The Postmistress. Alison Stuart. 2021.

1871. Adelaide Greaves and her young son have found sanctuary in the Australian town of Maiden’s Creek, where she works as a postmistress. The rough Victorian gold mining settlement is a hard place for a woman - especially as the other women in town don’t know what to make of her - but through force of Will and sheer necessity, Adelaide carves out a role.

But her past is coming to find her, and the embittered and scarred Confederate soldier Caleb Hunt, in town in search of gold and not without a dark past of his own, might be the only one who can help. Can Adelaide trust him? Can she trust anyone?

When death and danger threaten - some from her past, some born of the Australian bush- she must swallow her pride and turn to Caleb to join her in the fight, a fight she is determined to win…….