Sometimes the end of the road is just the beginning
As a kid brought up on a cattle property in the New England Tablelands, Reggie Macleod vows she is going to swap the country for city life as soon as she can. And she's followed her dream. Everything is going to plan.
Until one phone call rocks her world entirely.
Reggie's parents have been badly injured in a car accident and they need her help to run the farm while her brother builds up their recently launched farmstay business. It was only going to be for a couple of months ... but that was almost three years ago.
When Tim Warbois checks in to one of their cabins and extends his booking several times, all he seems to want is peace and quiet. But what is really going on under the surface? Is this new hope and purpose he's discovered going to last?
Will Reggie and Tim manage to overcome the wounds of their pasts and build a new future?
Praise for Karly Lane:
'Well written, and bravely done...Once Burnt, Twice Shy is Karly Lane's best yet, celebrating the power of community working to support one another in terrible calamity.' - Blue Wolf Reviews
'I didn't want the story to end...Karly Lane has proven herself time again in rural romance and now she has smashed the contemporary fiction genre with Take Me Home.' - Beauty and Lace
'I loved this read! The main characters were so engaging, their back stories poignant and heartbreaking...their everyday lives relatable with an appeal that connects to the reader...' Reading Writing and Riesling on Something Like This
Author Biography:
Karly Lane lives on the beautiful mid-North Coast of New South Wales, and she is the proud mum of four children and an assortment of four-legged animals.
Before becoming an author, Karly worked as a pathology collector. Now, after surviving three teenage children and with one more to go, she's confident she can add referee, hostage negotiator, law enforcer, peacekeeper, ruiner-of-social-lives, driving instructor and expert-at silently-counting-to-ten to her resume.
When she isn't at her keyboard, Karly can be found hanging out with her beloved horses and dogs, happily ignoring the housework.
Karly writes Rural and Women's Fiction set in small country towns, blending contemporary stories with historical heritage. She is a passionate advocate for rural Australia, with a focus on rural communities and current issues. She has published twenty books with Allen & Unwin.
Her bestselling novels include North Star, Morgan's Law, Bridie's Choice, Poppy's Dilemma, Gemma's Bluff, Tallowood Bound, Second Chance Town, Third Time Lucky, If Wishes Were Horses, Six Ways to Sunday, Someone Like You, Fool Me Once, Something Like This, Take Me Home, Once Burnt Twice Shy, A Stone's Throw Away and the bestselling Callahans of Stringybark Creek series: The Wrong Callahan, Mr Right Now and Return to Stringybark Creek. Wish You Were Here is her twentieth novel.
