Kate’s life was cruising along very nicely. No highs. No lows. Just the way she liked it. Then Patsy McLean had a 60th birthday and Kate learned her entire family would be attending the party, including her younger daughter, Ashley.
As an orphan 10-year-old, Kate’s young life had been turned upside down when she was sent to live with her aunt in the historic gold mining city of Charters Towers. For the quiet and lonely Kate, the extroverted Ashley McLean had been her salvation. Their childhood friendship developed into love, a love Kate had thought would last forever. But Ashley had succumb to family pressure and broken Kate’s vulnerable heart.
Now 10 years later, that same Ashley McLean was coming home. Kate told herself she was well over her, that she had moved on and made a life without her. She kept telling herself that. Yet her reaction to just the mention of Ashley‘s name had her wondering if her hard won indifference was a battle she only thought she’d won.

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