South Lies the Valley Author:Veronica Geoghegan Sweeney It is 1866 and, fleeing from heartbraking tragedy, Katherine Carron leaves Dublin in the midst of a failed rebellion to seek refuge in her native Australia. But the beautiful highlands of her homeland do not offer the sanctuary she so desperately needs. For during her five years away from her beloved country, the members of her family have gathe... more »red troubles enough of their own troubles that will all on all her reserves of strength and courage. With her parents virtually estranged, her father's business threatened, and an apparently motiveless and bloody series of murders terrifying the families who call Kangaroo Valley home, Katherine has little time for her own grief. But she cannot escape her past, nor the several men at home and abroad who have pursued her. The disturbing arrival at Barrengarry, the family homestead, of handsome, relentless, and irresistible Brendan Kelehan, late of Dublin and Boston, forces Katherine to confront herself and a small matter of missing rebel funds before the world she knows and loves best is forever lost.« less