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South-east Queensland, 1875. Three pioneering women, one epic struggle - in an unforgiving land where love carries the highest price. Bridie.... Caught between the love she feels for her husband and her hatred for her scheming stepson - she is the keeper of family secrets. Patiently she waits for the day when she can finally reveal the truth. Maddie.... While devoted to her family, she soon discovers that love alone will not protect them from the harsh and hostile land that they have made their home.

Following the tragic early death of her sister, Maddie, Kitty is forced into a hasty marriage of convenience to Maddie’s husband, Ted. She has also just lost the only man she has ever loved. Can she make a new life from the ashes of all she has lost? Kitty’s sons, Edward and James, are as different as they could be. Edward, the eldest, finds only unhappiness in love and escapes to war to forget the past, while James’ enduring love for his childhood sweetheart stops him from embracing the future.

Jess and Brad's marriage is in trouble. They are two good people who don't know how to cope with what life has dealt them. It is not until Jess begrudgingly accompanies Brad on a research trip to the Dimantina and discovers old papers belonging to a woman, Jenna, who lived on the property in the 1870s that she is able to put her own life and losses into perspective. From Ireland in 1867 to Far Western Queensland in the present day, Robyn Lee Burrows draws the past into the present with engaging and devastating effect.

As his arms wrapped her in a tight embrace she swayed against him, savouring the moment. There had been times during the past years when she had wondered if she would ever see him again, would ever be enclosed in those same arms. So many men hadn’t come home. After four years facing the horrors of the trenches in France, Frank Carmody returns to make a life for himself and his wife, Nina. But it’s now 1919 and everything has changed.

Callie’s family home — a symbol of security and love — is to be sold and she is trying hard to shake off the feelings of sadness and loss. When a sandy-haired stranger named Michael knocks at her mother’s door asking questions about the family and great-aunt Hannah, Callie finds herself delving into secrets that have been long kept hidden. Together Michael and Callie start to unravel a love story between Hannah Corduke and a young blacksmith, Ben Galbraith.

From the author of When Hope Is Strong comes a story of enduring love and remarkable courage which captures perfectly the romance and majesty of the era of the river. Early morning was the time Roxy liked most of all. There was a calmness, a stillness about the river, the water stretching away glass-like, bathed in a thin mist. Paddles foamed the surface and with each thrust she imagined herself being drawn closer to the unknown.

It's been years since Gemma visited the small country town where she grew up. She probably wouldn't have returned at all if it weren't for her father's passing. Seeing the town's dusty old buildings and her parent's run-down house again reminds her of events in her childhood that she's tried to keep in the past, even though they colour her every decision in the present. Discovering a music score as she cleans through her parent's belongings, she learns about a love story so heartbreakingly beautiful that it changes her mind about love.