Violette

by Louise Rotondo

A secret changed everything...

An idyllic holiday to Sydney in the harbourside home of Aurora’s family is shattered when a near accident reveals one of the house’s long-held secrets. The surprises continue when a chance meeting with the neighbour, Violette, allows a glimpse into the turbulent years of Isabella’s early married life and sparks a journey of discovery for Aurora and Callan, shedding more light on the circumstances over sixty years earlier that tied their families together.

The past continues to reach out and touch the present as Aurora discovers the agony wrought by past decisions that lurked beneath the glitz and glamour of her grandparents’ public life. A tragedy at Bilgarra Springs unearths the final pieces in the haunting mystery, completing a tale of tremendous love and highlighting the power of forgiveness.

Is anything really ever as it seems...?

Join Aurora and Callan in the final instalment in the Bilgarra Springs Trilogy.

321 pages, Kindle Edition

Published July 21, 2017

About the author

With the exception of the eight years spent living in Sydney and the Hunter Valley in NSW, I have spent all my time in Far North Queensland and this has undoubtedly shaped me and my writing. There is a different rhythm to life in the Tropics, which isn't unpleasant, although the intense heat definitely is (which is why I have now literally relocated to a mountain in Southern Queensland). I carried the idea for my first novel around with me for approximately ten years before finally completing it and haven't stopped since. My friends and family think I'm nuts because I get up at 4a.m. everyday to write, but that's the extremes that I am prepared to go to in pursuit of it, and an indication of how much I enjoy it.Reader feedback that they enjoyed the book, or couldn't put it down, or that it touched them on a personal level, or even that the family had to fend for themselves for dinner because they needed to get to the end, is all the encouragement that we writers need to keep on going. I can only hope that it gets better and better as time goes on.