Close To Home

A rural women's fiction novel where a veterinary emergency brings on a homecoming years in the making, and an outbreak threatens livelihoods on every side. Heartfelt Australian small-town drama of estranged family, slow-burn connection and hard-earned healing.Returning home might save the town but could cost her everything.Orphaned as a teenager, veterinarian Charlie Anderson built a life on her own terms far from the fractured family she left behind in the rural town of Naringup.But when a suspected Hendra virus outbreak draws her back to Naringup, Charlie is forced to face the very past she thought she'd escaped.Returning means confronting the people she walked away from: a cousin she left behind, an aunt whose choices shattered her world, and a tangle of grief and resentment she s kept buried for years.As panic over the outbreak grows, Charlie teams up with local ranger Joel Drummond whose easy warmth and unruly family offer a glimpse of the connection she s longed for.When tensions reach breaking point, Charlie must decide: will she find the courage to heal old wounds, or walk away for good and risk losing the only family she has left?Close to Home is a standalone novel in The Homecoming Collection an emotionally layered, page-turning story of family, resilience, and the ties that pull us back home.Praise for Close to Home:????? Couldn t put it down.????? Brilliant.????? A wonderful story.????? A heartfelt story about family, forgiveness, healing the past and hoping for the future.????? Well written and researched.????? Pamela Cook has raised the bar . A must read!