Fire

Ryn Shell writes the Dreaming Billabong series, rural-lit, mystery and romance novels set in wilderness and outback Australia. In book 4, Fire, the heat is scorching, and emotions tinder dry—ready to burn from the revelation of family secrets. Cattle king Alan Fife, Aboriginal Elder Kanga, and the criminal Ray Buckram, are old men facing each other through fire to put an end to the payback crimes. Teenage Jarrah and Emily develop a love that family traditions cannot break. Marianne, a survivor of the fires of war seeks safety in the arms of cattleman Iain Fife. Harry is positioning himself to gain control of Fife Downs Cattle Station—by any means The payback that began when Ray Buckram caught teenagers Charlotte Buckram and Alan Fife engaged in a clandestine meeting at Dreaming Billabong may finally be brought to an end seventy-five years later, but at what cost? There is bittersweet justice. Bonus: Back of book, Glossary of Australian Words. With billabong in the title, you will know that this book contains Australian words, e.g. station = ranch.