Rebecca Carson has only recently learned that her Uncle Howard was killed in a car accident. She’s been named as beneficiary in his will and now owns Emma Springs, an Australian cattle station. It adjoins Mandaljara Station, another cattle station which is owned by Hunter Kincaid, the man Rebecca harshly betrayed more than a decade earlier. When Hunter offers to buy her property, Rebecca sees an opportunity to right the wrong of her past. She goes to Australia with the hopes of straightening things out with Hunter. But Hunter, having been burned so badly, doesn’t seem to want anything from Rebecca except an opportunity for revenge. And, Hunter has moved on with his life. He’s now engaged to be married and seems unmoved by Rebecca’s attempts at reconciliation.

Come, Love Me Again is one of the most emotionally packed stories I’ve read in a while. The exchanges between Rebecca and Hunter are powerful and sometimes gut wrenching. Their emotions are so raw and open that it is impossible not to feel them. Ms. Hilliger has portrayed the setting for this story in vivid detail, also. It fairly leaps off the page, and the cattle stations and the surrounding countryside are so vividly described that I could see everything in my mind. I felt like I stepped off the plane with the heroine and experienced everything she did. I was moved to tears by some of Hunter’s harshness toward her, especially when she tries to explain why she left him. This is a realistic story, and I enjoyed it very much.

Reviewed by: Marlene