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Country Calling: Ric & Lara / Mitch & Kathryn / Johnny & Megan
Three memorable Australian outback romances featuring bad-boy best friends.
Ric & Lara
As a teenager, Ric Donato wanted Lara Seymour, but they were worlds apart and frustration pushed Ric into rebellion. Years later he’s a billionaire and he can have anything he wants...or can he? When Lara comes back into Ric’s life she’s more desirable than ever, and just as far out of his reach. He’s determined to save Lara and he’ll do whatever it takes...
Mitch & Kathryn
Mitch Tyler has put his troubled past behind him and is now a lawyer. He’s asked to protect beautiful Kathryn Ledger from the crossfire between her boss and an old enemy. Keeping her constantly at his side, Mitch pretends he’s just doing his best friend, Kathryn’s boss, a favour. But he’s hiding his true feelings because Kathryn is engaged. Then he discovers that Kathryn returns his desire and he’s forced to take action — and take over Kathryn’s wedding!
Johnny & Megan
Billionaire Johnny Ellis inherits a share of Gundamurra, the beloved outback station of his youth...and all of Megan Maguire’s hostility. Megan resents Johnny’s magnetic masculinity. Gundamurra should be hers alone. Shocked when their mutual tension explodes into a night of passion, Megan is further amazed when Johnny lays out his rescue package: Gundamurra will belong fully to Megan...if she becomes his wife!
Ric & Lara
As a teenager, Ric Donato wanted Lara Seymour, but they were worlds apart and frustration pushed Ric into rebellion. Years later he’s a billionaire and he can have anything he wants...or can he? When Lara comes back into Ric’s life she’s more desirable than ever, and just as far out of his reach. He’s determined to save Lara and he’ll do whatever it takes...
Mitch & Kathryn
Mitch Tyler has put his troubled past behind him and is now a lawyer. He’s asked to protect beautiful Kathryn Ledger from the crossfire between her boss and an old enemy. Keeping her constantly at his side, Mitch pretends he’s just doing his best friend, Kathryn’s boss, a favour. But he’s hiding his true feelings because Kathryn is engaged. Then he discovers that Kathryn returns his desire and he’s forced to take action — and take over Kathryn’s wedding!
Johnny & Megan
Billionaire Johnny Ellis inherits a share of Gundamurra, the beloved outback station of his youth...and all of Megan Maguire’s hostility. Megan resents Johnny’s magnetic masculinity. Gundamurra should be hers alone. Shocked when their mutual tension explodes into a night of passion, Megan is further amazed when Johnny lays out his rescue package: Gundamurra will belong fully to Megan...if she becomes his wife!
509 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published December 10, 2012
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About the author
Emma Darcy
640 books325 followersEmma Darcy is the pseudonym created by the married writing team of Wendy (1940-2020) and Frank Brennan (1936-1995). Their life journey has taken as many twists and turns as the characters in their stories, whose international popularity has resulted in over sixty-million book sales. With more than a hundred titles, Emma Darcy appeared regularly on the Waldenbooks bestseller lists in the U.S.A. and in the Nielson BookScan Top 100 chart in the U.K.
Wendy was born 28 November 1940 in Australia. Her sister was the novelist Maureen Mary (Miranda Lee). Her father was a country school teacher and brilliant sportsman. Her mother was a talented dressmaker. She obtained an Honours degree in Latin and initially worked as a high school English/French teacher. She married Frank Brennan, an Australian businessman born in 1936. She changed careers to computer programming before marriage and motherhood settled her into a community life. She was reputedly the first woman computer programmer in the southern hemisphere.
As voracious readers, the step to writing their own books seemed a natural progression and the challenge of creating exciting stories was soon highly addictive. They were published since 1983. In 1993, for the Emma Darcy pseudonym's 10th anniversary, they created the "Emma Darcy Award Contest" to encourage authors to finish their manuscripts. After the death of Frank Brennan in 1995, Wendy wrotes books on her own. She lived in a beachside property on the central coast of New South Wales, and liked to travel extensively to research settings and increase her experience of places and people.
Wendy Brennan passed away on December 21, 2020. She is survived by her children, grandchildren, and sister, writer Miranda Lee.
Wendy was born 28 November 1940 in Australia. Her sister was the novelist Maureen Mary (Miranda Lee). Her father was a country school teacher and brilliant sportsman. Her mother was a talented dressmaker. She obtained an Honours degree in Latin and initially worked as a high school English/French teacher. She married Frank Brennan, an Australian businessman born in 1936. She changed careers to computer programming before marriage and motherhood settled her into a community life. She was reputedly the first woman computer programmer in the southern hemisphere.
As voracious readers, the step to writing their own books seemed a natural progression and the challenge of creating exciting stories was soon highly addictive. They were published since 1983. In 1993, for the Emma Darcy pseudonym's 10th anniversary, they created the "Emma Darcy Award Contest" to encourage authors to finish their manuscripts. After the death of Frank Brennan in 1995, Wendy wrotes books on her own. She lived in a beachside property on the central coast of New South Wales, and liked to travel extensively to research settings and increase her experience of places and people.
Wendy Brennan passed away on December 21, 2020. She is survived by her children, grandchildren, and sister, writer Miranda Lee.
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Displaying 1 - 9 of 9 reviews
March 25, 2016
A great read Outback hero's was great loved the three stories about three young 16 year old boys and the different path they take after meeting at Patrick Mc Quire's farm when they were sent there to spend 6 months instead of Juvenile dentition. It tell how the boys become men one at time with the paths each takes and become like brothers and gift of man who changes their lives in way for the good in all three. I will recommend this book.
September 13, 2022
Decided not to bother finishing this one a quarter of the way in. I know it is only fiction but no woman is going to leave a abusive relationship with a minutes notice and take off and sleep with another man the day after she has been beaten and raped by her husband.
February 25, 2018
4 stars was for the third instalment of the book which was Johnny’s story. I enjoyed his story more so than Ric and Mitch’s.
June 14, 2021
Three great stories in one. Loved the difference with a sequence.
September 21, 2023
A fairly typical love story for each of the lads. Overall connected each story with the others. Liked that I knew of the Aussie places they spoke about.
August 18, 2016
Loved this booked....
did-not-finish
January 21, 2017DNF at 26%. I wanted to read this because of the Bachelorette cover. Holy crap this hero is awful. What a dickbag. And the heroine lies about contraception. Just no to this whole thing.
January 31, 2023
Yes, it is a Five Star Story. Very enthralling.
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January 19, 2017I wasn't engaged by the writing; it was stilted and unrealistic at times. This was a DNF for me.
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