Cirrus@Austlit

'From bestselling author Margareta Osborn comes another scintillating rural romance with a devastating love triangle twist.

'After years of struggling as a single mother, Jodie Ashton has given up on love and passion. What she craves now is security for herself and her beloved daughter Milly. And marriage to widower Alex McGregor, the owner of the prosperous Glenevelyn cattle station in East Gippsland, will certainly offer that. If only he wasn't so much old er and so controlling.

'Needing space to decide her future, Jodie reluctantly agrees to a girls-only weekend at the Riverton rodeo …

'Meanwhile, cowboy Nate McGregor vows off women, after his latest one-night stand costs him his job in the Northern Territory. Perhaps it's time to head back to his family home, Glenevelyn, to check out for himself the ‘gold-digger' his father seems determined to marry.

'But first, on his way through Riverton, he plans to stop off at a rodeo.

'Two lives are about to collide in one passionate moment - with devastating results...' (Publisher's blurb)

'Bella Vermaelon and her best friend Patty are two fun-loving country girls bonded in a sisterhood no blood tie could ever beat.

'Now they are coming to the end of a road trip which has taken them from their family farms in the rugged Victorian high country to the red dust of the Queensland outback. For almost a year they have mustered on cattle stations, cooked for weary stockmen, played hard at rodeos and danced through life like a pair of wild tumbleweeds.

'And with the arrival of Patty's brother Will and Bella's cousin Macca, it seems love is on the horizon too …

'Then a devastating tragedy strikes, and Bella's world is changed for ever.

'So she runs - from the only life she has ever known. But can she really turn her back on the man she loves? Or on the land that runs deep in her blood?'

Source: Publisher's blurb.