Country Crush: Ten compact stories for country lovers

Are you ready to fall in love? Pour a cuppa and come home to the country with these ten short stories from Australias small-town storyteller and bestselling author of House for all Seasons* and the Calingarry Crossing Collection. Like all Jenns full-length novels these compact reads with a backdrop of country life have characters to surprise and delight country lovers. Country Crush contains ten complete stories; the perfect size for that coffee break or commute.THAT TIME IN TANGLEWOODThe Timekeepers Store A watchmaker cant control time; he can only set the hands. What happens after he returns the timepiece is up to the owner.Sew Special Audreys tiny alteration business cant prevent her life from falling apart at the seams any more than it can mend her broken heart. That will take someone special.About Midnight Who is Claudia more afraid of losing? Jack the boyfriend? Or Ben the best mate?Lost in Lingerie Could the cute customer in the Akubra hat take out Ninas Weirdo of the Week Award?A Suitcase by the Door Zippers! The noise coming from the spare room-the suitcase zipping shut-is the tiny sound that screams someone is leaving someone. *** ONE FRIDAY IN SUNFLOWERSwept Away Lifes special moments usually flash before a persons eyes moments before death. Reporter Sally ONeill sees a headline: Washed Up Before Shes Even Begun!A Penny for your Thoughts The coin will decide for him. Heads hell do it without delay. Tails it can wait.Geronimo Grayce was thirty-eight when she jumped but with nothing much to say. Quick was easy. Brief was best. A single word more than enough.The Male Run Dr Ellie Porter doesnt know a male run is what she needs until the day her sister gives her one.Some Days are Diamonds Shes on her way to the fortieth floor to say yes-to a marriage proposal and a penthouse apartment in Paris-when a city-wide power outage traps her in an elevator with country lad Mack Pratt.