Bøker av Mary Seaton

Jack arrives on Mable Downs in Queensland nursing a broken heart. With him is his mate Alby also healing from the same thing. Both, not long home from the war they embark on a journey that will take them closer, ever closer to this healing. A journey towards peace and contentment. An adventure like nothing they could have imagined. Along the way they begin to open their hearts to new people and possibilities, to love and laughter and joy. Wayne the station manager knows exactly how they feel as he is a digger from WW1. As Jack embarks on this new life he falls in love with the Australian outback, the top end. It is beautiful, wild, and free, and he recognises its healing powers almost immediately. Best of all is Jack's new and improved relationship with his hero Dan. Dan of the Murrumbidgee.

This is a story based on true events of Mary of The Shanty. Born in a shanty on the banks of the Murrumbidgee River, Mary is a simple girl who was born with an amazing will to live. Pure of heart and keen of mind, she is a survivor.Mary grows up on a small farm with her father on the banks of the Murrumbidgee River in Victoria. She was just sixteen years old when her father died and left her all alone during the great depression in Australia during the 1930s.Mary pulls herself up by her bootstraps and sets about fortifying her property against the influx of the poor, destitute, and desperate, people arriving in the area. These people end up in a camp on the commons on the very edge of Mary's land. Mary's father had warned her they would come and had asked her not to overlook the fact that these people were homeless and starving through no fault of their own.Mary takes produce from her market garden into the monthly market in town and manages to make a living. She is comfortable but hard working. One day as she was returning from the market Mary encounters a few of the camp children. Her heart goes out to them, and she goes to the camp to meet the people. Then and there she decides to help them to help themselves and a friendly alliance is born. Mary goes through their trials and tribulations with them, she adopts them and they her. But there are those towns people who don't want these people around and Mary and her group find themselves confronted and challenged on all fronts. She forms a bond with Dan, one of the men and together they forge a partnership which will bring all these people through these toughest of times.Mary experiences love and friendship along the way but there are those who wish to hurt her and they do it in the worst of ways. But these people hadn't reckoned on the fierceness of the quiet, unassuming man who loves her, and soon regret bringing his ire down on themselves. For he will stop at nothing to keep his loved ones safe.

Based on a true storyThe Overlanders is a bittersweet, sometimes comical look at the lives and loves in the world of a droving team in the Australian Outback. Their trials and tribulations and the hardships they endured in the harsh desert country they inhabited. The dangers they faced from their enemies and elements alike. It also tells the story of the women they left behind time and time again to fend for themselves. Sometimes for months on end.Faced with the task of delivering cattle, sometimes hundreds of head, from point A to point B, sometimes hundreds of miles, the mighty drovers are a mostly unsung hero. In all weathers they pushed the cattle through. In searing heat and freezing cold, through drought and flooding rains they delivered the meat to feed a nation.Tom was one such a hero, though he would get a good laugh at hearing that said about him. He was a drive boss, and it was on his shoulders, rested the responsibility of delivering live and healthy livestock through the harshest conditions to their destination. It is a myth that these men enjoyed a laid-back stress-free occupation. Yet by the same token they would never entertain the idea of doing anything else.It was on a shortcut through Devils Canyon that Tom decided to take to save time and money that these men met a most harrowing and horrific foe. It would change their lives forever, and to this day these men are loathe to speak of it.A foe, so much more than the usual perils they faced as they drove stock across mountain and plain, through deserts and scrub and forests. Much more threatening than the constant search for water and pasture and the threat from rustlers. A foe so confronting that it made these men consider staying at home.Some happenings are so terrible that they have the power to bind people together in the strongest of bonds. These men came through their ordeal stronger but changed.

The powerful story of a young girl who stands accused of being a witch.Forced to leave her home and family and flee from an angry mob, Carmelia finds herself in the forest alone, frightened and cold. Carmelia also finds an iner strength that she didn''t know she had.She outruns the mob who is hell bent on burning her only to succumb to fatigue and fever before she reaches her aunts house. As she lays down her head unable to go on she passes into a deep slumber.When she wakens she finds herself in a very strange place inhabited by very strange beings. Unbeknown to her she is about to embark on a remarkable and epic journey.

The Power of the Mage''s Staff is the story of a young orphaned girl as she struggles to survive after she has been left alone, homeless and very afraid. She is also wanted by a very powerful and evil duke who thinks she may have witnessed his soldiers as they massacred a whole village, her village.Five boys, also orphans, find her unconscious and very ill. Guessing where she may be from they take her to their cave and hide her. Lotrace lingers in a deep sleep for some time so the boys enlist the aid of an old medicine woman to help her.Eventually Lotrace wakens and begins an epic journey to find her uncle and save the land from the clutches of an evil prince. Along the way she must deal with her new powers as a very powerful Mage as she becomes Theressa of the Lake Endeann, Mage.