The Spotlight is on Mandy Magro this week and we’re showcasing
The Wildwood Sisters
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“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.”
Mandy Magro. Stories that take you to the heart and soul of country life.
Author Mandy Magro
I live 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 capital of Australia…yum!
I consider myself to be a country girl through and through, with a passion for wide open spaces, paddocks full of horses and cattle, rodeos, country music, and the fair dinkum Aussie way of life. I’ve also been known to sniff the air madly when a cattle train goes by. I just love the smell of the cattle on board!
The past Renee Wildwood once ran from still haunts her…
Nine years ago, Renee’s twin sister Scarlet went missing. In the threatening aftermath, seventeen-year-old Renee was forced out of her home at Wildwood Acres, leaving her family and her boyfriend behind. Although the case has long gone cold, every day Renee hopes the person responsible will be found. She has since made a new life for herself in the city but when fate intervenes, a family emergency forces her to face up to her fears and her painful memories. But can she go back to Wildwood Acres, the one place her heart yearns to be but where her life may be in grave danger?
Dylan Anderson has never quite got over the loss of his first love, Renee Wildwood, who left him without a word. He’s now a single father trying to make it on his own after the tragic death of his wife, and his cattle property is struggling financially. Against all odds he’s taking steps to get his life back on track, starting with a new job. But how will he feel when he finds Renee, the girl who stole his heart, is back at Wildwood Acres? Will he ever be able to forgive her?
Excerpt from The Wildwood Sisters by Mandy Magro
Nine years ago
Opals Ridge, Far North Queensland
Her laboured breath escaping her in short, painful gasps, the girl staggered through the engulfing darkness, the towering ghost gums she’d found so beautifully mesmerising in the daylight now seeming menacing and foreboding. With the frenzied drumbeat of her heart echoing in her ears, she frantically looked around, trying to decide which way to go, blindly following her first impulse. All around her the inhospitable landscape was eerily silent but for the scurries of night creatures.
Bile rose in her throat as she remembered his animal grunts and groans, relived the horrific sensation of his rough hands upon her, hands that had once been so gentle with their touch. He’d been playing her all along—the true reason for his infatuation now revealed in all its shocking truth. He’d never loved her. What a fool she had been, thinking her secret was going to make things perfect. She never should have told him. She should never have done any of it. The icy breeze ruffled the leaves of the towering native trees surrounding her, prickling her skin and making her shiver to the core. A bush stone-curlew called out from the looming shadows, the bird’s eerie song only heightening her anxiety. She had always hated their sound, usually pulling her doona up and over her head when she heard their nocturnal calls. But tonight she wasn’t tucked up safely in her bed at the homestead. Instead she was out in the dead of night, fighting for her life.
Stumbling over a fallen tree branch, she collapsed to the ground, the impact stealing the air from her lungs. She rolled onto her side, screaming silently, horrified by the knowledge that he was somewhere behind her, searching her out in the dark. It was at this very moment she begged God for her life.
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She couldn’t let her past steal her future any longer…
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