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A Star To Remember
Paperback
ISBN13: 9780648597926
Publisher: Mal Stevens
Published: Jan 1 2026
Pages: 308
Weight: 0.91
Height: 0.69 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
'per ardua ad astra'
When city life stops feeling like living, Indianna Waters points her compass north. A country girl at heart, and a nurse with something to prove, Indi takes a short-term post in outback Western Australia: a remote community hours from the nearest hospital, where the food truck comes fortnightly and the visiting doctor monthly. The red dirt is vast, the silence is honest, and the work is anything but simple.
Indi is tough on the outside; inside, old regrets still bite. The north offers purpose and a chance to make things right-until she collides with Big Russ Newcombe, a tall, closed-off local whose loyalty runs deep and whose grief matches her own. Between midnight call-outs, clinic days, and starlit verandahs, Indi learns that healing rarely arrives in straight lines. It's built in small moments: a steady gaze, a shared laugh, a road that keeps going when you think you can't.
Set against the rugged beauty of WA's Pilbara and near Karijini National Park, A Star to Remember is a heartfelt small-town/remote-area romance about second chances, found family, and the stubborn hope that survives loss.
Fans of rural romance and women's fiction with a medical thread will find a story that's tender, grounded, and quietly life-saving.
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