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After her family suffers a tragedy when she is nine years old, Alice Hart is forced to leave her idyllic seaside home. She is taken in by her estranged grandmother, June, a flower farmer who raises Alice on the language of Australian native flowers, a way to say the things that a...re too hard to speak. But Alice also learns that there are secrets within secrets about her past. Under the watchful eye of June and The Flowers, women who run the farm, Alice grows up. But an unexpected betrayal sends her reeling, and she flees to the dramatically beautiful central Australian desert. Alice thinks she has found solace, until she falls in love with Dylan, a charismatic and ultimately dangerous man. The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart is a story about stories: those we inherit, those we select to define us, and those we decide to hide. It is a novel about the secrets we keep and how they haunt us, and the stories we tell ourselves in order to survive. Spanning twenty years, set between the lush sugar cane fields by the sea, a native Australian flower farm, and a celestial crater in the central desert, Alice must go on a journey to discover that the most powerful story she will ever possess is her own.
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At just fifteen years old, Geena had no choice but to leave home. Without an education or any real options, she found herself being lured into the sex industry by the promise of big money and the validation of strangers. She turned to drugs and alcohol to numb the pain of day to ...day life as a call girl. But even in her darkest hours, Geena refused to accept her circumstances and never stopped striving for freedom and a better life. Now, Geena has a double university degree, a successful career in corporate management and is in a loving relationship. Call Me Sasha is the inspirational account of one woman's journey from sexual abuse through prostitution to eventual salvation. It is raw, compelling and at times even funny as Geena Leigh recounts the highs and lows of her fascinating life in the sex industry.
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From bestselling Australian author Mandy Magro comes a passionate rural romance about realising what you need has been with you all along. Molly's life is almost perfect. She's the devoted mother of Rose and a renowned horse trainer. She lives amid the beauty of Jacaranda Farm in... the beautiful Far North Queensland countryside, surrounded by family and friends - none closer than hunky stockman Heath. But she's still looking for the love of her life, and wonders whether that could be Mark, the long-lost father of her daughter. When Mark stumbles back into her world, Molly begins to hope for a future she'd long ago relinquished. But how will Mark react when he learns he's a father? And could the man of Molly's dreams be closer to home than she thinks?
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From bestselling Australian author Mandy Magro comes a passionate rural romance about realising what you need has been with you all along. Molly's life is almost perfect. She's the devoted mother of Rose and a renowned horse trainer. She lives amid the beauty of Jacaranda Farm in... the beautiful Far North Queensland countryside, surrounded by family and friends - none closer than hunky stockman Heath. But she's still looking for the love of her life, and wonders whether that could be Mark, the long-lost father of her daughter. When Mark stumbles back into her world, Molly begins to hope for a future she'd long ago relinquished. But how will Mark react when he learns he's a father? And could the man of Molly's dreams be closer to home than she thinks?
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It's Sarah Clarke's dream to experience the real Australian outback. When the opportunity comes up to join her boyfriend Brad on remote property Rosalee Station, she jumps at the chance. But within days of arriving, her relationship is in tatters, and the reality of outback life ...is fast losing its appeal. Determined to prove herself, Sarah stays on, earning the admiration of Matt, the station owners' son. Beneath the wide outback skies, the pair are irresistibly drawn to each other, until a stolen kiss leads to disaster. Sarah leaves Rosalee, convinced she'll never see Matt again - but will fate find a way to intercede?
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Can they find the path to forgiveness and healing, or will grief keep them apart forever? After eight years of marriage, Sarah Walsh had thought she and Matt would be together forever. But when a fatal accident serves up the cruellest punishment any mother could face, their relat...ionship falters. Sarah is helpless as Matt flies off the rails - she braves one last-ditch attempt to try and make him see they need to work together to get through the heartache. But will it be enough? And what about her - how does she go on alone? Reeling from devastation and guilt, Matt gets the wakeup call he needs to save his marriage before it's too late. But the way forward is littered with obstacles, and he can see it's only by returning to the outback beauty and isolation of Rosalee Station that he has any chance to reclaim the man he once was. But will this separation end up costing him everything?
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Grace has the perfect life - a thriving career, a beautiful daughter and a rich and successful husband. But then a devastating fire not only destroys everything she owns, but also exposes the facade her marriage has become: how on earth did she stay married to such a man for so l...ong? Just when did she lose her independence? She needs to remember the woman she used to be, learn to stand on her own two feet and set a good example for her little girl. But it's not easy starting over, especially with a vindictive husband determined to make life difficult. She has always heard that Bali is the last paradise. And so, with her life in tatters, she decides to take up an offer that will let her discover the island's delights, and - she hopes - find herself in the process.
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Grace has the perfect life - a thriving career, a beautiful daughter and a rich and successful husband. But then a devastating fire not only destroys everything she owns, but also exposes the facade her marriage has become: how on earth did she stay married to such a man for so l...ong? Just when did she lose her independence? She needs to remember the woman she used to be, learn to stand on her own two feet and set a good example for her little girl. But it's not easy starting over, especially with a vindictive husband determined to make life difficult. She has always heard that Bali is the last paradise. And so, with her life in tatters, she decides to take up an offer that will let her discover the island's delights, and - she hopes - find herself in the process.
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On the gold fields of the colonies, enemies are easily made. In the confines of a ship, they can turn deadly. When Kitty and Rian Farrell sail their schooner Katipo III into Dunedin Harbour in 1863, they are on tenterhooks. The new Otago goldfields have attracted all-comers, incl...uding their friend Wong Fu from Ballarat, who has sent a message for their help. To their surprise, Wong Fu reveals he is more than a mere fortune seeker - he is in fact a Cloud Leopard tong master, and his daughter, Bao, has been kidnapped and taken to opium-ridden China. Kitty and Rian agree to retrieve the missing Bao, but as they sail closer to their quarry, the stakes jump dramatically. And little do they know that the deadliest threat lies in their midst.
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Bestselling Australian author Mandy Magro returns with a compelling rural romance about love and the cost of keeping secrets. Can dark family secrets ever truly be buried? When a horrible twist of fate leaves teenage friends Emma Kensington and Zane Wolfe reeling in the wake of a... fatal accident, the two are driven apart for decades. As a professional bull rider in America for the past sixteen years, Zane has stayed a sensible distance from the one woman he's always loved but could never have - Emma, his childhood friend, and his brother's wife. But a phone call revealing his stepfather's sudden death means keeping half a world between them is no longer an option. Returning to Silvergum, how will he keep his long-held feelings under control? For Emma, along with the death of her father-in-law, Peter, is the shadow of the secrets he'd been blackmailing her with. She's finally free to tell the truth to the man she's covertly loved from afar all this time. But Peter's hand stretches beyond the grave, and all too soon Emma discovers she's not the only one who has been keeping secrets. And to make peace with her past, she could very likely lose everything she loves most...
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