Welcome back to our Showcase Series.
Today it’s Secrets and a Touch of Mystery (part III)
with Deborah O’Brien and Kerry McGinnis.

 

A Place of Her Own by Deborah O’Brien

Deborah O’Brien is an Australian writer, visual artist and teacher.

For as long as she can remember, Deborah has been fascinated by words. When she turned eight, her mother gave her twenty cents’ pocket money, expecting her to spend it on lollies. Instead, she saved up the weekly windfall until she could afford a ‘Pocket Oxford Dictionary’. At home she wrote and illustrated little magazines to entertain her family. At school she filled the back pages of her exercise books with romantic stories and drawings of the heroines. Her first published work was a very short story which appeared in the ‘Sun Herald Juniors’ section of the Sunday newspaper. After that, she became a regular contributor until she was too old to be a ‘Junior’ anymore.

These days, Deborah, her husband and son divide their time between Sydney and a country cottage on the banks of a spring-fed creek frequented by platypus. There she writes at an old mahogany desk, sketches in pen and ink, tends her lavender garden and dreams of owning a small herd of alpacas.

 

A Place of Her Own is the third book in the Emporium trilogy about pioneering women in the Gold Rush town of Millbrooke. Book #1 is Mr Chen’s Emporium, Book #2 is The Jade Widow. All books can be read as stand-alone stories though.

Back cover blurb for A Place of Her Own by Deborah O’Brien

A compelling novel of starting over from the author of Mr Chen’s Emporium. Eighteen months ago Angie Wallace thought her world had ended. Now she’s fighting off suitors – and facing a crisis she never saw coming . . .

Unrequited love hurts like hell, whether you’re fifteen or fifty.

Following the death of her beloved husband Phil, Angie has made a new life for herself in the enchanting gold rush town of Millbrooke. The proud proprietor of the Old Manse B&B and a fierce protector of local history, her transition from ‘blow-in’ to bona fide Millbrooker is complete.

She’s even fallen for the erudite but scruffy Richard Scott, owner of Millerbrooke House.

But just as the relationship between Angie and Richard seems to be blossoming, a woman from his past arrives back in town – and turns their world upside down.

Because Diana Goodmann isn’t all she seems, and when Angie vows to unearth the truth about her rival she finds herself a long way from home – and in very grave danger.

 

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Tracking North by Kerry McGinnis

Kerry McGinnis is a writer of rural fiction and memoirs of her own rural upbringing.

Kerry was born in Adelaide and at the age of twelve took up a life of droving with her father and four siblings. The family travelled extensively across the Northern Territory and Queensland before settling on a station in the Gulf Country. Kerry has worked as a shepherd, droving hand, gardener and stock-camp and station cook on the family property Bowthorn, north-west of Mt Isa. Kerry now lives in Bundaberg.

The back cover blurb for Tracking North by Kerry McGinnis

Tracking North is a beautiful family story about life in the stunning Gulf Country, one of the world’s most unique and fascinating places.

In a place this remote, anything can happen.

Kelly Roberts finds refuge in the rugged and remote cattle country of northern Australia, but when tragedy strikes she is forced to find a new life for herself and her children outside of Rainsford Station.

She retreats to the family’s only asset – a freehold block of land owned jointly by her eccentric father-in-law, Quinn. In the valley at Evergreen Springs, Quinn hopes the fractured family might all come together to start over again.

Life in Queensland’s far north is wildly unpredictable, with daily challenges and the wet season, in all its wild majesty, to survive. But when twelve-year-old Rob makes the gruesome discovery of a dead body in the valley, real peril comes far too close to home.

 

Tracking North is available in eBook and paperback from good retailers.
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Discover more of Kerry McGinnis’s books including her memoirs at Penguin Australia

Coming next on Showcase, Now and Then - Rural Historical & Dual Timeline (part I)
with authors Tricia Stringer, Tea Cooper and Kaye Dobbie

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