<b>With shades of <i>Water for Elephants </i>and <i>True Grit</i>, a stunning debut novel set in the Australian outback about a female horse thief, her bid for freedom, and the two men trying to capture her.</b><br><br><br>It is 1921. In a mountain-locked valley, Jessie is on the run.<br> <p>Born wild and brave, by twenty-six she has already lived life as a circus rider, horse and cattle rustler, and convict. But on this fateful night she is just a woman wanting to survive though there is barely any life left in her.<br> </p><p>Two men crash through the bushland, desperate to claim the reward on her head: one her lover, the other the law.<br> </p><p>But as it has always been for Jessie, it is death, not a man, who is her closest pursuer and companion. And while all odds are stacked against her, there is one who will never give up on her—her own child, who awaits her.</p>