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With the sickening realisation that his cover has been blown, Detective Dave Burrows knows his family is in serious danger from the vicious stock thieves and murderers, Bulldust and his brother, Scotty. Devastating news brings Dave back to Barrabine, where circumstances force him to question his determination to stay in the police force. How could he live with himself if anything happened to Mel and the kids?

Anna and Matt Butler were childhood sweethearts with a dream of owning their own land, a dream they achieved through hard work and determination. But as the seasons conspire against them and Matt is involved in a terrible accident, the couple face financial ruin and the loss of their farm. As they fight for everything they hold dear, they suddenly find themselves caught up in events much bigger and more dangerous than they could ever have imagined.

Emma Cameron, a recently divorced farmer and a local in Barker, runs Deception Creek, the farm that three generations of her family have owned before her. Every day, Emma pushes herself hard on the land, hoping to make 10-year-old memories of a terrible car accident disappear. And now, there are more recent nightmares of an ex-husband who refuses to understand how much the farm means to Emma. When Joel Hammond is released from jail and heads home to Barker, Detective Dave Burrows and his officer, Senior Sergeant Jack Higgins, are on high alert.

Lauren Ramsey is so concerned about the welfare of a boy in her kindy class, she doesn't realise her own daughter, Skye, needs help. At 14 Skye finds the only person who will listen to her problems is Tamara Thompson, the manager of her favourite clothes shop. Tamara knows what it's like to be a troubled teen, and despite her successful career and loving partner, her sense of worthlessness still threatens to overwhelm her.... Sometimes you have to resolve the past before you can face the future.

Red Dirt Country features the thrilling return of Detective Dave Burrows, now a member of the stock squad in Western Australia. Recovering from an undercover case in outback Queensland, Dave Burrows finally returns to Perth, to join his pregnant wife, Melinda, and their small daughter, Bec. Things have been off-kilter between Mel and Dave for some time and nothing he says or does seems to make it right.

Armed with an honours degree in Agribusiness, Amanda Greenfield dreams of employing all the skills she's learnt at college to help her father turn the family farm from a debt-ridden, run-down basket case into a thriving enterprise. Then tragedy strikes with the death of Amanda's mother in a car accident. Wracked by grief and guilt, and wearied by the long struggle to keep Kyleena a going concern, Amanda's father argues that they should sell up and get on with their lives away from the vagaries of drought and fluctuating stock and crop yields.

The third thrilling Kalgoorlie-set rural crime novel from the bestselling author of The Prospect.

Adam Sinclair stirbt bei einem Flugzeugabsturz und hinterlässt seiner jungen Frau Gemma eine große Schaffarm – und ein schweres Erbe. Denn gerade als Gemma wieder Zuversicht schöpft, fällt ein schrecklicher Verdacht auf sie: War Adam in Schiebereien verstrickt? Und wie viel weiß sie selbst darüber? Sie beteuert ihre Unschuld, doch nur ihre Freundin Jess glaubt ihr – und Ben, ein neuer Tierhändler, der umwerfend aussieht und ganz offensichtlich sein Herz an Gemma verloren hat.

Endlich hat Amanda Greenfield ihren Abschluss in Agrarwissenschaften in der Tasche. Endlich kann sie alles, was sie gelernt hat, zu Hause auf Kyleena anwenden, damit die Farm wieder floriert. Doch ausgerechnet auf der Fahrt zu ihrer Abschlussfeier haben ihre Eltern einen schrecklichen Unfall, und ihre Mutter stirbt. Ihr Vater, gefangen in Schuld und Trauer, will die Farm verkaufen. Doch Amandas Mutter hat ihr die Hälfte vererbt. Amanda kämpft wie eine Löwin um Kyleena. Noch ahnt sie nicht, in welches Wechselbad der Gefühle das Schicksal sie stürzen wird.