New release: Emergency Response by Nicki Edwards.
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But first - inspiration and a walk through a very country wedding with Nicki.

The inspiration for Eagle’s Ridge Farm, which features in all my books, comes from a farm in the tiny township of Moriac in the rolling hills near Geelong called Raven’s Creek. It is owned and operated by friends of mine, husband and wife team Hayden and Jasmin Findlay and their daughter Pippa.

For as long as he can remember, Hayden has had a passion for farming and working on the land—a bit like my hero Joel O’Connor in Intensive Care. When I pictured Joel starting his own paddock-to-plate enterprise, I gleaned a lot from what Hayden and Jasmin were doing at Raven’s Creek. In eight years they have totally redeveloped their 90 acre family property, converting a humble beef farm into a biodiverse, naturally regenerating environment with a wide variety of stacked enterprises, including my favorite – the berries!

 

 

 

 

 

 

Raspberries and a huge range of brambleberries were planted at Ravens Creek Farm in 2011 and these are available to pick between December and January every year. The date is marked on my calendar, and I plan to make many batches of jam in my thermomix this year.

At Raven’s Creek they also sell their own grass-fed beef and free range pork as well as produce natural honey, free range eggs, seasonal vegetables and cut flowers. These are sold in season in their farmer’s market and café.

My coffee drinking hubby loves the coffee and I’m rather fond of the various biscuits and sweet things cooked up in the kitchen by Jasmin and Hayden’s mums!

“Now join your hands and with your hands your hearts….” Shakespeare

In recent years weddings have become very popular at Raven’s Creek and when you attend one, you’ll know why. When friends Carla and Zach held their wedding in December last year, I knew I had to use Raven’s Creek as the setting for the opening scene in Emergency Response. I love the rustic theme, the outdoor setting, the fairy lights strung around the berries, the clean crisp air. Romance is made from this.

 

These are the doors Mackenzie from Emergency Response waited behind.

How gorgeous is this setting for the ceremony? At Zach and Carla’s wedding, they wrapped sheets of calico around the straw bales.

The guy performing the service for Zach and Carla is none other than my own gorgeous hubby-hero, minister of religion and wedding celebrant extraordinaire!

Wedding selfies - Tim and I, Raven’s Creek, December 2014.

Intensive care nurse Mackenzie Jones is no stranger to running. As a teenager she fled her family home, leaving tragedy and loss in her wake. Now, after fifteen years alone in Sydney, with the strain of working in a city hospital wearing her thin, she’s tempted to run again.

Mackenzie jumps at the chance to work in a mining town in the Western Australian desert – anything to lift her spirits. Though she barely dares to hope, she wonders if she might find the kind of love that can ease her loneliness.

In the outback, Nathan Kennedy is at a loose end. He’s been making money in the mines for years, and pressure from his family to return to the east coast, settle down and get married is reaching fever pitch. The problem is, he hasn’t met the right woman.

When Mackenzie turns up in town, there’s an instant attraction between her and Nathan, maybe even true love. But tragedy’s not done with Mackenzie Jones – the past is about to catch up with her in more ways than one.

Can Nathan convince Mackenzie to stop running, or is this just another tragedy in the making?

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