Burning Fields by Alli Sinclair is an historical literary fiction novel with f/m romantic elements, free for a limited time courtesy of publisher Kensington’s Lyrical Press imprint.
This is Barnes & Noble’s featured Free Fridays selection for the weekend, and this ebook edition contains bonus material about the author’s inspiration for the novel.
The story is a personal drama set in North Queensland in 1948, as a woman returning from volunteering for the war effort is determined to salvage her family’s sugarcane farm despite opposition from those set in old-fashioned ways, who becomes attracted to an Italian immigrant at a neighbouring farm who becomes the target of lingering wartime tensions as his past is exposed and she discovers family secrets of her own.
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