This book is well written and kept my attention. I did not want to put the book down. I enjoyed reading this book and look forward to reading more in this series. ( )

This is a fairly short and light story about a daughter in Western Australia who takes on the responsibility of her parents’ homestead when they move to Perth for her mother’s health issues. Her lifelong friend and neighbor, MJ or Mitchell Johnson, has always had her back and she’s tried to help him in caring for his homestead too, to a lesser extent. However, Libby Barnes receives continuous and unwanted advice from her parents, which she pretty consistently ignores. Enter Cal, a good looking guy who moves in with her but just isn’t usually available when disaster, like lightening strikes, vandalism, attacking her prize bull which she was in the process of selling, strikes. Libby reports incidents to the local police but it’s usually MJ who steps up to help, lending a hand or an ear or a back, as he’s always done. Libby hears rumors about why Cal went to a mining camp to get out of helping her on the homestead and who all he’s becoming friendly with. Of course, she discounts all this and tries to blame MJ for trying to get her out of this disaster of a relationship with Cal. Libby didn’t seem to step up to handle her own mishaps and wasn’t really the self-reliant take-charge person I had envisioned. Not a strong romance but a friendship that has grown over time, especially from MJ’s perspective. ( )