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Don’t you just love Macarthur Point? I’ve enjoyed bringing this book to life and hope I can take you back there again some day soon to find out whether Jordan and Sam have their own happy ever after endings like Mitch did. What do you think?
Firstly, thank you to my readers. It’s such a privilege knowing my books sit on your virtual and real-life bookshelves. Your enthusiasm for reading the type of books I write is the reason I keep going.
As always, thanks go to my writing buddies. Without your help, this book wouldn’t have happened. You encouraged me, believed in me and spurred me on to keep writing when I’d almost given it up. Alli Sinclair, Delwyn Jenkins, Ellie O’Neill and Lisa Ireland you are the Fab Four and I love you so much. Andrea Grigg, as always, thank you for being at the end of the phone whenever I’ve needed you – which is a lot. I couldn’t do any of this without you and your amazing ability to push me further and deeper.
Thank you, Annie Seaton, for designing the cover and also for your editing expertise once again. Your bluntness is much appreciated (!), and I hope I’ve done your editing justice.
Thanks to my Veterinarian friend Dr. Amy Kayler-Thomson who inspired me with her menagerie of animals at her farm. Any errors in veterinary procedures or processes are all mine.
I’d also like to make special mention of a little girl named Zoe Stanley, whom I unfortunately never had a chance to meet. In March 2017 Zoe was diagnosed with GBM, a rare and incurable brain cancer and she sadly passed away nine months later.
I briefly worked with Zoe’s mum Penny, who also faced (and won) her own fight with cancer. If you’d like to donate to Zoe’s Fight, all funds raised are donated to help find a cure for kids’ brain cancer because more children die of brain cancer than any other cancer and it’s also the leading cause of cancer death in people under the age of 40.
Lastly, thank you to my family: my fur babies Molly and Indie and Roxy and my ‘kids’ Jeremy, Chloe, Zach and Toby. Special thanks to my romantic hero, Tim. I couldn’t do what I do without you.
ALSO by nicki edwards
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Escape to the Country series:
Book 1 – Intensive Care
Book 2 – Emergency Response
Book 3 – Life Support
Book 4 – Critical Condition
Escape to the Country novellas:
Operation White Christmas
Operation Mistletoe Magic
Other books:
The Peppercorn Project
One More Song
Second Chance Christmas
Coming in 2020:
Before He Was Mine
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Nicki is a city girl with a country heart. Growing up on a small family acreage outside Geelong, she spent her formative years riding horses, hand rearing lambs and pretending the neighbour’s farm was her own. After spending three years in a regional city in New South Wales in her 20’s, Nicki’s love of small country towns and rural life was further developed.
For years she dreamed of escaping to the country with her husband to live on land surrounded by horses, dogs, cows and sheep. Unfortunately, that’s not likely to happen, so instead she continues to live vicariously through the lives of the characters in the books she loves to read and write. Nicki also dreams of living in Canada, but as that's also unlikely, she’ll keep visiting there and setting some of my books in the country that stole her heart 30 years ago.
A voracious reader, Nicki always wanted to be an author. After returning to university as a mature aged student in her mid-30’s to study nursing, she juggled full time study, part time work and raising four small children to achieve her dream of becoming a nurse in 2011.
Her other dream—the dream to write—never left. In January 2014 she wrote her first book and now divides her time between writing and working as a Critical Care Nurse in the Emergency Department, the Intensive Care Unit or in a busy local General Practice where many of her stories and characters are imagined.
Nicki and her husband Tim live in Geelong, Victoria and have four young adult children, two spoiled border collies (#mollyandindie on IG) and Roxy, their Burmese cat.
Life is always busy, always fun and definitely exhausting, but Nicki wouldn’t change it for anything.