Robust country girl Emily Flanagan has been raised in the rugged Dargo High Plains by her mountain cattleman father, but despite the beauty of her High Country heritage she feels lost in life. Trapped in an unhappy marriage, her music-star brother is being consumed in a world of drugs, money and wild women, whilst her father risks losing his family's livelihood. Emily's problems aren't helped when she finds herself falling in love with the 'enemy', a government man, Luke Bradshaw. As the bill to evict the cattlemen from the mountains is about to be passed, their love seems doomed.
Rachael Treasure lives on a sheep farm in Tasmania with her husband John and her children Rosie and Charlie. Together they breed and train kelpies, border collies and waler stockhorses. Each year they travel to Gippsland, Victoria to assist with the Treasure family's cattle operations.
Rachael began her working life as a jillaroo (trainee farm-hand) before attending Orange Agricultural College in New South Wales. She also has a BA (Communication) from Charles Sturt University, Bathhurst. She worked as a rural journalist for Tasmanian Country, Rural Press publications, the Weekly Times and ABC rural radio, until she quit her day job for an adventure on a cattle station in Queensland and to begin her fiction-writing career.
