Timeless Land

A girl who longs to work with her horse and her dogs on the land, but is chained to the stifling life of a social butterfly, is the heroine of Rachael Treasure's third marvellous Australian Outback saga. The shocking death of her womanising fiance breaks her world wide open.

Rachael Treasure was born in Hobart in 1968 and now lives on a sheep farm in Tasmania with her husband John, her children, Rosie and Charlie, and a menagerie of farm animals, including working dogs from their Castleburn kelpie and border collie stud. Rachael began her working life as a jillaroo (trainee farmhand) before attending Orange Agricultural College in New South Wales. She was a rural journalist before becoming a full-time novelist. Her first novel River Run Deep (published under the title Jillaroo) was a bestseller for Penguin Australia. For more information visit Rachael's website Treasure's Tales www.rachaeltreasure.com

Rosie Highgrove-Jones grows up hating her double-barrelled name. She dreams of riding out over the wide plains of the family property, working on the land. Instead she's stuck writing the social pages of the local paper. 
 
Then the horrible death of her fiance sparks a series of shocking revelations for Rosie and her family. As she tries to put her life back together, Rosie throws herself into researching the haunting true story of a 19th century Irish stockman, who came to Australia and risked his all for a tiny pup and a wild dream. Is it just coincidence when Rosie meets a sexy Irish stockman of her own? And will Jim help her realise her deepest ambition - or will he break her heart? 
 
Timeless Land moves effortlessly between the present and the past to reveal a simple yet hard-won truth - that both love and the land are timeless.

The Dare

The sweeping story of a family riven by the tragic death of a mother and of a daughter who is hiding a secret - a secret which is ruining her life.

Rachael Treasure was born in Hobart in 1968 and now lives on a sheep farm in Tasmania with her husband John, her children, Rosie and Charlie, and a menagerie of farm animals, including working dogs from their Castleburn kelpie and border collie stud. Rachael began her working life as a jillaroo (trainee farmhand) before attending Orange Agricultural College in New South Wales. She was a rural journalist before becoming a full-time novelist. Her first novel River Run Deep (published under the title Jillaroo) was a bestseller for Penguin Australia. For more information visit Rachael's website Treasure's Tales www.rachaeltreasure.com

Dyed-in-the-wool country girl Kate Webster seems not to have a care in the world: playing hard, drinking even harder, she tells herself that she will worry about the consequences later. But there is one consequence she cannot escape: the result of a wild dare she undertook when she was nineteen, her little daughter, Nell. 
 
Now she seems hell-bent on self-destruction: fighting with her father over the future of their farm after the death of her mother and his remarriage, refusing to reveal the identity of Nell's father, while remaining in love with him, and all too often neglecting Nell herself, while she parties the night away. 
 
But destiny is about to take a hand and stop Kate dead in her tracks. As in all Rachael Treasure's novels, tragedy and violence are only ever a heartbeat away. And back into her life, too, is about to walk the father of her child. How can she ever admit the truth to him?

River Run Deep

A big-hearted romance from the Australian Outback, River Run Deep catapulted Rachael Treasure onto the bestseller list when published as a paperback original by Penguin Australia. Reminiscent of Nora Roberts's Montana Sky.

I was caught up in the drama, fun, rocky romances and many adventures of Rebecca, one of the most refreshing Australian heroines ever ... By the end of this book, you yearn for a ute, a pair of boots, and the  wide open spaces.

Rebecca is a wonderful character, being both feisty and fallible ... The author's easy narrative and solid and believable characters and plot ... make River Run Deep a widely appealing read. In short, a real treasure.

Rachael Treasure was born in Hobart in 1968 and now lives on a sheep farm in Tasmania with her husband, children and a menagerie of farm animals. Rachael began her working life as a jillaroo (trainee farmhand) before attending Orange Agricultural College in New South Wales. She was a rural journalist before becoming a full-time novelist. River Run Deep (published under the title Jillaroo) was a bestseller for Penguin Australia. For more information visit Rachael's website Treasure's Tales www.rachaeltreasure.com

After a terrible argument with her father over their family property, Rebecca throws her kit into the back of her ute and heads north with her sheepdogs. A job as a trainee farmhand takes her into the rowdy world of country dances, Bundy rum and boys. When she at last settles down to a bit of study at agricultural college, her life is turned upside down by the very handsome, but very drunken party animal, Charlie Lewis. 
 
Will she choose a life of wheat farming on vast open plains with Charlie? Or will she return to the mountains to fight for the land and the river that runs through her soul? 
 
It's only when tragedy shatters her world that Rebecca finds a strength and courage she never knew she had, in this action-packed novel of adventure, dreams, heartbreak and love.

Rachael Treasure

Robust country girl Emily Flanagan has been raised in the rugged Dargo High Plains by her mountain cattleman father, but despite the beauty of her High Country heritage she feels lost in life. Trapped in an unhappy marriage, her music-star brother is being consumed in a world of drugs, money and wild women, whilst her father risks losing his family's livelihood. 
 
Emily's problems aren't helped when she finds herself falling in love with the 'enemy', a government man, Luke Bradshaw. As the bill to evict the cattlemen from the mountains is about to be passed, their love seems doomed. And when a savage bushfire sweeps through the mountains, everything Emily knows is endangered.

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