Kavanaghs

Josh found himself in a heartbreaking moment. The love of his life stood before him at the alter announcing to the guests that she would not marry Josh. She fled and he never heard from her again.Maddie was starting over with a new candle business. Her last relationship crashed and burned and she decided that she had enough of that. Her focus would be her new candle shop on the boardwalk along the beach in Calico Harbor.Josh and Maddie meet over coffee at the new coffee shop that Josh runs with his brother James. More than the chai flavored coffee is sizzling when they meet. Maddie tried to steer herself away but it becomes impossible. They become a couple but there are haunts from the past that make their way between them.They soon discover what true love really is.

Holly Colter leaves her career in nursing to work at her grandparents' Central Queensland cattle property. But she hasn't bargained on Jesse Kavanagh, the boy who broke her heart and ended up in trouble with the law, being back next door.While doing her best to avoid Jesse, she indulges her love of history by trying to uncover the truth about a murdered ancestor. Her grandfather has a serious health scare, and, alone on the property with a cyclone looming, she is forced to ask Jesse for help. He has changed in the last twelve years, but she has her own secrets.1897: Mercy Forbes is shocked but hardly grief-stricken when she finds her abusive husband murdered. Sergeant Jake Morgan is determined to find the killer, despite his suspicions about Mercy and her eldest son, and a growing attraction between them that threatens to undermine the case and his policing career.Two strong women from different centuries grapple with work, family and love in the harsh environment of rural life. Holly and Mercy must both let go of the past if they are to find the happiness they crave. Heather grew up on a cattle property in Central Queensland and now lives with her husband on a beef and grain farm in the same area. She has two adult children.She has previously published three historical romances and has helped to write and produce several compilations of short stories and local histories. The Cornstalk was a finalist in the 2008 Booksellers' Best Award, Long Historical category, for romance books published in the USA. Breakaway Creek was a finalist in the QWC/Hachette Manuscript Development Program and was released by Clan Destine Press in 2013. It is a rural romance with a dual timeline. Her recent release is Tracks of the Heart, a collection of three short stories.Heather works at home on the farm and helps produce a local monthly newsletter, amongst other voluntary activities.