Her Cattleman Boss
Kate Brodie stood with her suitcase beside her, her sensible jacket folded over her arm, and looked across the stretch of sunburned grass to the site of her first and worst heartbreak.
She had hoped to feel calmer about coming back to the Australian Outback after nine years, but her first glimpse of the low, sprawling homestead baking beneath the harsh sun sent her stomach churning like a tumble dryer.
Such an annoying reaction after all this time. She was no longer the naïve English teenager who'd come to her uncle's cattle property for a holiday. She'd recovered years ago from the embarrassing crush she'd wasted on Noah Carmody, her uncle's handsome young stockman.
Kate looked again at the silent homestead with its ripple-iron roof, reaching low like a shady hat over deep verandas, and her throat tightened painfully. She could almost picture her Uncle Angus standing at the top of the front steps, waiting to welcome her, his silver hair shining in the sun's dazzle and his smile as wide as his open arms.
He'd lived in virtual exile in Australia—which had always seemed like the bottom of the world to Kate—but he'd been her only male relative and s ... read full excerpt from: Her Cattleman Boss ebook
