RED COUNTRY

Three years into the drought that killed her father, Tess Corrigan is holding Kallara Downs together with a rifle, a stockwhip, and sheer refusal to lose the only thing her family has ever owned. Then a dust storm brings down a helicopter on her boundary, and the pilot who climbs out of the wreckage, laughing at himself, bleeding, entirely unbothered, is nothing like the eleven men her father once needed to run this country.
Declan Hale has spent four years not landing anywhere for long. He came to muster her cattle for ten days. He stays for the fences, the fire, the flood, and a woman who has never once let anyone see her cry, until him.
But Declan is carrying a past he hasn't told her, and it has a name: his own father, the man behind the gas company quietly buying up the Channel Country one drought-stricken property at a time, starting with the ground under Tess's own boundary. When the truth comes out in a dust storm of a different kind, Tess has to decide whether love that hides its worst parts, even out of fear, is a love she can trust with everything she has left.
Red Country is a slow-burn, deeply sensual outback romance about two people who have both learned to survive alone, and what it costs, and what it gives back, to let someone all the way in. Set against a landscape that takes as much as it gives, it's a story about fences that hold through fire and flood, land worth fighting for, and a love built the same way: properly, the first time, together.