He took the kid across the other side of the room to be assessed. While Mike and the midwives fussed round the baby and new parents, Madeleine tended to the task of stitching up her latest caesarean section. She prided herself on immaculate stitching and got a thrill out of seeing a good scar whe...
Chelsea asked as half an hour later Callum climbed out of the SUV he’d just parked behind her car. He shook his head. “I’m sorry.” He sounded genuinely so and a prick of guilt jabbed her heart that she’d dumped him without hanging around to offer support. The services of T...
Seemed like much longer, and yet the time had also gone by far too quickly. The sun shone in through the gaps in his bedroom curtains, signaling the day had dawned. Hours ago in fact, but they’d both been too deep in sex-induced slumber to notice. The day of the Awards. &n...
Naked? Her body froze. Goose bumps swamped her skin as memories of the previous night zapped her like an electric shock. Champagne. Cameron. Bliss. No way would Father Christmas have been able to leave presents with all the unexpected action going on in her bedroom. The shock quickly made way for...
It was nearing a suitable time to go to bed and as she was pregnant, she thought it more than fair if she headed there a little earlier. It had absolutely nothing to do with the fact that she didn’t want a confrontation with her parents. Surprisingly they’d made no mention of her news once she an...
He ran a hand over his face and decided he had neither the time nor the inclination to shave – he would visit the homestead instead. He glanced at the microwave clock as he headed into the kitchen. Half an hour till he was due at Lauren’s. She was making him dinner. It was the first night they’d ...
Zoe laughed, secretly more than pleased by her appearance. She’d scrubbed up pretty well for a surfie chick who until recently had never felt she had a place in the world. ‘Lucky he won’t be wearing any then.’ ‘Good point.’ The girls laughed until they were interrupted by Sandee coming into the r...
POPULATION 356 Hah, what a joke. Casey Cooper shook her head as she drove her dirt-encrusted, but near-new, red FJ Cruiser past the dilapidated sign on the outskirts of town. The town she’d been born, bred and married in. Soon, she’d add divorced to that list as well. She doubted there were many ...
Nothing else mattered but the way his lips moved against hers as he ran his hands up into her hair and tugged her towards him. She didn’t have time to worry about her technique because his kisses were all consuming. Until this moment she hadn’t thought gentle and ravaging were possible at the sam...
The idea that someone had come onto her property while she was home and done this filled her with a kind of rage she’d never felt before. But rage was better than grief. She’d already cried a billion tears and she feared if she started again she’d never stop. She resisted the urge to call Drew an...
‘Probably not exactly as you’d planned, though.’ He added a chuckle for good measure. Although not much of a chatterbox at the best of times, he was determined to make conversation with the publican over the next few hours. He wished he hadn’t offered to drive her, but Charlie had known about the...
She’d set the date for the last Saturday in June when, hopefully, most farmers would have finished seeding. With Simone’s help, she’d booked the Memorial Hall, started designing the invitations, and begun drafting press releases for the media. Faith relished the busyness but grabbed every opportu...
Logan had been working from home, researching and writing articles at night and helping on the farm during the day, but he wasn’t his usual sunny-natured self. On the journey home from Kalbarri, he’d admitted that he and Simone had called it a day and while he’d made out like this had been a mutu...