Homestead in the Eucalypts. Léonie Kelsall. 2024.

When student doctor Taylor Laurence’s city life is turned upside down, she seeks sanctuary on her grandparents’ farm in the South Australian countryside. 

Dauring the lonely nights, she fantasises of a time long-gone; of Anna, who, rising at dawn to milk the cows and fetch water from the well, is caught in a raging fire thst threatens to leave her reputation as blacked as the surrounding bush land. And of Anna’s rescuer, fellow settler, Luke Hartmann. 

Reality blurs as Taylor repeatedly escapes into Anna’s world, and she realises she must discover whether her dreams are pure fantasy or if they recount a story more familiar than she could ever imagine. 

Either way, it seems she’ll end u with a broken mind or a broken heart. The problem is, Taylor’s no longer sure which she would prefer.