Cirrus@Austlit

'He's fighting bankruptcy. She's avoiding marriage. Can love save them both?

'Northern Australia, 1879. Reclusive bachelor Walter Jamieson has spent years trying to make his struggling cattle station viable. His isolated life is disrupted by the arrival of Elizabeth Chesterfield, a young woman determined to escape a marriage arranged by her brother. Walter gives her sanctuary while his property is cut-off from the outside world during the wet season. They find love while Elizabeth's guardian and her 'fiancé' camp on the other side of the flooded river. What will happen when the waters recede?'

Source: Publisher's blurb.