Welcome back to our Showcase Series. We hope you’ll find a new author, a new book or a new kind of rural romance or rural story with romantic elements to love and enjoy.
Today, it’s Secrets and a Touch of Mystery (part II)
Close to Home by Pamela Cook
Pamela Cook is a city girl with a country lifestyle and too many horses. Her rural fiction novels feature feisty women, tangled family relationships and a healthy dose of romance.
Pamela is proud to be a Writer Ambassador for Room To Read (link below), a not-for-profit organisation that promotes literacy and gender equality in developing countries. She teaches creative writing through her business Justwrite Publishing (link below) and divides her time between her home in the southern suburbs of Sydney and her ‘other’ home on the south coast of NSW. When she’s not writing she wastes as much time as possible riding her handsome quarter horse, Morocco.
Back cover blurb for Close to Home by Pamela Cook
Orphaned at 13 Charlie Anderson has been on her own for over half her life. Not that she minds – she has her work as a vet and most days that’s enough. Most days. But when she’s sent to a small town on the New South Wales south coast to investigate a possible outbreak of the deadly hendra virus, Charlie finds herself torn between the haunting memories of her past, her dedication to her job and her attraction to a handsome local.
Travelling to Naringup means coming face to face with what is left of her dysfunctional family – her cousin Emma, who begged Charlie not to leave all those years ago, and her aunt Hazel, who let he go without a backwards glance. But it also means relying on the kindness of strangers, and when she meets local park ranger Joel Drummond, opening her heart to the possibility of something more …
As tensions in the country town rise, can Charlie reconcile the past and find herself a new future in a town she left so long ago?
Close to Home is available in eBook and paperback from good retailers including:
Booktopia
Amazon Australia
iBooks Australia
Find out more about Pamela and her books on her webpage PamelaCook.com.au
The Sunnyvale Girls by Fiona Palmer
Fiona Palmer lives in the tiny rural town of Pingaring in Western Australia, three and a half hours south-east of Perth. She discovered Danielle Steel at the age of eleven, and has now written her own brand of rural romance.
Fiona received an Australian Society of Authors mentorship for her first novel, The Family Farm. She has extensive farming experience, does the local mail run, and was a speedway-racing driver for seven years. She spends her days writing, helping out in the community and looking after her two children.
Back cover blurb for The Sunnyvale Girls by Fiona Palmer
Widowed matriarch Maggie remembers a time when the Italian prisoners of war came to work on their land, changing her heart and her home forever. Single mum Toni has been tied to the place for as long as she can recall, although farming was never her dream. And Flick is as passionate about the farm as a young girl could be, despite the limited opportunities for love.
When a letter from 1946 is unearthed in an old cottage on the property, the Sunnyvale girls find themselves on a journey deep into their own hearts and all the way across the world to Italy. Their quest to solve a mystery leads to incredible discoveries about each other, and about themselves.
The Sunnyvale Girls is available in eBook and paperback from good retailers including:
Penguin Books
Booktopia
Amazon Australia
Links from Pamela Cook:
Room to Read
JustWrite Publishing
Next week our rural fiction Showcase Series will focus on
Healing, Hope and Love of the Land
with authors Jennifer Scoullar and Cathryn Hein
plus A Touch of Rural Romantic Comedy
with authors Margareta Osborn, Jennie Jones and Loretta Hill.