Woman Down Under

Melissa Lawrence swims ashore in Australia. She has no idea what to expect after escaping her captors. Since becoming Mel Lawrence, she finds her interests are expanding beyond just the "woman of means" role she had been raised to accept. After finding someone to teach her about becoming a grazer, she herds a flock of sheep into the Australian outback. She never imagined she would find a mate, a land that challenges her, and a life she felt she was bred for.

Senora Mary Carmen Valenzuela Pearson inherits half a sheep ranch, called a station in the Outback of Australia. Already a ranch owner in Central California, this inheritance creates a huge dilemma for the Hispanic-American. Deciding to sell her ranch and travel to the Outback to see what her uncle has left her, she loads up her children, her cousins and their families, and her valuable horses and books a ship to Australia. The journey will take months by water and many more months by land to get from Sydney to the station. Follow along as Carmen decides where she truly belongs and whether this Outback station will become part of her heritage.

Alinta Lawrence, helping her wife to establish a station in her native outback, learning white ways, is finding it a challenge for the primitive woman. Having a child to raise with her wife, there is so much to learn, about the white woman's world. She's amazed and sometimes overwhelmed by the things these white people seem to need in their lives, will she be able to cope with it all?

Now what? Abigail has a lifetime ahead of her. She is raising three children. One lady, and two lords. She is up to the task, but will she have to do it alone?With her newfound freedom in Australia, she decides to build an estate for herself and her family. Lord Worthington, her oldest son, will inherit his father's estates in England. Her second son, Lord Brentford, will inherit the estate she is building. Her daughter may find an eminently suitable man here, or perhaps she may prefer to go back to England, where society understands nobility, men are plentiful, and she can easily find someone among her peers.Abigail's choices though, are limited, because the men who would advise her feel compelled to protect the delicate woman they believe her to be. Her determination, her decisions, and her money are her own, and she refuses to allow a man-any man-to keep her from making her dreams a reality.But as she chips away at her mental lists to realize those dreams, someone, somewhere, has decided the Dowager Countess of Worthington, Lady Abigail, must die. K'Anne Meinel is a prolific best-selling fiction writer with more than one hundred published works including shorts, novellas, and novels. She is an American author born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin and raised outside of Oconomowoc. Upon early graduation from high school, she went to a private college in Milwaukee and then moved to California. Many of her stories are noted for being realistic, with wonderfully detailed backgrounds and compelling storylines. Called the Danielle Steel of her time, K'Anne continues to write interesting stories in a variety of genres in both the lesbian and mainstream fiction categories. Her website is @ www.kannemeinel.com. K'Anne is also the publisher and owner of Shadoe Publishing, LLC @ www.shadoepublishing.com and in December 2017 she started the Lesfic Bard Awards @ www.lesficbardawards.com. In December 2018 she launched the Gay Scribe Awards @ www.gayscribeawards.com in hopes of duplicating the first year's success of the Lesfic Bard Awards and to showcase more LGBT literature.

Forced into marriage with a much older man after her father catches her in the arms of her female lover, Abigail accepts her lot in life in order to save her family. The love of her life is long gone, cast from her life by her selfless decision, and she must accept that the men in her life-her father and now, her husband-are in control and will do with her as they please.But after an untimely accident, as her husband lies dying, Abigail realizes there might be a glimmer of hope that she could go free. Will she be strong enough to overcome the obstacles life is putting up and find a way back to the arms of the woman she is yearning for?