Along the Ribbonwood Track

Craig Armstrong was determined to get rid of Joanna Jarden, even before he met her. Craig figured that Joanne had ignored her grandfather all her twenty years on the earth, then when he died she was there ready to collect on her inheritance. Only the only thing she was intitled to was a waste-land farm, a few battered sheep, some tattered cows and a spoiled pony. Each time Joanne asked for help or advice, Craig's stuck needle in a grove advise was sell the farm, and go home. Then Craig found out that Joanne had no idea she had a Grandfather, until he wrote her and asked her to come to see him. Joanne's father John and her grandfather had exchanged bitter words and stopped talking with one another before John married her mother, Craig also discovered Joanne had been brought up in foster homes, Craig always did everything in his power to keep her from going hungry or be hurt in any way. Then when Joanne was finally convinced she had no option but to sell her farm, Craig declined to buy it... Now he had other ideas. From the back of the book: '"You were advised not to come," Craig had told Joanne when she arrived at the New Zealand farm she had inherited, to which she had replied, "I was never madly good at taking advice." It was obvoius that Craig was going to do his best to make Joanne sell out, but something made her equally determined to stay.'