After a terrible argument with her father over their family property, Rebecca throws her kit into the back of her ute & heads north with her sheepdogs. A job as a trainee farmhand takes her into the rowdy world of country dances, Bundy rum & boys. When she at last settles down to a bit of study at agricultural college, her life is turned upside down by the very handsome, but very drunken party animal, Charlie Lewis.
Will she choose a life of wheat farming on vast open plains with Charlie? Or will she return to the mountains to fight for the land & the river that runs through her soul?
It's only when tragedy shatters her world that Rebecca finds a strength & courage she never knew she had, in this action-packed novel of adventure, dreams, heartbreak & love.