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2000s: There’s a trace of romance in the outback
2000s: There’s a trace of romance in the outback
Paige Quinn will let nothing and no one distract her from caring for her wheelchair-bound father, Connor, and fighting for her remote, drought-stricken property, Banora Downs. Least of all a surprise farm-stay guest named Tait Cavanaugh, whose smooth words are as lethal as his movie-star smile.
Except Paige can’t help noticing that, for a city-boy, Tait seems unexpectedly at home on the land. And he does ask a lot of questions.
It doesn’t matter how much he helps out or how much laughter he brings into her life, she soon suspects he is harbouring a big secret – the real reason he has come to Banora Downs.
Alissa Downs creates the life and times of a community living in the Australian outback
She herself spent most of her childhood chasing sheep on the family farm, and so has always been drawn to remote areas and small towns. She also says she loves historic homesteads and country gardens and loves tracing the journeys people take and the places people journey to and from.
Banora Downs is sadly fictional but it sounds like a typical homestead in the Australian outback. somewhere where Tait, a “city-boy” would go to for one reason or another. But this is where a city boy sticks out like a sore thumb – so when he seems to be used to the land, suspicions is raised..
“Unless this city boy is on a first name basis with the rain gods, I’m not showing him around Banora Downs”
Author/Guide Alissa Callen Destination: The Outback Departure Time: 2000s
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