Down the Track. Stella Quinn. 2024.

Dr Joanne Tan is an expert in a lot of things. Love isn’t one of them.

Being thirty-something, broke, divorced and in a Cold War with her ten-year-old son is a lot, but Jo’s handling it. Just. At least she is until her job at the Natural History Museum is put in jeopardy, an invitation to dig up dinosaur bones on a remote Queensland sheep station arrives at just the right time. 

It’s not her first trip to Yindi Creek, but it’s not as thought anyone will remember her from fifteen years ago.. And by anyone, of course, she means the pilot she has that fling with. The cling that taught her she’s far safer sticking to science..

Gavin ‘Hux’ Huxtable, helicopter piglet and reluctant sheep-shearer, has turned his broken heart into a secret (and successful) writing career. But running into Jo again, all these years down the track, stirs up a lot more than outback country dust. 

A missing, person, a fossilised leg one and a nosy country cop force Jo and Hux together and the sparks that start flying don’t go unnoticed by the locals..

 Digging up the past isn’t easy. Digging up the truth can be even harder.