Joan Kilby

A mother for Alice Ann His little girl thinks Melissa should be her nanny. After all, she’s kind, pretty and she smells nice. Gregory isn’t entirely convinced that those are the best qualifications to care for his precious daughter, but he’s prepared to give Melissa a chance. Alice Ann is so sweet and her father is so helpless that Melissa’s heart melts. It doesn’t hurt that Gregory is a very attractive man…But Melissa is looking for Something Big that will change her life. She won’t discover it...

Enjoy the dreams, explore the emotions, experience the relationships.Two determined children, two single parents…and a spark! She’d left town twelve years ago, but she hadn’t left alone. Jane Linden had taken away a lasting reminder of her first love…her daughter. Now Jane is back in Australia in order to sell her inherited property. To do so, she’ll have to spend time with Cole Roberts, once the love of her life and still her little girl’s father.Cole is also dealing with the challenges of...

Some loves can’t be deniedA lot has changed since for musical prodigy Finn Farrell since he spent his summers practicing with his piano teacher—and falling for her socialite niece, Carly Maxwell. After blowing his audition for Julliard, Finn turned his back on performing, his romance with Carly collateral damage.When their paths cross a decade later, it’s impossible to ignore much how they’ve grown apart. But what hasn’t changed is how comfortably they fit, or their heart-pounding attraction....

You're being audited. That's hardly his most winning opening line, but Rafe Ellersley isn't here to make friends. He'd promised himself – and his boss – that this audit would be different. This time, he would be the consummate Australian Tax Office investigator. Cool, detached, professional. He'd bring Lexie Thatcher, tax-dodging artisan, to justice with ruthless efficiency. No more bending the rules. It's the only way to save his job.But Lexie proves a far greater...

All right. So Jack Thatcher has experienced deep, personal tragedy. Dr. Sienna Maxwell gets that. But how can the man drop out of life the way he has, pretending to be happy hosting fabulous dinner parties and puttering in his back shed? That's something she will never be able to understand. Because he is only pretending, right? Sienna's a shoot-from-the-hip high achiever, who demands no less from everyone around her. Driven and determined to make her new medical practice – and...

She has it all worked outSarah Templestowe figures she'll take two weeks off work, fly to Australia and buy out the other owner of the outback cattle station her father left her. Then she'll return to Seattle, give the station to her mother as a retirement present and pick up big-city life where she left off.He has other plansBut Luke Sampson is not about to let go of his dream of owning a cattle station. He's not about to let go of Sarah Templestowe, either. Warm, caring and...

Renita Thatcher never imagined she'd see Brett O'Connor in town again – let alone in her office.Over the years, Renita has only caught glimpses of her old crush in the tabloids as Brett jet-set his way to football superstardom.Oh, who's she trying to kid? She'd followed his career religiously. And his marriage to the gorgeous, high-profile trophy wife. Ex -wife.Now Renita, the only loans officer in Summerside Bay, has something Brett wants. Just like in high school,...

Promises, promises…Maeve Arden had promised to love forever, but the marriage failed. Now, five years later, Maeve has finally found peace–peace she's promised herself to keep. The last thing she wants is a new man in her life. Her joy comes from her work–designing landscape gardens.Will Beaumont hires Maeve to design his garden. He, too, isn't looking to have anyone else in his life–no matterhow much she attracts him. He's just agreed to a platonic marriage with another woman–and...

A place called Hope Hayley Sorenson uses horses to help people heal. But when neighbor Adam Banks asks for her expertise with his teenage daughter, she says no. How can she get involved when all she sees is their past? And the attraction Hayley feels for Adam makes her anything but objective!Yet Adam isn't deterred, and in getting to know the woman they call the horse whisperer, he realizes that she's dealing with her own pain. As Hayley etches a place in Adam's heart, all he...