LUST-HAVE LIST: Rural Romance Novelists edition (p3)
Jennie Jones
With a background steeped in the performing arts, actress Jennie Jones adds drama, excitement, and a healthy dose of feel-good romance into every novel she writes. Her latest novel, A Heart Stuck on Hope, is out now.
A Heart Stuck on Hope
Jennie Jones
There’s nothing left for Adele Devereux in Sydney: no job, no relationship, no hope, and no diagnosis for her shy, uncommunicative daughter Ali. So she packs her bags, takes her meagre savings, and moves her small family to the country. She never expects to meet Tom Wade, a man facing his own hopeless situation, but whose kindness reaches her daughter in an unexpected friendship. As the small town of Dulili attempts to regenerate itself, Adele finds herself drawn further in to the community – and into her attraction to Tom.
Tom is not back in Dulili to build a relationship. He’s there to heal wounds, help his grandmother, and make new plans. Plans that don’t come with his grandmother’s new tenant who is part of the Dulili dollar scheme.
But as Adele and Ali effortlessly work their way into his thoughts and his heart, he realises that there are two crucial elements that he left out of his long-term plans – the chance for love and renewed hope for the future.
Rachael Johns
One of our most awarded rural romance novelists, Rachael most recently earned the ABIA General Fiction Book of the Year award for her novel, The Patterson Girls. No rural romance bookcase would be complete without a Rachael Johns novel adorning the shelves. Rachael’s latest novel, Outback Sisters, is out now.
Outback Sisters
Rachael Johns
Cafe owner Frankie has been unlucky in love all her life. It’s hard in a small town like Bunyip Bay to meet prospective partners. Her sister, Simone, lost the love of her life years before and is now devoted to raising their two teenage girls, leaving little time for romance. When Frankie is kissed by a handsome stranger who calls her Simone, it’s a case of mistaken identity – but who is this man and how does he know Simone?
Logan Knight is in town to meet up with a woman he has met online. Although raised on a farm with his brother Angus, he has travelled the world as a journalist and is now looking forward to meeting a girl and settling down. The girl in the cafe was an amazing kisser – but not the one he thought he was meeting!
Reclusive farmer Angus wants nothing to do with Logan’s plans for improving the property’s finances and finding a partner – until he meets the sisters at a wedding. Who is attracted to whom? More importantly, can Frankie and Simone sort out their feelings for the two brothers without destroying their very close bond?
Mandy Magro
When renowned country music singer/songwriter Adam Brand says, “Mandy writes great stories… sexy and uniquely Australian!”, you know these are must-read stories. But more than that, since 2012 Mandy has established herself as a masterful storyteller bringing her experiences of country life to each and every story. Mandy has a new novel, Walking the Line, out in December 2016.
Bluegrass Bend
Mandy Magro
She couldn’t let her past steal her future any longer…
Ivy Tucker was a gifted musician with big dreams but the night she was viciously attacked took all that away from her. Without the intervention of a mystery man she would have been killed. She has no idea what her protector looks like and though she wrote to him, he never responded. She can’t blame him wanting to forget the past, she feels the same. To survive, she focuses on the healing work she does alongside her aunts at Healing Hills – working with horses to help people rebuild their shattered lives. But her home, her life and her business are under threat…
Ronny Sinclair is finally free after eight years in prison. He regrets ending a life, but in the heat of the moment it was the only way to save another. The young woman he protected was worth every second he spent locked up, and her face and angelic voice are etched in his heart and mind forever. A bittersweet twist of fate gives him a new start in her hometown, Bluegrass Bend. Would she recognise him? Could she, after the terrible state she’d been left in?
Fate intervenes, pushing Ronny and Ivy together at a fundraising event. When Ivy needs Ronny to help her save Healing Hills, he knows he should keep his past hidden, that he should stay away from her, but their love of the country, horses and music brings Ivy and Ronny closer – dangerously so. As feelings build their fragile trust is threatened by Ronny’s secret. Will his determination to leave the past behind him cost them their chance at love?
Lisa Ireland
City meets the country with born and bred city girl (whose heart is well and truly in the country!), Lisa Ireland. In 2015, Lisa achieved Australian Bestseller status with her novel Feels Like Home the eighth highest selling fiction novel by a debut novelist. Her current novel, Honey Hill House, is out now.
Honey Hill House
Lisa Ireland
Move to the country for $1 a week.
Dulili is suffering a people drought. Over the years more people have moved away than have arrived to stay in this old New South Wales farming town, and now only a handful of young families and elderly residents are left. The locals put a plan into action to entice newcomers: offering the town’s empty houses to newcomers from anywhere in Australia. Who could resist renting a beautiful homestead for a dollar a week?
Newly divorced Bea Elliot needs Honey Hill House for more than just a quaint project – restoring a ramshackle old farm house to a successful B&B will prove to her family – and herself – that she is strong enough to make a go of things on her own. She doesn’t need anyone to help her, even if the guy next door is remarkably obliging, delightfully generous, and terribly charming.
A city girl won’t last six months in the country, but Callum ‘Mitch’ Mitchell has good manners and loves his town, so he’ll be neighbourly, but keep his distance. Experience has taught him not to get involved with out-of-towners. Even if this out-of-towner is surprisingly resilient, unexpectedly tough, and unpredictably fond of local football.
Good fences make good neighbours, but in Dulili, it seems like barriers might instead be breaking down…
Fleur McDonald
With sales exceeding 250,000 copies, it’s fair to say Fleur McDonald novels become bestsellers the instant they hit the shelves. Known as one Australia’s leading rural literature authors, Fleur draws inspiration from her lifetime of living and working the land.
Indigo Storm
Fleur McDonald
When Ashleigh decides to flee her difficult husband, Dominic, she’s all too aware he’ll come looking for her. The only way to escape, she realises, will be to move as far away as possible and reinvent herself …
Changing her name to Eliza, she drives for days until she comes across a tiny rural town with friendly locals and a nice vibe about it. There, she rents a room, gets a job and begins the long road to healing and regaining her self-confidence. Then one day, on an excursion to a ruined homestead in the area, Eliza becomes fascinated with a family who lived there during the nineteenth century. But just as Eliza begins to unlock the secrets of her own past, Dominic arrives in town, determined to punish her.
With a cracker plot and nail-biting suspense, Indigo Storm is the story of a courageous woman fiercely determined to reclaim her life and her belief in herself.
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