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Red Dust Promise
Paperback
Mystery & ThrillerGeneral Fiction
Publisher: Madelyn Wray
Published: Jun 20 2026
Pages: 80
Weight: 0.23
Height: 0.19 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
The land was worth millions to the mining company.
To Jack Lawson, it was worth everything.
In the burning heart of the Australian outback, Lawson Ranch has survived drought, debt, fire, and five generations of hard work. But when Southern Crown Minerals discovers rare earth deposits beneath the red dirt, Jack Lawson's home becomes the target of a powerful company willing to promise anything-and destroy anyone who stands in its way.
The company speaks of jobs, roads, and progress. Jack sees the truth hiding beneath the polished words: poisoned waterholes, sick cattle, ruined families, and sacred Country scarred for profit.
At first, Jack believes he must fight alone. Then Mara Yarran, an Indigenous ranger and cultural protector, shows him that the danger reaches far beyond his fences. The mine threatens hidden water paths, sacred ridge country, and the future of Dust Creek itself.
To save the land, Jack must stand with the people he once kept at a distance: Indigenous elders, small ranchers, shopkeepers, stockmen, frightened families, and Thomas Kincaid, the wealthy cattleman whose family has been his enemy for decades.
As Southern Crown uses dirty tricks, private debt, threats, sabotage, and silence clauses to divide the town, Jack must decide what kind of man he is willing to become. When illegal drilling begins under a violent outback storm, the fight for Lawson Ranch becomes a fight for water, memory, family, Country, and survival.
Powerful, emotional, and full of courage, Red Dust Promise is an Australian outback ranch drama about greed, justice, community, and one cowboy's promise to protect the land before it is too late.
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