Fierce Country Hearts: Gripping Saucy Kimberley Romance

Fierce Country Fierce Hearts is a sweeping, saucy and deeply romantic Australian Outback thriller-romance set against the ancient, blazing, gorge-carved landscape of the East Kimberley in Western Australia, one of the most dramatic and most extraordinary regions on earth, where two-billion-year-old sandstone rises from the gorge floors and the permanent pools have been in the country's memory since before memory had the form that people recognised as memory. When Sydney corporate lawyer Mara Sutton is sent to Kira Downs Station in the East Kimberley to effect the hostile takeover of a four-hundred-and-twenty-thousand-acre pastoral lease on behalf of a private investment syndicate, she expects a routine legal transfer. She does not expect to find, in the station's filing cabinet, the evidence of a systematic fraud that has been stripping generational pastoral families of their land across the Kimberley for nine years. She does not expect the Unsorted folder in the second bedroom that Nate Drummond's father left where the right person would find it. And she does not expect Nate Drummond himself, fierce and protective and completely of this country, third-generation Kimberley station owner, the kind of man who has been fighting alone for six years with nothing but the documents and the absolute refusal to be broken, who looks at her from the first afternoon in the station yard like she is both a problem and the answer to something he hadn't known he was asking. When a record pre-monsoon flood cuts the station off from the highway and traps Mara in the Kira Downs homestead with the documents and the man whose world she's been sent to dismantle, the professional distance she'd maintained becomes impossible. She was sent here to take his station. She finds, instead, the case his father built, and she goes to war for it. From the flood-trapped homestead and the evidence of the Darwin meeting and the criminal conspiracy that reaches from a Darwin hotel room in 2016 to the top of her own law firm, through the Federal Police investigation and the Darwin Supreme Court and the recovery of nine Kimberley stations, to the North Ridge proposal and the wedding at the gorge edge and Clara who carries Gerald Drummond's name into the next generation, Fierce Country Fierce Hearts is the most dramatically gripping, most saucy and most emotionally complete novel in the series, a story about a woman who came to effect a transfer and found that the only thing transferred was herself, a man who kept the documents and the faith that the right person would come, and the ancient Kimberley country that holds the truth of everything that is built on its bones.