Outback Promise

'I can't remember the last time a book affected me this much' Tess Woods Six years ago, the Balfours lost their son Cadel to a hit-and-run driver. A few months ago, Ros discovered Grady's affair. With their marriage fast disintegrating, they decide to take a three-month camping trip into the heart of Australia to try and mend deep wounds and rekindle the fire that once fused them close. This trip will decide the fate of their relationship: do they have enough strength and enough love left to accept what life has put them both through? But trust and forgiveness don't come easily, and Ros and Grady have to navigate not only the wilderness of the Outback and the challenges of other travellers, but also the chasm of grief and bitterness they have sunk into over the last six years. Their only hope for survival lies in facing the secrets they have both tried to keep buried ...

Born in Victoria BC, Maggie set out to see the world shortly after her 17th birthday. She met and fell in love with a wild colonial boy, and, after five years of futile resistance, she moved to Melbourne, Australia and married him. While living Down Under, she started writing fiction. Some of her adult short stories have been published in different anthologies in the US, Canada, and Australia. She has had poetry published in Quills Canadian Poetry magazine.