Kate had always felt secure in her marriage, so when her husband of thirty years told her he needed a divorce to marry his pregnant lover, the rejection she felt catapulted her into a rudderless life of demoralising dalliances. In quiet desperation Kate found Hope Valley. Set in the stunning Australian bushland of Queensland's Atherton Tablelands, this country romance tells of a woman who unlocks the grim past of a broken family caught in the crossfire of circumstance, and whose healing would be inextricably linked with her own.