Téa Cooper always knew one day she would write a novel. It probably started with a rather risqué story in the back of an exercise book at boarding school featuring the long suffering school gardener - not really the stuff romantic heroes were made of but it was before she knew any better.

Life and few heroes of her own showed her the error of her ways and with a baby under one arm, a husband and a half built house she entered a Mills and Boon competition. To her absolute earth shattering amazement she won second place – the prize was a bottle of perfume! Next time she determined she would do better.

Writing remained the stuff of fantasy. Her family, a herd of alpacas, a protea farm and teaching intervened until one day she decided it was time to do or die. No more procrastination. The characters and plots that had lived in her head for so long were clamoring to escape.

 

 

 

Téa Cooper. Australian romance. From the ocean to the outback.

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Two people one dream … with the past riding hard on their heels.

When India Kilhampton is caught up in the heart-stopping excitement of the first Melbourne Cup her mind is made up. She will breed a horse to win the coveted trophy and reunite her fractured family. Determined to make her dream a reality she advertises for a horse breeder.

Jim Mawgan arrives at Helligen Stud in the Hunter Valley to take up the position. He has a mission: he must fulfil his father’s dying wish to right past wrongs and prove his ownership of the prized stallion Jefferson.

Jim and India discover they share a common goal but as the secrets of the past unravel old emanates surface. Will India save Jim before he is branded a horse thief and sentenced to death?

 

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MORE RURAL FICTION BY TEA COOPER

Another heart warming Australian rural romance from the author of Back to Blue Gum Flat and The Journey Home.

Ella Milson is up for a change and so she accepts the role of principal in the small one teacher school in Blue Gum Flat. She expects to face some challenges, it’s a far cry from her inner city life, but she’s wrong. Most people are very welcoming, especially her devastatingly attractive landlord Clayton Richards.

Clayton is counting the hours until his contract in the mines finishes and he can plough his hard earned cash into the property he inherited from his Pop. It’s a dream he’s had since he was a kid and he doesn’t intend to fail.

But Clayton’s not the only person with memories of the house on the other side of Tom Cat Creek

 

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Another heart-warming Australian rural romance from the author of The Journey Home and Tree Change.

When the corporate rug is pulled from under her Maddison Markham heads back home – back to Blue Gum Flat. It won’t be for long, just time to regroup and get her life back on track.
But Blue Gum Flat is not the sleepy little town she remembers from her childhood. New people, new attitudes and even a coffee machine.

Cameron Dean has every intention of making his dream of a rural life a reality and when Maddison arrives in town it seems his stars have finally aligned. But he hasn’t considered the impact their relationship will have on his son and after the mistakes he has made family comes first.

 

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(Previously published as The Protea Boys.)

Emotional entanglement is not on Georgie Martin’s to do list. She has turned her back on her sophisticated Sydney lifestyle and the man that went with it, determined to renovate her parents’ old flower farm and her shattered ego.

The challenge proves more than she bargained for until a madcap scheme comes to fruition and she employs a team of efficient, well-tapered ‘boys’ to help solve her problems.

The threat of being co-opted as a wine waiter or worse, chef in his brother’s restaurant in Blue Gum Flat encourages Tom Morgan to take up what he sees as the highly amusing challenge of managing Georgie’s boys. It is the perfect distraction while he waits for a new assignment - until he realizes he has found the one woman he can’t run away from.

 

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From Escape Publishing’s queen of historical Australian romance comes a new story about a privileged member of Australia’s colonial squattocracy, a bushranger, and a very special horse.

Born into the rough, but still privileged society of the Australian colonial landowners, Lilibeth Dungarven finds herself married, widowed, and, much to her distress, back under her father’s thumb, all before her twenty-first birthday. Determined not to forgo her dream of breeding the perfect racehorse, Lilibeth ignores propriety and sets out to restore the family’s flagging fortunes.

When Captain Tom and his mismatched band of bushrangers stumble across a mob of the best horses they’ve ever seen, and the daughter of the famed Dungarven horse stud, they know their fortunes have changed. Their catch is worth a king’s ransom. All they have to do is hold the daughter for seven days. How hard will controlling a pampered farmer’s daughter be?

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An unconventional woman clashes with colonial society in this spicy and sweet Australian-set historical romance.

His carefree bachelor days over, Christopher Matcham returns to Sydney to take responsibility for his mother, two stepsisters, and the family property. Fortune smiles on him when he is introduced to Matilda Sweet, a woman in need of work. Though unusual, Christopher senses that her fresh ideals and positive outlook can only benefit his sisters, so he hires her as a companion.

By the time they arrive at Christopher’s family home, the two are fast friends. But Matilda’s unorthodox ways and her convict heritage make her a second class citizen to the family. Christopher has responsibilities, and they include an advantageous match. A breeches-wearing, fish-pond-swimming, plain-talking convict’s daughter will never figure in. After all, romance is a luxury the upper classes cannot afford…

 

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Tea also writes other historical and contemporary romances. Find out more on her webpage.

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