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We’re welcoming back Alissa Callen to Australian Rural Romance authors’ website.

Many of you will know Alissa and will have read her rural romances, but did you know there’s a new book on the way?

When Alissa Callen isn’t writing she plays traffic controller to four children, three dogs, two horses and one renegade cow who really does believe the grass is greener on the other side of the fence. After a childhood spent chasing sheep on the family farm, Alissa has always been drawn to remote areas and small towns, even when residing overseas. Once a teacher and a counsellor, she remains interested in the life journeys that people take.

She also is partial to historic homesteads and country gardens. She currently lives on a small slice of rural Australia in central western New South Wales. Alissa is a USA Today bestselling author.

Alissa Callen: Rural and small town fiction. Dusty roads. Secrets. Romance.

Read the story blurb for The Long Paddock

The Long Paddock is releasing in eBook and paperback with Harlequin (Aus) MIRA in February 2017.

Country-girl Cressida Knight fills her days with her farm, a rouge pet bull called Reggie and her volunteer emergency services work. The busier she keeps, the less she thinks about the cowboy who left her behind. She’s convinced the small-town Woodlea grapevine that she’s moved on, but now it’s time to move on for real.

Champion bull rider Denham Rigby shares Cressy’s deep love for the land and all he’s ever wanted was to stand shoulder-to-shoulder with Cressy through life. But three years ago a dark family secret left him no choice but to run. Now family duty gives him no choice but to return to the bush.

What Denham hasn’t come home to do is to hurt Cressy by rekindling their relationship. He’s nothing but a liability and the beautiful, self-reliant cowgirl has to stay off limits. But when faced with Cressy’s desperation to save her drought-stricken farm, he can’t keep his distance. He joins her out droving on the long paddock. Then when Woodlea is hit by more than just rodeo fever, they are further thrown together and Denham loses the battle to lock down his emotions.

But has he left it too late to stop running? And will the woman he’s always loved be prepared to risk her heart for a second time?

A captivating love story about community and second chances.

Cover reveal and pre-order links coming soon.

Alissa’s current rural romances include the Outback Dust series:

Outback Dust Series Book 1: Beneath Outback Skies

Down Outback Roads is an enthralling rural love story, about family, community and allowing yourself a second chance.

Kree Garrett’s younger brother Seth is all the family she has left, so when he goes missing while working in the Australian outback, she races from America to join in the search.

To everyone’s relief, Seth is rescued by local volunteers and Kree finds, in an abandoned historic Cobb & Co Coach House, the opportunity to thank the community she’s fallen in love with. But it isn’t only the town she’s fallen for.

Ewan Mackenzie has given up everything for his brother’s family, but he can never give enough to assuage his guilt at what happened one dark night, years ago . . . Ewan knows he doesn’t deserve happiness, however with Kree he finds it hard to keep his distance.

Can Kree and Ewan leave the tragedies of their pasts behind long enough to find a future together?

Beneath Outback Skies is available in eBook and paperback from all good retailers.
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Outback Dust Series Book 2: Down Outback Roads

A captivating rural romance featuring an indomitable young woman determined to save her family farm, and the city-boy who is not all he seems…

Paige Quinn will let nothing and no one distract her from caring for her wheelchair-bound father, Connor, and fighting for her remote, drought-stricken property, Banora Downs. Least of all a surprise farm-stay guest named Tait Cavanaugh, whose smooth words are as lethal as his movie-star smile.

Except Paige can’t help noticing that, for a city-boy, Tait seems unexpectedly at home on the land. And he does ask a lot of questions.

It doesn’t matter how much he helps out or how much laughter he brings into her life, she soon suspects he is harbouring a big secret – the real reason he has come to Banora Downs.

 

Down Outback Roads is available in eBook and paperback from all good retailers.
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Alissa also writes other contemporary romance novels. Find out more on her website.

More places to find Alissa
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