Emma Blaxland-Hunter, a prima ballerina from London, faces a pivotal moment when an injury ends her dancing career. At her mother's urging, she returns to Sydney and discovers that her beloved grandmother, Beattie Blaxland, has left her an unusual inheritance: Wildflower Hill, an old sheep farm in Tasmania.
As Emma begins to sort through the remnants of her grandmother's life, she finds a photograph of Beattie with a mysterious child. This discovery leads Emma on a journey through time, unraveling the secrets of her family's past.
Spanning three generations and set against the backdrop of the Australian wilderness, Wildflower Hill is a story of love, secrets, and the courage to start over. Emma learns from Beattie's life lessons, realizing the importance of keeping her heart open to love and the magic of new beginnings.
This novel is about taking risks, embracing change, and believing in oneself, capturing the essence of what it means to find one's true path.
Spanning the 20th century, the story of Roses takes place in a small East Texas town against the backdrop of the powerful timber and cotton industries, industries controlled by the scions of the town's founding families.
Cotton tycoon Mary Toliver and timber magnate Percy Warwick should have married but unwisely did not, and now must deal with the deceit, secrets, and tragedies of their choice and the loss of what might have been—not just for themselves but for their children, and children's children.
With expert, unabashed, big-canvas storytelling, Roses covers a hundred years, three generations of Texans, and the explosive combination of passion for work and longing for love.
Follow Your Heart is an international bestseller with tremendous word-of-mouth appeal. This bittersweet, heartwarming novel spans generations and teaches the universal truths about life, love, and what lies within each of us.
Originally published in Italy, it begins in late autumn 1992 as an elderly Italian woman, prompted by the knowledge of her encroaching death, sits down to write a letter to her granddaughter, now grown and living in far-off America. Through these moving reflections, one life is laid bare—joys, sorrows, regrets, and all.
Through the eyes of a woman nearing the end of her days, we come to understand what life experience has taught her: that no matter what the stakes, we must look within ourselves and gather the courage to follow our hearts.