After Kim Sullivan’s husband dies in Afghanistan, she flees with her children Abbey and Jake to Journey’s End, their ramshackle farm out on the Great Eastern Escarpment. Initially it’s a reprieve from the sadness of Sydney. Kim, a botanist, commences a rewilding program on her property and quickly they cement themselves into the local community and way of life. Soon handyman Taj and real estate agent Ben are fighting for her affections. Can Kim overcome her grief and learn to love again? It’s a tree change story with a heavy environmental twist. If you are interested in nature, you’ll escape with this story of courage and rejuvenation. (LF)
Zoe King is a recently graduated zoologist struggling in Sydney. She hates
her job in the library and has been unlucky in love. When she gets a job
at a Turtle Reef Centre in Kiawa, Queensland, she takes off without
looking back. She immediately falls in love with the natural beauty of
the area and her job at the centre where she's finally involved in important
research and conservation work. The centre's owner, Bridget, is
gorgeous, talented and engaged to handsome farmer Quinn Cooper. Zoe
embraces her new life but quickly discovers the centre isn't doing well
and is designed to rehabilitate animals back into their natural wildlife,
but that, along with important research, isn't occurring. Bridget doesn't
live up to her impressive resume. Zoe also finds herself falling for the
unavailable Quinn. Meanwhile he has his own issues - he's raising his
brain-damaged brother and runs a cane farm. Zoe cannot ignore the
anomalies nor her attraction to Quinn and undertakes her own
investigations which then threaten her life and her job. The story creates
evocative images of the natural wildlife and details the setting
beautifully. The burgeoning romance takes second place to the deception
and mystery but is all tied up nicely at the end. (LF)
