Her long skirt and petticoats hampered every move, but she dared not take them off in case they were found and showed her direction. There had to be.Įlizabeth stumbled and fell again. Surely, if she could follow this path south she would reach the track that led back down the range, back to the coast, back to the port where their long slow journey westward had begun. She prayed that by dawn she would be far, far away from them. Her heart thundering in her ears, Elizabeth ran on through the dappled darkness along the lonely track. Had they discovered she was gone from camp and were following her? An owl hooted its haunting sound.ĭread knotted her stomach. Did someone move within them? The chill creeping down her spine told her there was something more.Īll around her the bush shimmered with the movements of unseen creatures. Dragging air back into her aching lungs, she scrambled to her feet.Įlizabeth stared back along the track, straining to see into the shadows made by the trees in the moonlit night. What will happen when the waters recede?Įlizabeth’s rasping breath thundered in the clear night air.
Walter and Elizabeth fall in love while Elizabeth’s brother and her ‘fiancé’ camp on the other side of the flooded river. His isolated life is shattered by the arrival of Elizabeth Chesterfield, a young woman determined to escape an arranged marriage being forced on her by her scheming brother. This novella tells the story of reclusive bachelor, Walter Jamison, who runs a struggling north Queensland pastoral station he desperately wants to turn into a paying concern. Love at Lost Lagoons is the third novella in the linked series Stations of the Heart, set in outback Australia in the 19th century. It can be read as a standalone story or after Lord Muck and Lady Alice and Love and Other Addictions.
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