A divorced reporter on a remote assignment. An alluring cattleman who captures her heart.

City dwelling Maggie Donovan is trying her best to let go of her resentment after her high-profile politician husband of thirty-five years left her for a much younger woman. Her focus now is her job as a reporter for the Country Women’s Magazine, her two adult children, and her church.

She doesn’t care that her ex-husband now has a child who could be his grandchild.

No. It doesn’t worry her at all.

Frank Goddard has never considered moving on after his beautiful wife, Esther, was killed in a freak accident six years earlier. His family, who live with him on Goddard Downs, a cattle station in northern Australia, plus his faith, are what he lives for now.

But he’s lonely. He just doesn’t know it.

When Maggie is sent to the remote, mysterious Kimberley area to write about women living on isolated cattle stations, she jumps at the chance. A change is as good as a holiday, so they say.

Never did she expect to fall for the tall, handsome Frank Goddard of Goddard Downs.

But how can a relationship work when they live so far apart?

When the road is slow and dangerous.

When their lives are complicated.

And besides, how do you date when you’re going on sixty?

Slow Road to Love is Book One in the Sunburned Land Series, a mature-age Christian romance set in the beautiful, rugged and remote Kimberley region of northern Australia. Fall in love with Frank and Maggie today, but note that their story continues in Book Two, Slow Journey to Joy. 

Married at last, life is bliss for Frank and Maggie, until storm clouds gather over Goddard Downs

In May 2021, the original second book in the series, Slow Journey to Joy, was unpublished and the content incorporated into the end of Slow Road to Love and the beginning of Slow Path to Peace.  If you purchased the original version of Slow Road to Love which ended with Maggie dashing off to Paris, you’ll need to download the first 12 chapters of Slow Journey to Joy before reading Slow Path to Peace. You’ll find the download link inside your copy of Slow Path to Peace.

Frank and Maggie are enjoying married life, but all is not well on the home front.

The whole family’s livelihood comes under threat when the government declares a ban on live cattle exports.

How will they survive? Will they lose everything they’ve worked so hard for?

Serena used to be young and beautiful. Now, her face is scarred for life.

Will there ever come a time when she can look in the mirror and not be repulsed by her horrid, charred skin?

Will she ever see herself as God sees her? As a precious, much-loved daughter of the King?

David is riddled with guilt. He thought that caring for Serena would assuage that guilt. It didn’t. Maybe fighting a raging fire will help.

Unless he dies in the process.

But what does it matter now that Serena has rejected him?

Maggie longs to help her daughter find peace, but can she balance her new marriage to Frank at the same time?

Slow Path to Peace is Book Two in the Sunburned Land Series, a mature-age Christian romance set in the beautiful, rugged and remote Kimberley area of northern Australia. Continue Frank and Maggie’s heartwarming love story today.

He’s a cowboy who’s lost his way. 

She’s a daughter who’s lost her home.

Joshua Goddard has lived in the shadow of his father and brother all his life. He wants more from life than simply taking tourists on overnight cattle drives.

Stella Martin has done her best to keep her family’s cattle station afloat, but the bank has had enough and her parents have given up.

However, Indigo Downs is her home and she’ll do what she can to get it back. Even if it means taking a job at Goddard Downs.

She won’t lose her heart to Joshua Goddard, the good-looking cowboy she met at the rodeo. He’s no good for her. He doesn’t share her faith. It can’t work.

But maybe it can… if he would only allow God to heal his deep-seated hurts, maybe they can both find the love they’ve been searching for.

Slow Ride Home is Book Three in the Sunburned Land Series, a contemporary Christian romance set in the beautiful, rugged and remote Kimberley area of northern Australia. Grab your copy now and be blessed.

A death, a wedding, and a change of plans…

The Goddard family is in shock. One of their own is dead.

How can they go on? Who will run the station?

Frank and Maggie have been planning their retirement, but must they now put their plans on hold?

Will Joshua rise to the challenge and get his girl, or will he allow grief to weigh him down?

Change is everywhere at Goddard Downs

But in the midst of crises, God changes hearts.

Slow Dance at Dusk is Book Four in the Sunburned Land Series, a contemporary Christian romance set in the beautiful, rugged and remote Kimberley area of northern Australia. Grab your copy now and be blessed.

A road trip, a new romance, and a new start…

Frank and Maggie have finally set off on their much awaited and longed for road trip. They relish the time together, exploring new places, meeting new people.

But their trip is interrupted when Frank grows ill.

How could this have happened? He was the epitome of health. Will he survive? Will they need to return home? What are God’s plans?

Meanwhile, more changes are underfoot at Goddard Downs.

Sean has returned and has his eyes on Elizabeth, but does Elizabeth have her eyes on him?

Can he truly give up his wild ways like Joshua did?

Is David’s suggestion of building a bridge really a possibility? Or is it a pipe dream?

And can Janella leave Goddard Downs and embrace a new career and a new home?

Slow Trek to Triumph is Book Five in the Sunburned Land Series, a contemporary Christian romance set in the beautiful, rugged and remote Kimberley area of northern Australia. Grab your copy now and be blessed.

A Christmas celebration, an engagement in doubt…

Maggie and Frank are excited to welcome the entire family home for Christmas. It’s been too long since they were all together, and since Frank’s heart attack, they cherish each moment spent with their family.

Plus, there could be two engagement announcements!

Janella’s bringing Wade to Christmas, and everybody’s expecting Sean to finally pop the question to Elizabeth.

The whole cattle station’s buzzing with anticipation.

But Sean still has niggling doubts.

Since Uncle Frank appointed him as co-manager of Goddard Downs, his life has changed for the better, and at last he feels like somebody, and yet, he can’t shrug off his father’s words.

Although he loves Elizabeth, how can he expect her to marry him when his dad could be right and he could fall into his old ways at any time?

Elizabeth Martin’s had enough of waiting for Sean to propose, and Susan’s offer to travel the world and nurse wherever the Lord leads holds appeal.

But can she leave Sean? The thought distresses her.

But does she love him enough to wait forever for him to propose?

What if he never does?

How can she join his family for Christmas when all eyes will be on them?

It’d be easier not to go.

She’ll pick up another shift, make her excuses.

Somebody needs to care for the sick while everyone else celebrates the birth of Jesus.

Can this impasse be broken? Can Sean find the courage to face his fears and commit to Elizabeth before he loses her?

Will Elizabeth choose to travel the world, or will this Christmas be one that will change her life forever?