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Welcome to Last Bachelor Standing!How long can three sexy single men hold out?Our next bachelor? Mr. Business-Before-Pleasure, Max Varo. He's a genius billionaire with the cojones to go after anything he wants–and win. Now this tempting man is disguised as a «pilot» while he checks out a small Alaskan airline he wants to buy. But he's about to meet his (very sexy) Waterloo….Pilot Claire Lundstrom hasn't a clue that her family's struggling business is on the cusp of a takeover. What she does know is that she has some rather unbosslike lusty thoughts for Max. But Claire will have to convince him–in the most exquisite ways possible–that losing can be way more fun than winning!

Harry Tremayne, a policeman, goes to an isolated valley in the remote Murchison region of Western Australia to find his brother – who vanished a month earlier while investigating the murder of a police detective. Do the gold smugglers at Breakaway House hold the answers to the mystery?<br /> <br />First published as a serial in the Perth Daily News in 1932, the real setting for the book is Mt Magnet, about 150k north of Perth, deep in gold country.<br /> <br /><i>'It is somewhat less intense and less effective than the books in the Bony series, but it is successful as an early effort of Upfield's treatment of the Australian outback.'</i> – Ray Browne, <i>The Spirit of Australia</i>

Two city women – a century apart – find love and adventure with rugged men in the Queensland outback.<br /> <br />Two love stories; two parallel lives; two destinies.<br /> <br />Set in the 19th and 21st centuries, Heather Garside's debut novel is a passionate rural romance of love and its consequences.<br /> <br />Shelley and Emma are separated by time but bound by a dark secret to a place called Breakaway Creek.<br /> <br />Betrayed by her long-term boyfriend, Shelley Blake has fled the city to return to her home town. Her interest in a photograph of her great-great-grandparents is piqued by her family's reticence about the mystery couple, and a search for answers takes her to the cattle station Breakaway Creek.<br /> <br />Here she meets Luke Sherman, a man embroiled in the bitter ending of his marriage and a heart-breaking separation from his two small boys.<br /> <br />Shelley resists an instant attraction to Luke, as neither is ready for a new relationship.<br /> <br />And, while Luke struggles to reclaim his children, Shelley uncovers the truth about her ancestors, Alex and Emma.<br /> <br />A story of racial bigotry and a love that transcends all obstacles takes the reader back to the pioneering days of the 1890s.