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The inspirational story of a courageous woman fiercely determined to reclaim her life and restore her self-belief.

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When Ashleigh decides to flee her difficult husband, Dominic, she´s all too aware he´ll come looking for her. The only way to escape, she realises, will be to move as far away as possible and reinvent herself.

Changing her name to Eliza, she drives for days until she comes across a tiny rural town with friendly locals and a nice vibe about it. There, she rents a room, gets a job and begins the long road to healing and regaining her self-confidence.

Then one day, on an excursion to a ruined homestead in the area, Eliza becomes fascinated with a family who lived there during the nineteenth century. But just as Eliza begins to unlock the secrets of her own past, Dominic arrives in town, determined to punish her...

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The pace of this tale and of Eliza´s recovery from a tumultuous past are credible and the cast of outback locals is colourful and varied. Weekly Times

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Fleur McDonald has lived and worked on farms for much of her life. After growing up in the small town of Orroroo in South Australia, she went jillarooing, eventually co-owning an 8,000-acre property in regional Western Australia.

Fleur likes to write about strong women overcoming adversity, drawing inspiration from her own experiences in rural Australia. She is the bestselling author of Red Dust, Blue Skies, Purple Roads, Silver Clouds and Crimson Dawn. She has two children and a Jack Russell terrier.

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