Elisabeth Rose
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From the author of The Ripple Effect comes a poignant novel about a mother who has given up everything for her kids, and her opportunity to take a risk on something for herself.
Annie never thought to use underwear to meet a man, but the trick works on her downstairs neighbour, Hugh. Though he's a handsome English doctor, Annie wants nothing more than friendship. Luckily, neither does Hugh.
But their friendship is shaken and their
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Can a dream hold the answer to a violent crime ... and bring two people together?
Since the deaths of her father and stepmother nine months before, Mia Petros has suffered a terrifying recurring dream which implies that their deaths were not a murder-suicide at the hands of her father--as the police decided--but a double murder.
In Taylor's Bend to clear and sell her father's house, Mia, driven to breaking point by the dream and unnerved by the...
3) Find Her
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A chance sighting leads to second chances – for hope, for family, and for love.
Five years ago, teenager Antonia disappeared. With no compelling evidence, the police eventually called her a run–away, and dropped the case. Her teacher, Jax, has always regretted not speaking up about the rumours she heard circling the school that day, but a random sighting at a train station raises the possibility that Antonia is still alive – and not too far...
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A move to a small town might provide her the solace she seeks - until the once peaceful isolation turns deadly.
After her husband is controversially acquitted of multiple crimes, now-divorced Abbie Forrest escapes to the peaceful rural town of Taylor's Bend intent on focussing on her career as a landscape artist. Estranged from her sister and daughter, Abbie tries hard to forge new relationships in the small community without revealing her own secrets.
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She's been through hell, so risking her heart should be easy...
Anxious to rid herself and her twins of the dark memories from their past, twenty-three-year old Antonia moves to the small rural town of Flynn's Crossing. Antonia is frightened but determined to be independent for the first time in her life, so she rents Mango House and settles in to the community to begin the process of healing.
Town councilor and local real estate agent Flynn has secrets....
6) Empty Heart
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One honeymoon, one vanished husband, one desperate wife, and the cop who is tasked to help her, but can't seem to keep his thoughts on the job.
Honeymooner Nikki Spenser emerges from the surf at Surfers Paradise and can't find her husband, her towel, or her clothes on the beach. Carlos has disappeared from her life as suddenly as he entered it.
In despair, Nikki returns to Sydney where she is contacted by Detective Luke Emerson, a reminder from her...
7) Shadow Music
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When Australian violinist Nina Lee finds a piece of old sheet music at a rummage sale, she quickly discovers the music is imbued with a supernatural power. Strange dreams of a handsome, passionate, and commanding man playing a beautiful melody on violin haunt her nights and gradually consume her thoughts. Time-traveling minstrel Piers de Crespigny demands that Nina help him in his ghostly quest to be reunited with his lost love Miranda. Obsessed with...
8) Mango Kisses
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A sweet, summery, beach—side romance from the author of E for England and The Ripple Effect.
Sent to assess a deceased estate in a small coastal town, ambitious city girl Tiffany Holland is initially annoyed by the out—of—the—way assignment. But she soon discovers sleepy Birrigai hides a wealth of surprises: a cross—dressing motel manager, a Kissing College and her client Miles Frobisher, the laid back, surf—shop owning, real life sex...
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She survived years as a gangland wife, sacrificing everything to the family. But now they're threatening the one thing that she will never, ever give up — her child.
When Maja's abusive gang boss husband Tony is murdered, she takes the opportunity to flee, change her name, and leave her criminal family and her past behind. As Lara Moore, she and her toddler son Petey live quietly in suburban Sydney. Then, one act of kindness threatens to reveal...
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In the small town of Taylor's Bend, some secrets are about to ignite...
When Taylor's Bend vet Oliver Johnson attends a car accident involving a horse float from a nearby stud farm he's not prepared for an encounter with Krista Laatonen, the billionaire owner's stepdaughter. Beautiful, prickly, and entitled, she is everything he despises about the world he left behind all those years ago. But he can't neglect an injured animal, and there is something...
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For lovers of Debbie Macomber, a powerfully emotional romance about one tragic event, and the family, community, and love that must face the consequences.
Twenty-seven years ago, in the heat and chaos of raging bushfires, local police find a toddler and a newborn baby beside the body of a runaway teenage girl, and the course of two people's lives is altered forever...
When Shay Brookes and Joelle Paice meet again, they experience an instant,...
12) Poppy's Choice
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Shockwaves ripple through the country town of Currong when touring rock singer, Kyle, disappears after a gig in the pub. Contacted by police in regard to his estranged brother's disappearance, freelance musician Duncan Barnett arrives. Apart from a drunken father he has no other family and Kyle's sudden absence affects him more than he expects. By chance, single mother Poppy French meets Duncan and she is stunned. This is the man she had a brief,...
13) Stuck
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Thorndike Press
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2009
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When Gina Tait and Brad Harding spend ninety minutes stuck in an elevator together, neither can deny an intense physical attraction. Neither can they deny that in the real world, their ambitions and life views are polar opposites. Despite a constant, nagging desire to stay in contact, Brad and Gina agree nothing could ever come of a relationship between an ambitious city girl and a laid-back widowed father from a small country town ...
14) Instant family
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2011
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twenty-one, Chloe Gardiner put life on hold to raise her orphaned step-siblings. Five years later, teenage Sebastian gets into trouble with the police. A victim of Seb's vandalism, divorced architect Alex Bergman is initially reluctant to involve himself with his rehabilitation. But he soon realizes that all Seb and his twin brother need is a good male role model. Pretty Chloe has neglected her own dreams, can Alex convince her that their dreams can...
15) Outback hero
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2010
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Jonathan Knight can't believe his eyes when singer Stella Starr appears in his tiny outback town of Koologong, stranded when her car breaks down. If he can convince her to model the cotton clothing produced by his company, Koolwear, the struggling local industry will be saved. One problem: Stella, who fled the media spotlight after a humiliating divorce, is traveling as Sue Starkey. Convinced no one recognizes her, she's enjoying Jonathan's attention....
17) Coming home
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2009
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With her career as a cellist crippled by an injury, Libby is back in Sydney seeking employment and a home. When she meets Charles, memories stir - of an obnoxious man in the apartment below thumping on the ceiling when she practiced. But that was years ago, in Vienna. The son of famous musical parents, Charles had a lonely childhood alleviated only by his great-aunt Gloria, who, now in her frail old age, has hired Libby as her live-in companion.