Please join us in welcoming visiting author Lucy Lever to our library on Tuesday 22nd August at 4.30pm for a chat with Leanne.

Lucy Lever is a former social worker who lives in the bush on Sydney’s coastal fringe with her husband. Lucy makes frequent visits to family on the NSW north coast, where she found the inspiration for her first novel, a rural rom com set in an alternative small community. Lucy has published a short story in Tracks surfing magazine and has been included in several literary anthologies, such as the Art and Words project on Sydney’s northern beaches. She has written features for magazines Sydney’s Child, Mother and Baby and industry publication The Professional. She has also contributed to online daily news service Workplace Express.

MYSTIC RIDGE

Sparkling rural romance meets quirky rom-com in this delightful debut story of love, magic and fighting for home.

Perfect for readers who love Rachael Johns and Alissa Callen Is love on the cards? Reading the tarot is in Claire’s blood. It’s a gift she inherited from her late mother. But her genius in helping others discover their path fails her when it comes to finding her own, especially once she learns of plans to bulldoze her carefully regenerated rainforest home and build a high-end wellness centre. She vows to rally her small community and save Mystic Ridge, although she has no idea where to start… Perhaps her first port of call should be the local newspaper, but after a fake-dating misadventure with the ne editor, Leo, rising tensions – and chemistry – get in the way. Meanwhile, her old love, soapie actor Jake, promises to help protect her home. Yet Claire suspects his loyalties lie elsewhere, and she doesn’t know who to trust anymore.

Will Claire find the courage to fight for the rainforest, her family and her chance at love? With a colourful ensemble of small-town characters, and a dash of ghostly intervention, Mystic Ridge offers surprises at every turn.