Wrongly dismissed from her first job in Australia for stealing, Lou took refuge in the remote outback -- and speedily fell in love with her employer, Steve Bryant. Then her old enemy from Sydney, Angela Poole arrived herself, determined to steal -...
Clancy Minnow and her manager, Johnny Raustmann, were very happy running the Brenda Downs ranch in Australia. When the trustees appointed a new manager, Clancy had to break the news to Johnny. But Johnny Raustmann had a way out of this -- for both of...
Fate had not dealt very kindly with Ginny Sorrel, but now at last she was on her way to a new and better life. Then it seemed fortune had sent her another blow, when the first person she met in her new home was the last man she had expected -- or ...
Anna Trent felt she owed her uncle and guardian a debt of gratitude, so when he asked her to chaperone his wilful daughter, Cecily de Manard, on a trip to the Continent, Anna had to agree. Only a little word, that 'yes' -- but what a lot o...
He claimed to be a swagman, and he certainly looked like one -- but Mattie had not known him long before she realized that her feelings towards him were rather deeper than mere curiosity. But just what kind of man had she chosen to fall in love with?...
Now that she had got over the death of her fiancee Alec, Veronica had come back to her Scottish home to pick up the threads again. But Alec's mother had always wanted her as a daughter-in-law, and Alec did have a younger brother. Hero: Alvaro ...
All the way out to Gillgong Station Kerry heard nothing but the praises of Tad Brewster -- 'good cove', 'decent feller', 'best boss this side of the North Pole'... But that wasn't at all the impression she got when she eve...
Nothing -- and no one -- could dash her hopes. Madeline set off eagerly to claim her Australian inheritance. Once there, her spirits sank: her new home was nothing more than a derelict outback station. But she wanted that land. Otherwise her forceful...
Lindsay thought she had been rather clever to obtain the post of bookkeeper at Gundooee station in the Australian Outback -- although she might be said to have got it under false pretences. But the forbidding station manager, Rod Bennett, didn't ...
The brood of youngsters in Nat McMorran's charge at Dulloora Station in the Outback were nice, but a handful, and he was thankful when Jonty Ashburne came along to help out -- which meant that he could now think about marrying his fiancee Isobel,...
Rennie loved little orphaned Magda Sandasen, and was quite prepared to take her into her care for good -- but the child's uncle, who lived in the Australian Outback, had a prior claim and intended to stick to it. He also had the lowest opinion of...
Emmie Montfort had always been the quiet, plain Jane among her beautiful and talented family -- and it was partly to escape from it all that she had come here to Koolonga to take over her inheritance of a small general store.... But when she had ...
As soon as Nonie heard that her beloved old childhood home, Tuckarimba, was for sale, she made up her mind to buy it and make it into a home for herself and her young sister, Pru. But Jacey Lomax, the present owner, thought otherwise -- and so the...
Teresa felt that she had been lucky, in the circumstances, to get the job of governess at Quimera - although she had not realised that Quimera was not, as she had imagined, in Spain, but was a small, almost primitive island off the coast of South Ame...