Kirralee Jones eagerly accepts an invitation to perform at her best friend’s wedding in the hills of Yass Valley. Excited to get on the road and leave the city life for lush paddocks and divine country roads, she takes a well-earned month off work, to relax, unwind and get creative with her camera and guitar. Fate, as it will, has major plans in store, and the relaxing holiday she had in mind is replaced with a job outside her nursing skill-set— becoming a rouseabout. Realising country life suits her, what better time to muster all her skills and write a song about it. With her newfound love of the land, the mountains, wild horses and a cowboy, she puts all of her heart into getting ready for the Murrumbateman country music festival.
Alex Hartley has been suffering from a tragic loss and is convinced his traumatic past cannot be healed. It’s not until a guest arrives at the cottage that life takes an unexpected turn. Kiz Jones isn’t the typical city girl, neither is she afraid to speak her mind or get her hands dirty. But there is something from her past holding her back and he wants to know what it is. Trying his best to convince her to trade city life for the country, he offers her a trip to the mountains where both are faced with hurdles to overcome.
With wild spirits, a love of rural life and a yearning for freedom, will the ghosts of the past haunt or help the two lovers move forward? Will the trip to Yass Valley be what she needs to realise she can have both love and a music career?
We were all put on this planet for a very good reason!
There is something special inside of all of us. Some of us find it sooner than others, but you really don't want to take the ghosts of what could have been to your grave. Don’t look back one day and wonder what if.
Go chase your dreams! They aren’t gonna chase themselves.
~ Gina Jeffreys
Businesswoman, Savannah Kennedy, has spent the last seven years living in New York, fulfilling her dreams of being a big-shot marketing guru. Returning home for an Australian Christmas has been making her squirm, not because she doesn’t want to go, but for fear she will never want to leave again. Romance has been off limits under the big city lights, with her heart dedicated to her work, but as she touches down in Australia and revisits her favourite café, she finds out change is inevitable.
Heartthrob, Keiran Baker, owns Rosewood Grange horse stud, deep in the hills of the Yass Valley. With a booming business, he has everything he could ever wish for. With plans of expanding his business into trail riding, an opportunity comes along far too good to refuse, however, it comes with a twist. Settled into horseman life, his family close and a business venture to pursue, nothing can put him off course … or so he thinks.
After being persuaded to show community spirit and participate in the annual Christmas parade, will the charm of the country sky, Christmas magic and old flames be too much to handle?
Can Yass Valley count on a Christmas Miracle?
Sisters, Arabella and Grace Peterson, have been running the family farm in the hills of Yass Valley since their parents died. After an accident on horseback sends her into a coma, she rouses to be faced with a new ordeal. The news of her childhood sweetheart catapults her into a frenzy.
Carter McCarthy is new to town and finding his way around the Valley has proven to be the right move… until he meets Arabella Peterson in his hospital ward. Haunting memories of his former life are thrown in his face, and now with Arabella as his patient, there is no escaping the past. Patient and friend, Bill Marthick, has proven to be a trusted and loyal stockman, who happens to leave an everlasting impression on both, enhancing the path of fate.
Carter and Arabella spark intense chemistry, and through turmoil thrown at them both, they come to realise how much in common they share.
With Arabella confident in her feelings, will Carter be able to move on and leave his past behind? And will the legacy of Bill Marthick be too much to handle?
Book sets available:
Dancing with Dandelions
Walking in Wildflowers
Home for Christmas
Born in the Hunter Valley of New South Wales, Kelly has had a love of rural life from a very young age.
She has lived and worked in outback towns, working as a youth worker, governess and in employment services, now devoted to being a stay-at-home mum, being a homeschooling family and a Farmer's Wife.
Adding to her rural experiences, her husband, Matt, is a hard-working and loving farmer, who settled in the beautiful Yass Valley, NSW. Altogether, they have farmed cattle, potatoes, poppies and lucerne on the North West of Tasmania, and now focused on sheep and cattle.
"When I was a child, I remember drawing and creating books in pencil - it has been a dream of mine since then! I am so very fortunate to have the opportunity to share with you both the love and creativity I have carried my entire life."
Sharing her stories with like-minded readers has been her end goal.
"Thank you from the bottom of my heart for supporting my life-long dream.
~ A happy rural wife x "
