IN THE HOT NORTH OF AUSTRALIA, WHERE TENSIONS SIMMER, COMES A FAMILY SAGA WITH ALL THE ELEMENTS OF A RIPPING YARN.
Jordan Hale returns to Eden, the sugar cane plantation in Far North Queensland he left as a boy, with two objectives. To rebuild Eden, and destroy the man he blames for his parent’s deaths. However, Max Courtland is powerful and not afraid to fight dirty. The only chink in his armour is his wife and daughters, so Jordan goes out of his way to get close to them. But the bored Courtland women turn the tables. A rich, handsome man in their midst is an attraction too hard to resist and they become a complication in Jordan’s life. Another complication is Eve, who has been squatting on Eden in his absence and refuses to leave. She’s single-minded and writing freelance articles for the local newspaper, criticizing plantation owners for using slave labour. Somehow, she makes herself indispensable to Jordan who falls in love with her. But Eve has been keeping a big secret from Jordan and it ultimately puts her life in jeopardy.
ELIZABETH HARAN is the best selling author of eighteen books set in Australia and translated into ten languages. Her books have made the European bestseller lists many times.
Elizabeth Haran was born in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe (known as Southern Rhodesia. Afterwards, her family moved to England and wandered from there to Australia. Today she lives with her husband in a seaside suburb of Adelaide in South Australia. She has two grown sons. Her passion for writing she discovered early 30s.Previously she worked as a model, owned a nursery and worked with young children in a primary school.
I enjoyed this book enormously. The story kept you wanting to turn the pages and the characters are intriguing. It shows a real sensitivity to the far North Queensland sugar cane communities. I highly recommend the book.