Heather Garside: 4 books

Rather than join her wealthy parents in England, Louise Ashford finds work as a governess in the frontier settlements of Central Queensland. She falls in love with Lloyd Kavanagh, a young cattleman of convict descent. But she knows Lloyd will never be accepted by her family. Their romance ends...

Growing up as the coachman's son at Ashford Manor, Matt Jones is never at ease with his place in the world. Everything he believes about himself is turned upside down when he discovers a well-kept secret. He travels to Australia in search of his birth parents and revels in the rugged lifestyle on...

Two city women - a century apart - find love and adventure with rugged men in the Queensland outback. Two love stories; two parallel lives; two destinies. Set in the 19th and 21st centuries, Heather Garside's debut novel is a passionate rural romance of love and its consequences. Shelley...

Three short stories of rural romance that will take you on journeys of heartbreak, terror and and a woman's tentative struggles to reclaim her identity. Playing With Fire Lisa is forced to revisit a tortured love affair when she recognises her companions on an outback train journey - an ill-fated...