Ketika menyadari dirinya hamil, Stella Lassiter memutuskan untuk menempuh perjalanan darat dari Sydney ke pedalaman outback untuk memberitahu sang mantan kekasih. Malang baginya, lelaki itu ternyata telah tewas dalam kecelakaan helikopter, dan Stella malah berjumpa pria lain yang ingin ia hindari, Callum Roper, kakak sang mantan.
Setahun lalu, Callum berkenalan dan langsung terpikat pada Stella di sebuah pesta di Sydney. Percik gairah sempat muncul di antara mereka, namun perasaan Callum ternyata hanya bertepuk sebelah tangan karena Stella lebih menyukai adik Callum. Kini, wanita itu muncul kembali dalam kehidupan Callum, dengan bayi dalam kandungan. Demi almarhum adiknya, Callum bertekad untuk memperjuangkan status sah sang bayi dalam keluarga Roper. Dan sepertinya, pernikahan solusi terbaik untuk mengatasi persoalan itu.
Multi award winning author, Barbara Hannay, is a city bred girl with a yen for country life. Most of her 50 plus books are set in rural and outback Australia and they've been enjoyed by readers around the world.
Barbara has been nominated five times for Romance Writers of America's RITA Award which she won in 2007 and she has twice won Australia's Romantic Book of the Year award.
In her own version of life imitating art, Barbara and her husband currently live on a misty hillside in beautiful Far North Queensland where they keep heritage pigs, hens, ducks, turkeys and an untidy but productive garden.
For me this book was a little bit slow. I expected more romance and things to move along a lot quicker than they did. However I found that the characters were written well, the book fell in around them and made it quite a story to read. Some of the emotional aspects of the novel were there, then again some weren't. I was sad about Scott but happy that true love had a chance and that the truth finally came out.
Stella travels from Sydney to the outback to find the father of her child. Unfortunately she finds his brother instead. Will shared grief bring them together?
Lumayanlah buat bacaan sekedar, tidak terlalu berkesan tetapi tidak juga banyak "missunderstood" yang bikin gregetan. terlalu sedikit romancenya..hahahaha