September Moon

Alternately poignant, uplifting, and laugh-out-loud funny, this is an enchanting tale of love, self-forgiveness, and the joyous discovery that it’s never too late to become what you were meant to be.

Stranded in Adelaide, South Australia, after the death of her former employer, Englishwoman Amanda Davenport is compelled by her rapidly dwindling resources to accept a position as governess on a sheep station in the wilds of the Australian outback. Frightened by the raw desolation she discovers there, Amanda is desperate to earn her passage home to England. Yet, against her will, she finds herself irresistibly drawn to both the strange, haunting land and to the easy smile and rugged sensuality of the down-to-earth man who has made it his home.

Struggling to bring up three irrepressible, motherless children on an isolated station plagued by all the hardships and dangers of the Flinders Ranges in the 1860s, Patrick O'Reilly thinks the last thing he needs in his life is a prim and proper English gentlewoman. But it isn’t long before O'Reilly begins to suspect that Miss Davenport is not exactly what she seems...

Rich with the memorable characters and flawless sense of time and place for which Candice Proctor is acclaimed, SEPTEMBER MOON is a heartwarming story of resilience and passion set against the harshly beautiful and untamed landscape of the Australian outback. Rated '3/5 - Open door' for steam/spice/heat level.