Book 24

Dragonflies and Dinosaurs

by Kate Austin

Published 29 November 2005

At forty-two and given to the occasional panic attack, Randy Roman is taking a leave of absence from her life. After twenty years of working at a bank-no husband, no kids-she's hitting the road with her young nephews Mickey and Eric, and Dexter, a precocious dog they pick up along the way.

With each passing mile of prairie, farmland and raspberry fi eld, Randy feels the thrill of freedom....

Their destination is Cranberry Portage, a quaint lakeside town her mother loved and Randy can barely remember. But a surprise awaits them at journey's end. Call it fate, karma, or the chance for renewal, it will give Randy the courage to take a risk that will change her life....


Book 32

The Sunshine Coast News

by Kate Austin

Published 24 January 2006

Since when did life ever tell you where you were going?

Josie Harris always drew comfort from the thought that she lived a charmed life. Unexciting, perhaps, but stable and predictable. In a rut? Josie counted that as luck-at least one knew what would happen next.

Then disaster struck. Her parents moved across the country, she lost her job and, worst of all-after more than forty years of marriage, her father announced he was leaving her mother. Some local hussy had lured him away! What kind of senior community was this?

Josie knew it was time to take charge. She had to make her parents see sense. So she drove across to the Sunshine Coast and was soon immersed in a new job, new community...and most of all, a new and totally unexpected love.