The Distance Man — Samantha Harvey

Vienna had expected only a painting

So it was a shock to learn that her inheritance included a share of the homestead the painting depicted.

Then she met her partner -- arrogant autocratic Bren Darcour. He disliked her immediately, and she him.

Keeping the homestead became a matter of pride, until it proved worthless. But by then the wild outback had cast a spell over her -- a spell in no little way involved with this man she thought she hated....