According to an article in The Sydney Morning Herald in 1984 “Devotees are continually ringing the station to find out what will happen in the next three weeks as they have to know, or they can’t go on holiday”.
The books were sold in all major and most independent bookstores nationally, including Angus & Robertson, Dymocks and Collins, with Line and Way going into reprint due to popular demand, selling just shy of 20,000 copies each.
Nineteen-year-old Carlotta Clemens leaves her dearest friend and the safety of their home in Brisbane to take a job as governess on a remote Queensland cattle station.
The company flourishes, and with the help of corrupt politician Simon Summers, they secure the New South Wales mail contracts to subsidise expansion.
Determined to expose him, Lottie arrives in Toowoomba on his wedding day, only to be savagely assaulted and left in no doubt as to Jack's deadly intentions should she get in his way ever again.
Between 2 February 2009 and 16 November 2011, the serial was broadcast as part of the Bob Rogers Show on 2CH in Sydney,[2] and until 9 October 2013 on Nightline with Bruce & Phil on 3AW in Melbourne.