The Prospect by Fleur McDonald

The Prospect by Fleur McDonaldISBN: 9781460766880 368 pages When you dig, will you strike gold or unearth dangerous secrets? An exciting new series from the queen of rural crime. No matter how much or how little you find, you will never, ever own the gold. It will always own you. After a scandal, investigative reporter Zara Ellison and her partner, policeman Jack Higgins, have moved to Kalgoorlie but they are each struggling with this fresh start. The wild mining town has its own

Dom Sebastian faces his enemy on a harsh and remote battleground

A new breed of settler was pushing out into the frontier

On an isolated stretch of highway

on the run from wrongful imprisonment

Warning: This novel contains graphic language and violence

cattle trucks and anything else it took to assist Joe and to keep their family of six afloat

This sets in

Bourke itself was once a major 19th-century river port and trading post

Sarah is six before Kelly eventually confronts Lance and has become close friend to Eliza and uncle to Sarah in that time

Luke will take it

across fi re-blackened plains and through tall monsoon woodlands

He's the son of the current owners of the farm