Absence Makes the Heart Grow Fonder
Publisher: 4th Avenue Press
Published: 2025
Place of publication: Australia
Language: eng
Copyright date: 2025
First sentence: It was nearing midnight when Rebecca Anderson walked toward her bed, holding her pastel cotton nightgown above her knees in the hope of some respite from the heat.
Description: Summer 1888
Brandon, Queensland, Australia

Will absence make the heart grow fonder…or forgetful?
Andrew McPherson had been searching for a way to leave Fuller’s Enterprise since his father’s death, but to no avail. He was beginning to give up all hope until a business associate of his father, Stephen Anderson, asked him to risk everything to get him and his daughter, Rebecca, out of the country. It seemed impossible…until he met Rebecca in town, her green gaze hypnotising him. He found himself willing to do anything for her…even uncover the missing peach-coloured sapphires her father needed…and those at Fuller’s Enterprise were willing to kill for.
Rebecca Anderson was playing a dangerous game, trying to uncover the secrets of the company her father worked for. When she meets a handsome young stranger who works for the same company, she hopes he can help her learn more about her father’s life. What she discovers is a burning passion and a love like nothing she’d felt before. Her happiness is short lived though when she is whisked away in the middle of the night to places unknown.
Forced on the run, Rebecca’s heart aches at the thought of never seeing Andrew again. Imagine her surprise when they are reunited…only to discover he’s been sent after her to return her to Fuller’s Enterprise and the man who had taken control of the company.
Their journey back home is fuelled with adventure and drama. Any hopes of reignited feelings are challenged by mistrust and a mutual enemy who will do anything to get the sapphires. It’s not until it’s too late that Andrew and Rebecca learn they are also a target, the man hunting them needing to silence them both and the secrets of blackmail and murder they’ve uncovered.
Will Andrew and Rebecca be able to bring Fuller’s Enterprise to justice, or will their lives be forever destroyed by the greed of a cruel man capable of destroying both their lives?
Warning: contains sex, strong language, and some violence.