Hope's Road (33 page)

Bella's Run

Bella Vermaelon and her best friend Patty are two fun-loving country girls bonded in a sisterhood no blood tie could ever beat.

Now they are coming to the end of a road trip which has taken them from their family farms in the rugged Victorian high country to the red dust of the Queensland outback. For almost a year they have mustered on cattle stations, cooked for weary stockmen, played hard at rodeos and outback parties, and danced through life like a pair of wild tumbleweeds.

And with the arrival of Patty's brother Will and Bella's cousin Macca, it seems love is on the horizon too .Â .Â .

Then a devastating tragedy strikes, and Bella's world is changed for ever.

So she runs - from the only life she has ever known. But can she really turn her back on the man she loves? Or on the land that runs deep in her blood?

Margareta Osborn's bestselling debut â set in Victoria and Queensland â is brimming with the energy and vitality of life on the land.

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Mountain Ash

After years of struggling as a single mother, Jodie Ashton has given up on love and passion. What she craves now is security for herself and her beloved daughter Milly. And marriage to widower Alex McGregor, the owner of the prosperous Glenevelyn cattle station in East Gippsland, will certainly offer that. If only he wasn't so much older
and
so controlling.

Needing space to decide her future, Jodie reluctantly agrees to a girls-only weekend at the Riverton rodeo . . .

Meanwhile, cowboy Nate McGregor vows off women, after his latest one-night stand costs him his job in the Northern Territory. Perhaps it's time to head back to his family home, Glenevelyn, to check out for himself the âgold-digger' his father seems determined to marry.

But first, on his way through Riverton, he plans to stop off at a rodeo.

Two lives are about to collide in one passionate moment â with devastating results . . .

From bestselling author Margareta Osborn comes another scintillating rural romance with a devastating love triangle twist.

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A Bush Christmas

Jaime Hanrahan does not want anything to do Christmas this year.

She's just been retrenched, and, if that wasn't bad enough, this is her first Christmas without her beloved father, Jack, who died last Boxing Day.

Determined not to spend it with her mother, who has already remarried, and her friends, who still have six-figure jobs, she jumps at the chance to house-sit a mansion in rural Burdekin's Gap.

Two problems.

Number one, the property comes with a handsome station manager, Stirling McEvoy, who doesn't take kindly to a city chick destroying his peace. Especially when she needs rescuing from stampeding cattle, falling Christmas trees and town ladies wielding catering lists and tablecloths.

And two, in Burdekin's Gap there's no chance of escaping the festive season. For the town has its own unique way of celebrating Christmas â big time, BUSH style!

A gloriously funny and hopelessly romantic Christmas story set in the beautiful Australian bush of East Gippsland.

Available as an ebook now

Margareta Osborn is a fifth-generation farmer who has lived and worked on the land all her life. She also writes about it in the Gippsland
Country Life
magazine. Home is the beautiful Macalister Valley of East Gippsland where, with her husband and three children, she spends many hours in the mountains in which her novels are set.

She is the author of three novels,
Bella's Run
â a No. 1 bestseller â
Hope's Road
,
Mountain Ash
and the No. 1 bestselling ebook
A Bush Christmas
.

Visit www.margaretaosborn.com.au;
Margareta Osborn;
and
@margaretaosborn

Also by Margareta Osborn

BELLA'S RUN

MOUNTAIN ASH

A BUSH CHRISTMAS (e-novella)

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Hope's Road

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First published by Bantam in 2013

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