Böcker av Maggie Christensen

It's been over twenty years since Cass Marshall's relationship fell apart, and she returned home to Bellbird Bay. Now, although happy with the success of her beachwear business, Cass often longs for someone special to share her life.Nursing the wounds of a failed marriage, Mick Roberts has finally accepted his ex has moved on with her life. Determined to avoid his daughter's attempts at matchmaking, he immerses himself in his whale-watching business.When family sickness brings the two together, Cass wonders if her life is about to take a turn for the better. But with Mick's ex-wife also being Cass's best friend, a seed of doubt emerges.This doubt intensifies when Cass's recently widowed ex arrives in town, determined to use any means to drive a wedge between Cass and Mick as he fights for a second chance.Can Bellbird Bay work its magic again and provide a happy ever after for Cass and Mick, or are they destined to spend the rest of their lives alone?

Sandy Elliot is devastated when a fire destroys her new business and doesn't know how she can go on. When she receives a call from her grandmother's old friend seeking her help, a trip to Bellbird Bay seems like the answer to a prayer.Rob Andrews is proud of what he has achieved with Bay Bikes, the business he set up when he returned from Afghanistan. But the memory of his time there still plagues him and has always prevented him from forming any close relationships, afraid his deep-seated guilt and recurrent nightmares would scare off any woman foolish enough to become involved with him.Upon meeting, it's certainly not love at first sight. Sandy hates his beard and tattoos while Rob, though attracted to Sandy, doesn't believe he deserves to find happiness.But Bellbird Bay is a small town, and their paths continue to cross, making it impossible for them to ignore each other or to deny the attraction between them.With the festive season approaching, can Sandy and Rob overcome their pasts and enjoy a celebration of their own?

Following her divorce, Greta Roberts has found solace running Birds of a Feather, an upmarket boutique in the seaside town of Bellbird Bay. But when a ghost from her past reappears, Greta's peaceful, single life is sent into a spin.Leo Carlson has built an empire of hotels and resorts but has never forgotten the perfect summer he spent in Bellbird Bay in his teens. When the opportunity to purchase a hotel there arises, he finds it difficult to pass it up.Meeting again, Greta and Leo are quick to discover they are different people from the young couple who kissed on the beach and vowed to love each other for ever. Beset with challenges which threaten to keep them apart, can Bellbird Bay work its magic and provide these two with a second chance at love?

Alison Wells has built a successful career lecturing in women's studies at a university in Perth, Australia. When her life unexpectedly falls apart, she decides to escape to the coastal town of Bellbird Bay on Queensland's Sunshine Coast.Neil Simpson loves teaching and his position as principal at a prestigious boy's school in Brisbane. But when scandal rocks the school, and he learns his father's health is failing, he believes he has no choice but to return to Bellbird Bay, the town where he grew up.Determined not to be a burden to her brother and his new partner, Ali is considering her options when her life and Neil's collide. Having avoided commitment all her life, Ali is unprepared for the force of her attraction to the man who is trying to come to terms with the upheaval to his own life.At fate conspires to keep them apart, can these two build a new future together; can this small town work its magic on the two lost souls?

Thirty-five years ago, tragedy forced Bev Cooper to cut short her university studies and seek refuge in her hometown of Bellbird Bay. Today, as the owner of the thriving Pandanus Garden Centre and Café, Bev has moved beyond the past and is happy in her solitary existence.Following the tragic death of his son's wife, Iain Grant takes early retirement and moves with his devastated son and granddaughter to the peaceful coastal town of Bellbird Bay hoping it will provide the change of scene they all desperately need.When Iain's son accepts a position at Bev's garden centre, the pair find themselves drawn into each other's lives. But as they begin to enjoy an unexpected attraction, issues from the past threaten to derail their growing relationship.Will the healing atmosphere of Bellbird Bay work its magic and provide a second chance in life, or will Bev find it too difficult to put the past behind her and enjoy her own happy ever after?A heartwarming tale of family, friends, and how a second chance at love can happen when you least expect it.

Can Bellbird Bay provide solace to these two broken souls?When Ailsa McNeil's marriage falls apart, an invitation to spend the summer with an old friend in Bellbird Bay offers her the opportunity to escape and regroup. What she doesn't expect is to meet her friend's twin brother, the first man to stir her emotions when she was an impressionable nineteen-year-old.As a young man, Martin Cooper couldn't wait to leave Bellbird Bay. He has spent the past thirty years travelling the world and has accomplished his dream of becoming a celebrated travel photographer. But it has come at a price and, when his career and personal life take a downward turn, he returns to his hometown to consider his future.When an accident thrusts the two together, their earlier attraction resurfaces. Torn between the desire to protect herself from further hurt and her renewed feelings for the man she's never forgotten, can Ailsa find happiness again or is it too late?A heartwarming tale of family, friends, and how a second chance at love can happen when you least expect it.

A lost child. A mother's grief. A daughter's journey.In Scotland, in1941, as WW2 increases in ferocity, Rhona Begg goes against her parents' wishes and enlists in the ATS-a decision that brings with it heart-breaking consequences. After the war, weighed down with regret and grief, Rhona receives news that has the power to change her life.Across the ocean in Australia, Nell Duncan worries about her husband who is fighting in the Far East. When she receives the dreaded news that he is missing in action, her world collapses. The end of the war brings changes to Nell's life, but her dream of bearing a child is no longer possible and she grieves for what might have been.In 1971, when Joy Baker gives birth to her daughter, she begins the journey to discover her ancestry. What she finds shocks her to the core and propels her on a journey to the land of her birth.Three women. Three mothers. Three astonishing stories.From wartime Scotland to present day Australia. A Mother's Story is an emotion-filled sweeping family saga.

Can the past ever really be left behind?Liz Pender has lived alone since her dreams for the future were shattered by the death of her husband. She retreated to Granite Springs where her life now revolves around her bookshop, The Reading Corner, and her cat, Marmaduke.Newly appointed editor of The Granite Springs Advertiser, Sam Walker, recently moved to the small country town to seek a quieter life.When Liz's bookshop comes under threat, Sam and Liz are brought together causing sparks to fly. But a summons for help from overseas threatens to ruin Sam's country idyll and reignites the past for Liz.Can Liz put the past behind her and face a future with Sam, or are her dreams destined to remain just that?

Peta Forrest has arrived in the country town of Granite Springs determined to help her granddaughter cope with her mother's brutal murder and create a new life for them both.

She's a strait-laced, inhibited career woman. He's an aging hippie who acts without thinking. Can these two opposites find common ground and is there a future for them in Granite Springs?

When widow Kay Jackson is thrust into the position of personal assistant to a professor at the local university, she meets divorced Nick Kerr who is reeling from his wife's defection with a younger man. Can these two make a future together?

Jo and Col have been friends for most of their lives. Following Jo's divorce and the death of Col's wife, the pair find comfort in their common grief. But as they tentatively explore their new relationship, they have little idea of the challenges that lie ahead.

Isla Cameron. headmistress at an elite girl's school in Glasgow, is determinedly single, adroitly avoiding all attempts at matchmaking by a close friend.Widower Alasdair MacLeod is grieving for the wife he lost two years earlier, struggling as the single father of two teenagers, and frustrated by the well-meaning interference of his in-laws.When a proposed school trip to France brings Isla and Alasdair together, they find a connection in the discovery that each is suffering the loss of a loved one, but neither is interested in forming a relationship,As their friendship grows, Alasdair struggles with his increasing attraction to the elegant schoolmistress, while Isla harbours concerns about the complications a relationship with him would bring.Can Alasdair overcome his natural reserve, and can Isla open her heart to love again? ***Readers of Christensen's earlier books, The Good Sister and Isobel's Promise, will love reconnecting with Bel and Matt while enjoying Isla Cameron's unique story.