Beyond the Purple Hills

by Heather Graves

Maggie McDiarmit takes after her father Dermot in every respect: her wild red hair, her love of horses - and her weakness for picking pockets. After Maggie and Dermot have stolen the passage money, the McDiarmit family travel to Australia, land of opportunity. But old habits die hard and when her pickpocketing skills come to light Maggie is forced to flee from the city. Accepting grazier Callum MacGregor's offer of a domestic position on his family's property, Maggie instinctively trusts him. In fact it is almost as though she has met him before.

Soon Maggie realises why. Callum's younger brother, Hamish, from whom he is bitterly estranged, is none other than the young man her father robbed in Melbourne. Hamish has every reason to scorn and denounce her - but seeing his brother's undisguised interest in Maggie, he takes a more subtle revenge...

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Hardcover

First published July 4, 2013

About the author

A writer for more than twenty years and with several books published in Great Britain by Robert Hale and Piatkus, Heather Graves recent work includes a series of romantic novels based around thoroughbred horse racing in Melbourne. A keen race-goer, her books centre on the men and women involved in the horse racing industry as owners, trainers and riders.