FIVE YEARS HAVE PASSED, AND RACHEL HAS LIVED HAPPIER THAN SHE HAD EVER KNOWN BEFORE… That is, until everything goes horribly wrong with dark shadows from her troubled past remerge to haunt her bliss.

Her feral son arises in her worst nightmares while her stepdaughter seems to be going through some odd teenage angst, but then again, it is always possible it is much more sinister things at play…

Then there are the cattle duffers, or are they simply after the cattle?

An Irish artist turns up again, looking beshagged and miserable.

Why has he come back at all?

Then she finds more challenges awaiting and cannot stop herself from asking - what can she do to have a simple quiet life alone without being harassed by her past…?

And what are the consequences of her future if she fights back…?

Love, loss and heartache fill the pages of author Gillian Wells’ sequel to her bestselling, Mile’s Franklin nominated book, ALONE and Gillian spares no mercy on her readers who love great romance and drama in their books.