Bindarra Creek Romance

Home is not always the safest place to fall in love.When Oxley College closes for the summer, Molly McLean returns to Bindarra Creek with one goal. Save her family home and protect the only place that has ever felt steady. The small country town may be quiet, but every memory, every scar, and every promise is rooted there.Callan Reid is the last person she expected to find waiting. He left once. Now he is back with plans that could change the town forever. Callan is determined to prove he is not the reckless boy who walked away. But Molly remembers exactly how much damage leaving can cause. Letting him close again feels like risking everything she has fought to protect.As old loyalties clash with new ambitions, Molly and Callan must decide whether love is worth challenging the past that shaped them both.----Set during the summer break from Oxley College, Stolen Sanctuary is a slow-burn, closed-door romance about hometown ties, second chances, and choosing between protecting what you love and risking your heart for something more.Perfect for readers who love:small-town romancesecond chancesprotective heroesemotional slow burnheartfelt, character-driven love storiesStolen Sanctuary is an Oxley College spin-off. Familiar faces appear, and the world remains connected to campus life. Stacey Nash writes adventure filled stories for Young Adults. She enjoys reading and writing books that have a lot of adventure, a good dose of danger, a smattering of romance and plenty of KISSING!Author of the Collective Series (HarperCollins AU) and the Oxley College Saga.

When fate brings together two lost souls, it's time to leave the shadows behind and come home to Bindarra Creek.With rejuvenation of her small home town in the pipeline, Park Ranger, Alice Pritchard has no choice but to let go of the past. Dan Molyneaux roars into her life in his high-powered V8 and reopens the Riverside Pub, forcing her to face her ghosts, his possum problem, Curly the cockatoo who swears like a sailor, Old Man Jake who's appointed himself caretaker of the property, and Grandad Charlie who's determined to find her the man he thinks she deserves. Alice would love to ignore them all and keep living in the cocoon she's created for herself in sleepy Bindarra Creek, but fate has other plans for her.Dan isn't looking for love or the friendship of the two crazy old men who appear to have adopted him. All he wanted was the peace and quiet of the country, away from the city highways. Soon he's swept along by renovations, fundraisers, hell-raisers and the problems of a small town coming back to life. But it's the park ranger he's curious about. Why would a girl as beautiful as Alice bury herself in a backwater town so far off the main highway, it was merely a blip on the satellite map? What he uncovers raises some of his own ghosts from the dead.Romance Writers of Australia Romantic Book of the Year Finalist 2016 Juanita escapes the real world by reading and writing Australian Rural Romance novels with elements of suspense, Australian Fantasy Paranormal and Small Town USA stories. Her romance novels star spirited heroines who give the hero a run for his money before giving in. She creates emotionally engaging worlds steeped in romance, suspense, mystery and intrigue, set in dusty, rural outback Australia and on the NASCAR racetracks of America. When she's not writing, Juanita is mother to three boys and has a passion for fast cars and country living.