The Moonshiner — Lucy Walker

Lucy Walker - The Moonshiner (1961)
A romantic new novel of the Australian Outback
Heiress seeks solitude in Australian outback...
Joan Yelland, beautiful, wealthy, tired of the Sydney social whirl and suffering from an unhappy love affair, flies away from it all to a cattle station in North West Australia. There she finds a new and exciting life.
She learns how to swim a swollen river on horseback; to protect a homestead when a cyclone threatens; to sleep beneath the stars. She learns, too, what love truly is when she meets The Moonshiner, a handsome stranger on a black horse, who is pledged to someone else...