One gourmet party. Four potential couples. The taste of love? For singer, Marta Field, her return home is bittersweet. Difficult as it is to put her mother into care and clear out her family home so it can go on the market, the hardest challenge is meeting up with Joe Marshall, the man she loved and left behind. Joe is older now and grounded in the soil of his home town, but Marta can see no long-term future for herself in Rainbow Cove. Besides, she's never forgiven Joe for giving up on their shared dreams. Will the magic of Christmas help these star-crossed lovers find their way back to each other?

A brand new rural romance trilogy from a brand new voice: Shirley Wine introduces you to the secrets and scandals of Darkhaven...For single mum Victoria Scanlan, a visit to the luxurious country house of Darkhaven is a rare chance to combine work with pleasure. Securing the commission for The Wedding Of The Year will guarantee the ongoing success of her floral boutique and secure her the stability she needs for both herself and her son. But Darkhaven comes with a shocking guest – the groom, Keir Donovan, is the man she once knew as Seth Donahue. Her young son's father. The man who has no idea he has a child. The man she can't forget. After a lifetime of betrayal by every woman in his life, Keir has settled on a calm future with the glamorous heiress Davina Strathmore. She is everything Keir needs in a life partner: confident, poised, elegant, attractive and aware that this marriage isn't about love. But when Victoria walks back into...

For single mum, Victoria Scanlan, a visit to the luxurious country house of Darkhaven, is a rare chance to combine work with pleasure. If she can secure the commission for the flowers for the upcoming society wedding it would be a huge boost for her floral boutique.Arriving at Darkhaven, Victoria is stunned to discover the groom, banking tycoon Keir Donovan, is the man she knew as Seth Donahue, her young son's father. Wealthy and powerful, Keir, after a lifetime of being betrayed by every female in his life, has settled on a calm future with the glamorous Davina Strathmore, heiress of media mogul James Strathmore. Davina, Keir's fiancée, has her own devious reasons for accepting his offer of marriage and Victoria threatens her plans. Victoria knows she has to tell Keir about their son, but decides to wait until they're no longer visitors in the Donovan family home, a decision she quickly comes to regret.Too late, she realises she's made a mistake and it's too late to go back and start over.A lie by omission is still a lie, and after a lifetime of being lied to, Keir's has no tolerance for lies...The attraction between her and Keir re-ignites and flares brightly, and Victoria quickly discovers that by not being up front with Keir about their son, she's woven a tangled web of deceit. And when the inevitable happens, and they succumb to a passion neither can deny, Victoria realises by not telling Keir about his son...she's given him good reason to suspect her every action...

Winsome Grainger left Totara Park with a terrible secret in her heart and a darker secret in her past vowing never to return. A vow shattered when she and her estranged husband, Jared each inherit a half share in Totara Park, the Grainger Dynasty's Estate.Under the terms of Jared's father's Will, he and Winsome must live on Totara Park together for two years or the Estate will be sold. Unable to live with the knowledge that, through her, Jared stands to lose his heritage, Winsome reluctantly returns with their four year old daughter Lacey. Unsure of her husband's support, she suffers the guilt of the damned. Never possessing the courage to confide these dark secrets in Jared, Winsome has time to regret never telling him why she walked out on their marriage, why she left him, or why she left Totara Park.Now these secrets threaten not only her shaky marriage and her love for Jared, they threaten her precious child's life, her own life...Filled with foreboding, she discovers she's a mere pawn in a dark and deadly game. A game whose rules she doesn't know...

The biggest challenge of his life, and only she can help...Luke Calloway has spent his entire life steering clear of emotional entanglements, but when his sister and her husband are killed and he becomes sole guardian to his niece and nephew, he can no longer remain aloof. Out of his depth, Luke turns to Brooke Galbraith to assist the badly injured and traumatised adolescents with their physical therapy. With the children's grandparents contesting custody, Luke persuades Brooke to move into his house on Whitby Downs to provide stability and support. Brooke is fighting her own demons, scandals from her past that she can't leave behind. She needs the money, but she can't grow attached. Not to the children, and definitely not to their enigmatic uncle...

Ten years ago Veronica Langdon thought relinquishing her infant son was the toughest choice she would ever have to make..... turns out she was wrong. Her child is dying and to save his life she has to re-visit her painful past, the child she gave away.... and the man she's never stopped loving.Veronica always knew returning to Melbourne would be challenging...but face to face with Leon Karvasis, her son's adoptive father, now a widower, she very soon realises the past is not done and dusted .... the whispers and suspicions of complicity return to threaten their very rocky relationship....