Rakali Springs

Can the new girl in town save the bad boy of Rakali Springs? An Australian small town contemporary romance. It's four years since the events of Wipptee. Matt Brackton's life has gone nowhere since his failures and disappointments in Wipptee. He's given up, drifting from job to job, unable to find meaning in anything. Will the new girl in town be the change he needs? Rosie was a fit and active young woman on the brink of a career as a history teacher, when illness struck. Now she's a shadow of her former self, suffering from chronic fatigue. All her hopes for the future have been abandoned when Rosie comes to Rakali Springs to stay with family and research family history. Does Rosie have a future after all? What can she find out about her notorious ancestress Decima? Can she help a lonely pet dog? Is the depressed and miserable Matt Brackton the man she needs or is their relationship doomed from the start? Rosie Starts Over is a stand-alone romance in the Rakali Springs series, set in an Australian grainbelt town.

Maddison Debranz returns to her home in Wagga Wagga in Australia after five years away, desperate for a happily-ever-after future with her husband. But Daniel is missing and wanted by the police. Maddie follows a lead to Rakali Springs, the town where everything first went wrong for her and Daniel. She receives a hostile reception, but the Brackton family, Grace and her four sons, are willing to give her a place to stay. It doesn't take long for Maddie to discover that everyone has an agenda. Grace, the family matriarch, is determined to end destructive land clearing on neighbouring Wipptee farm at any cost. Matthew guards his secrets well, Liam is sleazy and unpredictable, and Travis wants only regular work for his earthmoving business. Worst of all, Constable Theo Brackton never misses a chance to accuse, criticise, and think the worst of her. With her chances of solving the mystery of Daniel's disappearance shrinking fast, Maddie's life is at risk when a deadly enemy looking for revenge tracks her down. Wipptee is a stand-alone mystery in the Rakali Springs series, set in an Australian grainbelt town.