title: Outback Woman
author: Blake, Sally
description: Look before you leap.
  
  That should have been Priscilla Baxter's motto, but it was one she didn't heed. Knowing she wasn't destined to be a star on London's stage, she impulsively accepted the government's offer to pay her fare to the new colony of Australia, and, equally impulsively, she offered her services to James Mackenzie when he had no patience with the petty regulations of the Ladies' Committee. Travelling with him to Balletree Station was an eye opener to the arid hard land, a land matched by the people who sought to tame it. But further shocks were in store for Prissy...