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Kerry Allyne
Also known as: Julia Phyllis Crabtree, Kerry Allyne
Julia Phyllis Crabtree was born in England, UK. Her early childhood was uneventful, she remembered, until her father came home one day and began talking about emigrating to Australia. When they eventually arrived in Australia, Kerry took to her new land with a passion. During the family's first years "down under," she explored as much of the country as she could, journeying northward into Queensland and out onto the Great Barrier Reef, and sometimes south through New South Wales into Victoria. As a adult she returned to England for a short time. A long working holiday enabled her to travel the world before returning to Australia where she met her engineer husband-to-be, and they had a couple of kids. The family eventually moved to a rural area and she started to write. She used the people and countryside as inspiration for her romances. She was published by Mills & Boon from 1976 to 1994 as Kerry Allyne.
Most acclaimed
Beneath Wimmera skies
Mallory said goodbye to the glamorous life Being an international model had lost its appeal. She wanted only to go home--to Avalon, the family farm in Australia. Then she discovered, if she wanted to stay there, she'd have to manage the place on her own. But, there was a major obstacle: Bren Dalton, the insolent representative of the corporation who owned the farm. He refused her application on the grounds that as a woman she was not capable of real management responsibility. His arrogant assumptions made Mallory furious, but she was certain she could change his mind... .
Coral cay
He didn't deserve to know he was a father Ravelle had hoped for a quiet pleasant holiday in Queensland, on the Barrier Reef with her fiance, Matthew. But somehow that wasn't to be.... One of the first people Ravelle saw there was none other than Steele Cunningham, the man who had so ruthlessly rejected her love four years earlier. And the memories of their encounter came flooding back. Suddenly Ravelle's proposed new life seemed threatened. Steele had ruined her life once and could easily do it again--if he discovered her secret!
Losing battle
2929 Men were not to be trusted! — Adair had learned that from experience. She had built a wall around herself to exclude all men, and she ensured their lack of attention by deliberately making herself dowdy and unattractive. — Thane Callahan, a rancher visiting her small rural town in Central Queensland, saw through her disguise, though, and began an assault that stirred all her senses. When Adair resisted, determined not to become one of his conquests, he withdrew. "You'd rather hide from life than live it," Thane accused. Then Adair discovered the true meaning of heartbreak and loneliness.