Welcome back to our Showcase Series. We hope you’ll join us for the run, find a new author, or a new kind of rural romance or rural story with romantic elements to love and enjoy.
Today, it’s From War Torn Countries Back to the Land
Burnt by Karly Lane
Karly Lane writes women’s fiction, everything from romantic suspense to family sagas and life in rural Australia. She fits in her writing around her chooks, dog, various adopted farm animals, school pickup and children.
Karly happily lives in the same small town where her parents, grandparents and great grandparents all lived. She has a strong love of rural towns and the communities created in them.
Back cover blurb for Burnt by Karly Lane
He came home to heal. She came home to start over. Can first love reignite without one of them getting burnt?
Sebastian Taylor and Rebecca Whiteman were country town high school sweethearts dreaming of a future together when an accident one night forever changed their destiny…
Eighteen years after the tragedy, newly divorced Rebecca returns to the small town she left behind, to start a new life. Seb, now an elite SAS soldier in the Australian Army, arrives home to his farm, injured and grieving, to face a town that hasn’t forgotten and a father who has never understood him.
Rebecca has enough problems of her own without adding Seb Taylor to the mix: a failed marriage, two children to support and a persistent mysterious caller. The last thing she needs is her first love making a sudden reappearance in her life. Seb doesn’t want to get mixed up in Rebecca’s life. He came home to heal his wounds, both old and new, but can he do it without getting burnt?
Burnt is available in eBook and paperback from good retailers including:
Harlequin Books
Booktopia
Amazon Australia
Find our more about Karly and her books on her website KarlyLane.com
Common Ground by Cheryl Adnams
Home for Cheryl Adnams is Adelaide, South Australia, where she has a deep love and pride for the Fleurieu Peninsula and Adelaide Hills regions – particularly the beauty of the beaches and wine region of McLaren Vale.
When she’s not writing, Cheryl is avidly reading as many books as she can fit in around her busy full-time job as a training facilitator.
Back cover blurb for Common Ground by Cheryl Adnams
Only love can begin to heal the deepest of battle scars.
Rachel Raymond has always loved her job – she’s a strong, independent foreign correspondent and has built up an illustrious career chasing stories across the world. But her life suddenly changes for ever when at the end of a tour based in war-torn Afghanistan, the vehicle she and her team are travelling in hits a roadside bomb.
Liliana Howell is over the moon when her long lost best friend returns unexpectedly the week before Lily’s wedding in the South Australia Riverland. But it doesn’t take her long to realise that something is different about Rachel, even though her old friend refuses to talk about why she’s finally come home.
Fireman Tate Cassidy has also made the trip to the Riverlands for the wedding and finds himself instantly drawn to the mysterious journalist. Tate has his own demons to fight, but when he finds himself falling for this woman who’s seen too much, can he use their Common Ground to help her through her darkest time? And will Rachel let him close enough to show her that love can heal all wounds?
Common Ground is available in eBook format from good eRetailers including:
Booktopia
Amazon Australia
iBooks Australia
Find out more about Cheryl and her books on her website CherylAdnams.com
Country at Heart by Mandy Magro
Mandy Magro lives in the picturesque country town of Grenfell, which is situated in Central West New South Wales. Grenfell’s heritage is rich in gold, bushrangers and poetry and is right next door to Young, the cherry capitol of Australia…yum!
“It’s my dream that through my writing I’m able to give readers a taste of the beautiful Australian countryside, from the dust on your face, the smell of horses and cattle, unforgettable Aussie characters, and to the country sun on your skin.”
Back cover blurb for Country at Heart by Mandy Magro
The Army and his dearly beloved explosive detection dog Indy are Dean’s life – he can’t imagine doing anything else. Although physically and emotionally tested by the death of his mother in a recent accident, and by his father’s wish to have him home, he is still determined to fulfil his lifelong dream of protecting the country he loves. But life has other plans for Dean when he and Indy are wounded in action in Afghanistan and sent home to heal.
Free-spirited Summer has never wanted for anything, with her successful father aiming high for her future at any cost. Much to her father’s dismay, instead of pursuing the career he’s planned for her she intends to open her own yoga school and meditation centre. But she has agreed to spend one last summer with her parents, at their luxurious beachfront holiday home.
It’s here that life takes an unexpected turn when Summer and Dean meet, and discover that love at first sight truly exists. But can they overcome the very real challenges of coming from very different sides of the tracks? And when Summer has to face the unpleasant truth about an old friend, as well as come to terms with the after-effects of a bewildering assault, she has to make a heartbreaking decision about their relationship.
But Dean refuses to let go of Summer, fighting with everything he has to win her back. With a little help from his wounded war dog, he finally proves to Summer that she should give him a second chance.
Country at Heart is available in eBook and paperback from good retailers including:
Harlequin Books
Booktopia
Amazon Australia
Find out more about Mandy and her books on her webpage MandyMagro.com
Coming next: Secrets and a Touch of Mystery (part II)
with authors Fiona Palmer and Pamela Cook.