Stone Country

Author:   Nicole Alexander
Publisher:   Penguin
Format:   Softback
ISBN:  9780143786825
Product Id:   6038
Dimensions (cm):   19.6 H x 13.0 W
Pages:   432

South Australia, 1919. Ross Grant has always felt like the black sheep of his wealthy Scottish family. An explorer by nature, he dreams of life on Waybell, their remote cattle station in Australia's last remaining wilderness, the Northern Territory.

Then his brother Alastair is branded a deserter after going missing during the Great War. To help restore the Grants' damaged reputation, Ross is coerced into marrying Darcey Thomas, a woman he has never met.

Disgusted by his manipulative family, he turns his back on his unwanted wife just hours after the ceremony, and heads to Waybell with no plans to return. He carries with him the hope of carving his own empire in the far north.

But Ross did not count on Darcey's determination to be his wife in more than just name. Nor did he anticipate meeting Maria, a young woman who will change his life. And he certainly wasn't prepared for how this beautiful yet savage land with both captivate and destroy his soul...

From nineteenth-century Adelaide to the red dirt of the mid-north South Australia, tothe cattle stations and buffalo plains of the far north, Ross's journey is one of desire, adventure and determenation, to the heart of stone country and beyond