Down Among the Dead Men
About this ebook
loves, so Caitlyn ventures into the rough, tough world of the Australian opal fields. After
rescuing a teenager from an attempted assault she learns that the girl, Max, is her half-sister.
Their father is missing and suspected of stealing opals – an activity that could place both Max
and Caitlyn in danger. Attempting to locate their father without alerting the police, Caitlyn
enlists the help of Dale, a city lawyer turned lapidary, hiding out in the town to protect his
daughter from death threats. Together they investigate, but progress is slow until Caitlyn
stumbles upon a link between her father and organised crime, and into an investigation by the
Federal Police.
After offering herself as the go-between in a ‘sting', Caitlyn realises that she's put Dale's life
at risk and in order to save him, she does the one thing she's sworn never to do. She battles
crippling claustrophobia to descend into the darkness of an underground opal mine where her
father's dead body is lying. With the criminals either arrested or dead, Caitlyn accepts that
she's found more than she went looking for. She's fallen in love with Dale, but there's no
way he'd consider moving back to the city, not when a move would expose his daughter to
danger. He doesn't ask her to stay so she makes a new life for herself and her sister in
Adelaide...until the death of the man threatening his family allows Dale to confess his
feelings for her.
About the author
Claire Baxter writes contemporary romantic fiction of all lengths. Her short stories have been
published in commercial women's magazines around the world, while her novels have been
translated into 20 languages, and have been nominated for the Romance Writers of Australia's
Romantic Book of the Year Award, the Booksellers' Best Awards, the RT Book Reviews Reviewers'
Choice Awards, and the Cataromance Reviewers' Choice Awards (winner, Best Harlequin Romance).
Before following her passion to write full-time, Claire was an award-winning corporate
communications manager. Earlier, she worked as a translator and a PA.
Claire grew up in Warwickshire, England, but for more than 20 years has called Australia home. She
considers herself lucky to live near one of Adelaide's beautiful metropolitan beaches where she
loves to walk and think up stories.
