Authors: Margareta Osborn

Mountain Ash (38 page)

Rose River

House-sitting in rural Burdekin's Gap, high up in the East Gippsland mountains, is not an obvious career move for a PR executive like Jaime Hanrahan. But, hey, retrenchment is a kicker.

Plus she's determined not to spend Christmas in Melbourne with her friends, who still have company cars and six-figure salaries, or with her mother, Blanche, who has remarried too soon after her father's death.

However, it turns out that Burdekin's Gap is a
little
more remote than Jaime had anticipated â the house is in the middle of a cattle station, and the handsome manager, Stirling McEvoy, doesn't appreciate a new farmhand in Jimmy Choos and Sass & Bide cut-offs.

Soon Jaime is fending off stampeding cows, town ladies wielding clipboards, sheep who think they are goats, nude sportsmen and one very neurotic cat. So why does she feel like she's falling in love â¦ with the life, with the breathtaking landscape, and with one infuriating cowboy â¦?

Adapted from Margareta Osborn's bestselling ebook novella
A Bush Christmas
,
Rose River
is a gloriously funny romantic comedy set in the beautiful Australian outback.

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Mountain Ash
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First published by Bantam in 2014
This edition published in 2015

National Library of Australia
Cataloguing-in-Publication entry

Osborn, Margareta, author
Mountain ash / Margareta Osborn
9780857987525 (paperback)
Love stories
Country life-Australia-Fiction
A823.4

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