and fall in love, but Jake hides a terrible secret that will take him to the gallows if it ever comes out.
On arrival in Sydney the lovers are separated.
Maryanne is sent to work for the lecherous Captain Fitzhugh. After he attacks her she flees into the wilderness and eventually meets up with Jake who has escaped from a chain gang.
They set up home in a hidden valley and Maryanne falls pregnant. Will Jake come out of hiding to protect his fledgling family?
And how can love triumph over such crushing odds?
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Set in Australia during the 1850s
Sequel to Savage Utopia
Georgina, a wild colonial girl is, brought up by O’Rourke, a rough and ready Irishman, who she believes is her uncle.
While helping the bushranger, Johnny Dawson, escape from prison she meets and falls in love with a dashing young English aristocrat, Marcus Lindquist.
When Johnny Dawson is ambushed and killed, Marcus finally learns the secret of what has bound him to Georgina. Johnny is her brother, not her lover as he had jealously supposed, but even darker secrets from the past overshadow their love.
How can an English nobleman marry the daughter of convicts?
Meanwhile, twelve thousand miles across the sea, Marcus’ Godfather, is plotting Georgina’s death, to keep his dark secrets from ever seeing the light of day.
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Set during the 1st World War
Lauren (Laurie) Cunningham’s dreams are cruelly shattered when Danny, her childhood sweetheart, is killed in action.
Captain Blair Sinclair, a wealthy station owner, is engaged to the beautiful socialite Helen, who deserts him when he goes off to fight. He returns from battle blinded and with amnesia and mistakenly believes that Laurie is his fiancée. She gradually falls in love with Blair, but on the eve of their wedding Helen turns up. Blair regains his memory, and Laurie is banished for being an imposter.
Dick McKinlay is a shell-shocked veteran whose life has been shattered by the war. Laurie accepts a desperate proposition from Dick. He is prepared to marry her to save her from the disgrace of having Blair’s baby out of wedlock, but also to keep his own shameful secret from ever seeing the light of day. He is impotent because of a homosexual attack.
Helen, who marries Blair, is found raped and murdered. After a massive manhunt, Dick is arrested and put on trial. Laurie must choose between letting him be found guilty of rape and murder, when she knows him to be innocent or publicly confessing both their secrets.
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In 1938, a wealthy Englishman, Paul Ashfield travels to Australia in search of the birth-mother he thinks deserted him. He meets and falls in love with Daphne Clarke. Upon meeting her parents, Paul is horrified by the possibility that they have the same mother. He departs the scene quickly, believing he has slept with his sister.
Amidst the turmoil of WW2, Paul and Daphne meet again in Singapore, where they discover the truth – they are not siblings. They marry as the Japanese pour into Malaya and Singapore teeters on the brink of invasion. In the chaotic aftermath, each believes the other has died during the bombing. Heartbroken, Paul returns home to England and agrees to an arranged marriage.
After a daring escape from Singapore, Daphne finally reaches England, only to find out that Paul is about to wed another woman.
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Top Ten Finisher in Preditors and Editors poll, see here.
Jordan Stamford is allergic to babies. At the height of the Vietnam war, this jet-setting playboy, whose motto is ‘money can buy anything,’ arrives in Sarah Watson’s seaside home to redevelop a disused factory complex. Sarah is the only child of an elderly minister of religion and adores her bay side home. She yearns for a loving husband and babies. Will Jordan’s shameful family history, and Sarah’s desperate longing for a child, be an insurmountable barrier for them to overcome?
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