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Author of the Month
Rachael Johns
Rachael is the best selling author of the Patterson Girls, winner of the ABIA General Fiction and two-time recipient of the Romance Writers of Australia’s Ruby Award.
With more than 30 titles to her name, she’s one of Australia’s most beloved authors. She lives in Western Australia’s Swan Valley with her family.
Rachael will be in conversation at the BMI on Monday 6 November at 6.30pm, tickets selling fast. events.humanitix.com/host/bmiballarat
Book of the Month
The Outlaw's Daughter
Anna Romer
Notorious bushranger Henry Hawke has spent ten years in chains, but nothing could prepare him for the shackles of desire when he meets Solaine Granger. She’s everything he can never have-a lady, a mother, a woman who believes men like him deserve to hang.
Young widow Solaine has been taught that men like Henry are monsers. But when her daughter is kidnapped and the law fails her, she’s forced to strike a devil’s bargain with the one man who might help her – the dangerous outlaw who haunts her dreams.
But as they flee through rugged Australian bushland together, Solaine discovers that the most dangerous thing about Henry Hawke isn’t his past- it’s the way he makes her feel. He’s an outlaw with nothing to lose. She’s a lady with everything at stake.
Together. they’ll risk it all for love. In 1880 Australia, the rules are meant to be broken.
Recommeded Reads
All the Way to the River
Elizabeth Gilbert.
In 2000, Elizabeth Gilbert met Rayya. They became friends, then best friends, then inseparable. When tragedy entered their lives, the truth was finally laid bare: the two were in love. They were also a pair of addicts, on a collision course towards catastrophe.
What if your most beautiful love story turned into your biggest nightmare? What if the dear friend who taught you so much about your self-destructive tendencies became the unstable partner with whom you disastrously re-enacted every one of them? And what if your most devastating heartbreak opened a pathway to your greatest awakening?
The Lucky Sisters
Rachael Johns.
Adopted twins Nora and Stevie Lucky have lways been close. When their mother dies, Nora convinces Stevie to search for their biological parents, only to come face-to-face with a life-changing revelation that sends them spiralling in opposite directions.
With their careers, love lives and even their sisterly bond at risk, they’re going to need more than luck to survive.
An Ill Wind
Margaret Hickey.
High on a hill above the small Victorian town of Carrabeen, 300 wind turbines constantly spin.
Except one is now deadly still – a body hanging from its huge white blade. Det Sergeants Belinda Burney and Will Lovell are shocked to discover the dead man is Geordie Pritchard, a rich local philanthropist and owner of the wind energy farm.
Suicide at first seems the likely explanation, until Geordie’s widow Lucinda insists her husband was murdered – and she has the death threats to prove it.
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