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Australian Affairs: Wed: Second Chance with Her Soldier / The Firefighter to Heal Her Heart / Wedding at Sunday Creek
Barbara Hannay
Leah Martyn
Annie O'Neil
Australian
AFFAIRS
Australian Affairs: Taken – January 2019
Australian Affairs: Rescued – February 2019
Australian Affairs: Tempted – March 2019
Australian Affairs: Seduced – April 2019
Australian Affairs: Wed – May 2019
Australian Affairs: Claimed – June 2019
About the Authors
Reading and writing have always been a big part of BARBARA HANNAY’s life. She wrote her first short story at the age of eight for the Brownies’ writer’s badge. It was about a girl who was devastated when her family had to move from the city to the Australian Outback.
Barbara and her husband live on a misty hillside in Far North Queensland’s Atherton Tableland. When she’s not lost in the world of her stories she’s enjoying farmers’ markets, gardening clubs and writing groups, or preparing for visits from family and friends.
Barbara records her country life in her blog, Barbwired, and her website is: www.barbarahannay.com (http://www.barbarahannay.com)
ANNIE O’NEIL spent most of her childhood with a leg draped over the family rocking chair and a book in her hand. Novels, baking, and writing too much teenage angst poetry ate up most of her youth. Now, quite a few years on from those fevered daydreams of being a poet, Annie splits her time between corralling her husband (and real-life Scottish hero) into helping her with their cows or scratching the backs of their rare breed pigs, and spending some very happy hours at her computer, writing. Find out more about Annie at her website: www.annieoneilbooks.com (http://www.annieoneilbooks.com)
LEAH MARTYN loves to create warm, believable characters for the Mills & Boon Medical Romance series. She is grounded firmly in rural Australia, and the special qualities of the bush are reflected in her stories. Browsing in bookshops and buying an armful of new releases is high on her list of enjoyable things to do.
Australian Affairs: Wed
Second Chance with Her Soldier
Barbara Hannay
The Firefighter to Heal Her Heart
Annie O’Neil
Wedding at Sunday Creek
Leah Martyn
www.millsandboon.co.uk (http://www.millsandboon.co.uk)
ISBN: 978-1-474-08664-6
AUSTRALIAN AFFAIRS: WED
Second Chance with Her Soldier © 2013 Barbara Hannay The Firefighter to Heal Her Heart © 2015 Sheila Creighton Wedding at Sunday Creek © 2015 Leah Martyn
Published in Great Britain 2018
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Table of Contents
Cover (#ue6e42607-5489-5bb4-9017-dc7af4820d05)
About the Authors (#u1c8fce55-e594-53d5-b3b1-f3fe3ca15b97)
Title Page (#uc0eb64d6-7088-5a43-9a75-5d05acc053d8)
Copyright (#u16daa773-6110-5914-9c12-0188adda5c9a)
Second Chance with Her Soldier (#ub12327e9-cb37-5f9a-b96a-b392293afcc6)
Back Cover Text (#u338dc8d7-2a9e-5a0e-ace8-16f075c75f93)
PROLOGUE (#ud6a06b5c-0fef-5351-81b4-74113347481a)
CHAPTER ONE (#u3343ee71-777d-5465-be93-fe1771d13c4e)
CHAPTER TWO (#u88c5a6ad-6c92-51ed-b5a2-8c31e36fe5f1)
CHAPTER THREE (#ua89ef242-5817-59c1-91e5-d602bec3e0b7)
CHAPTER FOUR (#ue4f77e4f-5466-5429-90c9-eb08e652a8b9)
CHAPTER FIVE (#u9081c070-7011-5f6f-afcb-54d74274c40f)
CHAPTER SIX (#u7baf532b-14e7-54ec-957e-64a7dcb584fd)
CHAPTER SEVEN (#ue587a711-3c85-5b0b-bfd6-04af39530719)
CHAPTER EIGHT (#u24ac139d-2e5e-5be1-bcba-885c563cfe9f)
CHAPTER NINE (#litres_trial_promo)
CHAPTER TEN (#litres_trial_promo)
CHAPTER ELEVEN (#litres_trial_promo)
EPILOGUE (#litres_trial_promo)
The Firefighter to Heal Her Heart (#litres_trial_promo)
Dedication (#litres_trial_promo)
CHAPTER ONE (#litres_trial_promo)
CHAPTER TWO (#litres_trial_promo)
CHAPTER THREE (#litres_trial_promo)
CHAPTER FOUR (#litres_trial_promo)
CHAPTER FIVE (#litres_trial_promo)
CHAPTER SIX (#litres_trial_promo)
CHAPTER SEVEN (#litres_trial_promo)
CHAPTER EIGHT (#litres_trial_promo)
CHAPTER NINE (#litres_trial_promo)
CHAPTER TEN (#litres_trial_promo)
Wedding at Sunday Creek (#litres_trial_promo)
Dedication (#litres_trial_promo)
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CHAPTER THREE (#litres_trial_promo)
CHAPTER FOUR (#litres_trial_promo)
CHAPTER FIVE (#litres_trial_promo)
CHAPTER SIX (#litres_trial_promo)
CHAPTER SEVEN (#litres_trial_promo)
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CHAPTER TEN (#litres_trial_promo)
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CHAPTER THIRTEEN (#litres_trial_promo)
About the Publisher (#litres_trial_promo)
Second Chance with Her Soldier (#ue521b2b7-b24b-5976-ad8e-f2de34011e99)
Barbara Hannay
One last chance?
Returning from the front lines, Corporal Joe Madden clutches his divorce papers. After a series of heartbreaking fertility problems, he knows his once perfect marriage is set for the final curtain.
It might be three years since Ellie has seen her husband, yet his power to make her heart race is just as strong. But he’s only passing through, and all that’s needed is her signature….
Until the rain begins to fall on Karinya Station and there is nowhere to escape. Could a Christmas peace treaty and a magical few days bring the sparkle back into their marriage?
PROLOGUE (#ue521b2b7-b24b-5976-ad8e-f2de34011e99)
CORPORAL JOE MADDEN waited two whole days before he opened the email from his wife.
Avoidance was not Joe’s usual MO. It went against everything he’d learned in his military training. Strike swiftly was the Australian Commandos’ motto, and yet...here he was in Afghanistan, treating a rare message from Ellie as if it were more dangerous than an improvised explosive device.
Looming divorce could do that to a guy.
The fact that Joe had actually offered to divorce Ellie was irrelevant. After too many stormy years of marriage, he’d known that his suggestion was both necessary and fair, but the break-up certainly hadn’t been easy or painless.
Now, in his tiny hut in Tarin Kot, Joe scanned the two other email messages that had arrived from Australia overnight. The first was his aunt’s unhelpful reminder that she never stopped worrying about him. The other was a note from one of his brothers. This, at least, was glib and slightly crude and elicited a wry chuckle from Joe.
But he was left staring at Ellie’s as yet unopened email with its gut-churning subject heading: Crunch Time.
Joe knew exactly what this meant. The final divorce papers had arrived from their solicitor and Ellie was impatient to serve him with them.
Clearly, she was no longer prepared to wait till the end of his four years in the army, even though his reasons for suggesting the delay had been entirely practical.
Joe knew no soldier was safe in Afghanistan, and if he was killed while he and Ellie were still married, she would receive an Army widow’s full entitlements. Financially, at least, she would be OK.
Surely this was important? The worst could so easily happen here. In his frequent deployments, Joe faced daily, if not hourly, danger and he’d already lost two close mates, both of them brilliant, superbly trained soldiers. Death was a real and ever-present danger.
