From a leading rural romance author comes an inspiring novel about having the courage to forgive past mistakes, set in the heart of the Australian countryside. Secrets can unite, and they can divide. Will he be able to make things right between them?In the small town of Little Heart, Juliette Kerr and Joel Hunter are drawn together by their shared experience being targeted by school bullies. But … But when the bullying takes a drastic turn, Juliette can see no other way to protect Joel from the aftermath than to break his heart and make him leave her behind. Devastated and confused, Joel packs his bags, heading far away in the heart of the outback to jackaroo at Rosalee Station for as long as it takes his heart to heal.A decade later, Joel returns to mend fences with his family and to offer Juliette support. He’s no longer the hot-tempered young man who left, but he’s never stopped loving her. Is it finally time to make things right between them? Will these two lovers find a way to make peace with the past and regain their future together?PRAISE FOR MANDY MAGRO:’Mandy Magro captures tragedy, suspense, heartache and second chances all in one read’ – Talking Books blog
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MS Magro has written a story that is filled with emotions, this one had the blood boiling with them as we get to know Jules and Joel in a story that starts when they are teenagers, sees them torn apart and reunited eleven years later, I have to say if you love a romance with lots of emotion, emotions that will have you yelling, cheering and tearing up and smiling then this is a book you should pick up, I loved it.
Joel Hunter lives on the farmstead in Little Heart in Northern Queensland he comes from a religious family that is filled with love and happiness, but there is a family in town who are bullies and do their best to cause a lot of trouble for Joel, as the years go by he and local girl Juliette Kern fall for each other and they have all the plans for the future, marriage living on the farm, but bullies and life have other plans and they are torn apart in the most sad and terrible way, and this and a promise to keep a secret will see Joel take off for eleven years.
After the incident that changed her life and her, she moves on with her life becomes a teacher and with pressure from her step-father the town Pastor and her mother she marries Lachlan Davies and looks forward to a family life with children and puts the past and the secret well behind her, but life is not what she had thought it would be and when after elven long years the man she had never forgotten arrives back in town, determined to right the wrong that was done before he left, this will mean a lot of feelings that Jules has pushed to a corner of her mind will need to be bought out.
This is a story that is so well written, beautifully told and pulled me in, I loved Joel so much a true gentleman cowboy, he had been through so much at the hands of others and learnt a lot while away for all those years but he never forgot Jules and Jules what can I say what this woman has been through in her life was so hard and to see her come through as such a beautiful loving and caring woman had me cheering her on. They had a lot to get through but with love and passion they did to the best HEA, this is another winner from MS Magro, a must read one that I highly recommend, thank you so much MS Magro.
What a wonderful story this was, set in a small country town of Australia. I could hear the lingo, and despite being a city girl I could feel the characters. The land and animals were given life by this author.
Juliette and Joel were a great couple, split apart years before by circumstances out of their control. Too young to fix the issues at the time. So many feels in this book, you’ll want to all to work out and give them their happy ending.