Little Girl Lost

This is the first time I have read a book from Janet Cover. She is a good stories writer and I hope to read more of her work in the future. This book is based around a town Tia Welsh she works at Goongalla mine, Sargent Max Delaney who is a policeman and a little girl called Renee Haywood. Though Renee is just visiting with her family her mum and dad and big brother. Tia likes to ride am Harley-Davidson. Tia don't date her coworkers even though they keep asking her out to the pub to buy her a drink she always says no. This book has a nice flow to it and is a good read while on the beach or in the garden.

Just finished Little Girl Lost. What a great blend of suspense and romance!

I truly wish Coorah Creek was real! There are probably outback towns that are similar, but maybe not inhabited by the world's nicest people!

I was so excited when I got this ARC and couldn't wait to get started. A day later and I'm done :( And feel bereft. I so loved my time with Tia, Max, Sarah and Dan.

A child goes missing and potential romances are put on hold in order to organise a search. Janet conveys the vastness and emptiness of the outback beautifully. She contrasts light and dark so well - both in time and in people.

By the time you finish this book, you will start brushing off the red dust - everything becomes so real when you're immersed in the happenings of the Creek. And I'm always so sad to leave there.

You don't have to have read the others in the series - this works very well indeed as a standalone, but I would recommend you do read the rest as you are missing out big time!

Thanks to Choc Lit & NetGalley for an ARC in exchange for an honest review.

What on earth can I say about Coorah Creek that I haven't said in previous reviews. It is the most remarkable community of people, in the outback in Australia. Trish who runs the main bar is central to everything in life there, and is a force to be reckoned with. She knows all the gossip and is a lynchpin.

Everyone you meet in Coorah Creek, are just good people, generally honest, hard working and generous of nature and spirit. This is the fourth book set in this amazing location, but it can easily be read as a standalone novel. Through the use of recurring characters, the townspeople, you are kept up to date with the stories of the main characters of the previous books, while learning all about a host of newcomers to the town.

It is obvious that Tia has had a troubled past, but yet she is slowly trying to get to grips with life in the Outback, and working as a driver in the mine. She doesn't really trust men, and yet there is an obvious mutual fascination or attraction between herself and Max, the local Sergeant, and only cop in town.

Pete is not really a local but as a regular van delivery driver for the area, he is known in town, and remembers Sarah as a young girl, so when she arrives back in town as an adult, he is gobsmacked by her! Pete though already has a girlfriend and is always determined to do the right thing, while Sarah has discovered just how ill her father has become in the years she has been away.

The book started well and I was entirely interested in the book, and then at around 40% I became oblivious to the rest of my surroundings as I was so engrossed, right up until the last page. While the beginning was introductions to the new characters, and just getting a feeling for things, it really heats up in the middle, with high drama, feelings starting to become apparent, and all manner of revelations.

Little Girl Lost is definitely my favourite book by Janet Gover, and one I would recommend to anyone wanting something with a bit more grit than the average romance.

Thank you so much to Choc Lit and Netgalley for this review copy. This was my honest opinion.

Being lost is not easy whether you are a six or nearly 26. This story deals with finding one’s way home and was intense, heartwarming and delightful. I felt as if I were in the outback and made friends with the Coorah Creek community. GREAT story!

Tia Walsh hopes Coorah Creek will be a place she can hide and perhaps finally call home. She has been on the run for a decade. Sgt. Max Delaney. Police chief, is a strong, good, kind and giving man who is immediately attracted to Tia when he sees her. Sarah Travers has returned home after graduating from college to help out at the family store. She had a childhood crush on truck driver Pete Rankin and when they see one another again there is definitely chemistry.

Throw into the mix a city family who loses a child in the outback, a community that comes together to find her, an aboriginal man who is a super-tracker in tune with the earth and skies, a bad guy out to cause trouble, lies that are told, trust that needs to be given, a community that pulls together and you have the makings of a marvelous book.

I want to thank NetGalley and ChocLit for the free copy of this book in exchange for my honest review. This is a standalone story but I would really like to read the three previous books in the series if/when I can.

There are some fictional towns where the residents become as familiar as your own next door neighbor. Coorah Creek is one such town. This visit we’ll meet a woman desperately running from her past with no hope for a future and the lawman who may just be her every single answer. A young woman facing the very adult reality of an ill parent and taking more of the load off of their shoulders. And a man who will make one choice for all the wrong reasons and will learn that you have to do what is right even when to others it might seem selfish. Lastly, a city family taking a vacation in the wild outback, one who had no business whatsoever trying to be what they are not… country folks who know the dangers.

Tia enjoyed her job at the mine, it paid good and she was good at it. But she kept a definite space between herself and others. She was on the run from a vicious man who had killed before and wouldn’t hesitate to kill again. It was safer for her and others that she keep a distance. But in the small close knit town of Coorah Creek that wasn’t such an easy task. Especially when the local police, well the only police in town found her more than a little interesting. She’d have to keep Max at a distance too. But soon enough that would prove impossible.

Sarah had returned home after college to find her father deathly ill and her mother worried and worn down. She stepped in to take over at their store because she loved them and because she was needed here. Her dreams would wait, but maybe that knight in shining armor, the trucker she’d had a childhood crush on for years might finally see her as the grown woman she was today. Pete certainly was pleasantly surprised to find little Sarah all grown up into a beauty any man would be proud to have at his side. But that man couldn’t be him. His fate was set by a woman he didn’t love and a child who would have to come before all of their needs.

When a vacationing family comes through town on their way to the wilderness campgrounds – it’s pretty obvious to the townsfolk that this city family has no clue what they are doing out here in the outback. Father, mother and daughter and son were clearly out of their element. When the call came in a day later that the little girl was lost the people of Coorah Creek banded together to help in the search. Nothing was more important than finding that sweet child.

Little Girl Lost is an intriguing, entertaining and charming story. A return to a place where life is often a bit simpler, but not necessarily calmer than the rest of the world. Here people know you, have your back and maybe at times know a bit too much about your life. But you’d be hard pressed to find a group of people more loyal or helpful when you need them the most. Welcome to Coorah Creek.

It’s always a joy to return once more to this town with it’s gossipy Trish, and her steady husband Syd at the local hotel-pub. There is nothing that Trish does’t know or can’t find out… all with a well meaning heart. I love to run into characters from previous stories and see where they are now. We get that chance in Little Girl Lost. We also have two delightful and vastly different romances going on in town. And we’ll watch them make that perilous journey through fear, danger, heartbreak and a happy ending, finally. We’ll also be in on the tension filled search for a little girl who is lost and in great danger the longer it takes to find her. Watching the people of the town come together to help in any way possible always will warm the heart of the most cynical person around. These folks care, and they never hesitate to jump in to help because… that’s what neighbors around here do.

If you’ve never visited Coorah Creek before don’t worry you won’t be a bit lost. Mentions of the previous couples are brought up casually in conversation and those of us who have read all of their stories will recognize each one, but it won’t take a thing away from the current story. In fact it just might entice you to go and check out the earlier books.

I enjoyed Little Girl Lost very much and would highly recommend it for any Romance reader.

*I received an e-ARC of Little Girl Lost from the publisher, Choc Lit and NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. That does not change what I think of this novel.*

Well, I was disappointed when I read this book. Why? Because I found out it was book four in a series and I had missed out on the other three!

Tia is starting a new life in Coorah Creek in the outback after running from a bad situation in Brisbane. She intends to keep to herself, earn her living, and hopes to live like normal people do. Max is an honest cop, which is how he ended up in Coorah Creek. One doesn’t pull over the Minister of Police for a DUI and then refuse to expunge the citation. Sarah is returning home after university, not expecting to discover that her father is desperately ill and might not survive. Pete, several years older than Sarah and a truck driver, has always been Sarah’s knight-in-shining-armor. These four lives come together when a little girl gets lost in the outback and the entire town of Coorah Creek rallies to help with the search.

I really enjoyed reading Little Girl Lost. I loved the town of Coorah Creek and how the community pulls together. It reminded me of old books and movies in which people are generally good. The kind of town that Frank Capra might have imagined if he were doing movies in the Australian Outback.

As with most of the other CHOC LIT novels that I have been fortunate enough to read lately, there is a lot of story to go along with the romance and you really won’t find yourself bored. As the search for the missing little girl was going on, I was literally flicking page after page.

The characters are well done, with none ringing a false note. While I liked that both Max and Pete were the type of men to always do the right thing, even when it might have been the wrong thing, Pete’s situation struck me as a tad martyrish and I mentally applauded Sarah when she called him on it. (Hmmm….how is that for offering commentary without spoilers?)

If you like heartwarming and engrossing romances about good people, Little Girl Lost is a good bet.

Now I have to read the other books in the series. Oh, yes, this can be read as a standalone book, but if you fall in love with Coorah Creek, you probably want to read all of them.

4 1/2 star review

Two romances and a search for a lost child all in one amazing story, Little Girl Lost by Janet Gover. Fourth in the series but really the books can be read in any order. So if this is the first one that you pick up to read, you will meet the rest of the Coorah Creek Community but you will fit right into the story. And “fit right in” is a true image of reading this novel because for the time that you are reading this book you are transported to the Australian Outback.

Lost and finding one’s way home is the theme and not just for the child. Ms. Gover writes so that this place come alive and the people who live there seem real like neighbors actually. Tia and Max along with Sarah and Pete had me rooting for them to find the strength needed to take a chance on love. Of course, catching up with everyone else is an extra bonus. However, no place is perfect and there is a bad guy lurking around.

Small town life and romance Outback style. Love this series and love this book. Little Lost Girl. Now how in the world is Janet Gover going to top this story?

I was rooting for Tia, Max, Sara, and Pete to all have their well deserved happy endings in this well written and entertaining romance. What was even better was the chance to visit Coorah Creek. Loved the descriptions of the outback, which has always been fascinating to me. THanks to netgalley for the ARC and to Choclit for bringing Australian books to the US market.

Janet Gover has done it again!!!

I loved The Wild One and reading Little Girl Lost and going back to Coorah Creek is like visiting old friends. Characters I know and love pop into the story but the main focus is on Tia Walsh, Max Delaney, Sarah Travers and Peter Rankin.

Tia is working on the Goongalla Mines and trying to escape a dark past. She is broken but strong. Max was a big city cop transferred to outback Coorah Creek as punishment for sticking by his morals. He has high morals and a kind heart. Sarah is back in Coorah Creek as her father is ill. Will she stay or will the big city call her back? Peter is a truck driver who believes in doing the right thing only sometimes the right thing can be wrong for everyone.

What I love about Janet Gover’s stories is that the characters are such real people with problems and dreams that I can relate to.

Gover’s stories have a wonderful recurring theme of communities coming together in times of tragedy and for a common cause. In this story the town comes together when a little girl is lost in the national park.

Little Girl Lost has multiple storylines that interweave to produce a feel good novel that evokes many emotions and is very hard to put down.

Recommended for readers that enjoy their romance with a little mystery and suspense.

Great book from beginning to the end. The book had suspense, romance, and a great story line. I loved the fact that it took place in Australia. The author transported me to the surroundings of the story with her writing. I would not hesitate to recommend this book and any future writing to my book club.

Oh how I loved, loved, loved this book! Janet Gover never fails to deliver with her heart-wrenching and beautifully delivered tales of Coorah Creek, and Little Girl Lost is no exception.

First off, I read this in about five hours one evening. I knew if I started it I wouldn't put it down until I had finished, and I was fine with that, so I chose an evening where I didn't have work the next day. A Coorah Creek novel always means an evening locked away reading. Second off, I finished this and then couldn't sleep because I kept thinking about the characters, the place, the story. I was obsessed.

Little Girl Lost is told from the view of four different characters. Tia, Max, Sarah and Pete all have one thing in common, Coorah Creek is a town that is hard to shake from your blood. Only Sarah is native to the town, so it was great to see her perspective after returning after years at college, and to see how it differed from Tia, who at first can't take to the friendliness of the close-knit community without fear. A delivery driver Pete who always loves when one of his deliveries calls for a trip to Coorah Creek, and Max who has happily made the place his home, despite having had different plans for his future. I connected to each character on such a deep level, and loved seeing Tia and Max, and Sarah and Pete grow closer in their own ways, and how they had to overcome personal issues of all kinds to find happiness.

Seeing the town members band together to help find a missing girl was one of my favourite sections of the book. You could see through the masks that all the characters usually wear, as they let down their own defences all to help an outsider family. To see this family grow closer because of the ordeal was equally heartwarming!

I also adored the undertone throughout the novel of the main character being the town. Janet Gover beautifully portrays the town as the mother of all who shelter there, and it is this that makes me want to revisit it time and time again through these books.

With a host of great secondary characters who fellow series lovers will recognise, reading Little Girl Lost really is like coming home again.

5 Stars!

*Review copy kindly provided by the publisher through Netgalley in exchange for an honest review*

I should know better by now than to read a series in order when I am reviewing them, it makes it much harder to separate them for the purpose of review. But, I couldn’t help it. Books 2 and 3 were both sitting on my tablet waiting for me and I had a little bit of time to sneak them in…so I did.

Little Girl Lost takes us back to Coorah Creek to spend some more time with all the locals we have grown to love, and introduces us to some new characters along the way.

Max Delaney is the only police officer in town, transferred from a city position after showing a little bit too much integrity. He’s now growing to love his new role in the sleepy little town of Coorah Creek, okay so there’s not a lot for him to do really except pull over the occasional drunk driver but he is growing to love the sense of community and the sense of family in the town.

Sarah Travers is Coorah Creek born and bred but she’s been away to university, now that’s graduated she’s home for a visit; only to discover her dad’s not well. Four years in the city has shown her that there’s a big wide world out there just begging to be explored but now that she’s home she might just stay.

Tia Walsh is brand new to town, she’s just taken a job at the mine and is the only woman on site. She keeps to herself and is distancing herself from everyone though she is certainly the talk of the town. Coorah Creek doesn’t get many petite, gorgeous women riding big Harleys and driving mining machinery.

Pete Rankin is a road train driver working out of Mt Isa who has been driving the Coorah Creek run for more than a decade. He is a good guy who is always ready to help out where he can.

These four characters come into the limelight in Little Girl Lost when a city family head into town for a camping holiday in Tyangi National Park. Renee Haywood is a six year old girl who wanders away from the motorhome in the park and the entire town come together to try and find her.

Little Girl Lost tells of the small town sense of community when everyone comes together to do what they can in a time of need, even when it is not for one of their own. No-one wants to think of a 6 yr old girl missing in the harsh outback. The way the town bands together allows people to see a new side of the town and to find a sense of belonging they may otherwise have been missing.

It couldn’t be a story of Tyangi Nationa Park without Dan, Quinn, Justin and Carrie who all do their bit to help out with the search. We also see a little more of Jack, Ellen, Adam and Jess; and the host of characters we’ve grown to know.

Once more Gover has brought together four characters facing challenges, I was going to put it differently but it’s only really Tia running from her past in this one. Sarah and Pete have some very real present challenges that were not what they signed up for but it’s a little different to what we’ve seen in previous volumes.

Little Girl Lost is all about second chances, belonging and that sense of home you find when things are right. A heart-warming story of the bumpy path to love.

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This is a brilliant story and worth reading. It is the fourth story in the Coorah Creek Series and works very well as a standalone book. Coorah Creek is a small outback town in Australia. Tia is escaping her past and gets a job driving trucks at the local mine. She meets Police Sergeant Max and for the first time in years, lets her guard down and falls in love with him. When a young girl goes missing the whole town gathers to find her. Tia helps with the search little knowing that the publicity will bring her past to Coorah Creek. The characters in this story are amazing, so much so that felt I wanted to live in Coorah Creek.

Two women arrive at Coorah Creek, a small isolated town in the outback of Australia. Tia is a woman attempting to escape her past. Sarah is a woman who has to face family troubles of the present. As they try to settle into their new jobs within the community and face their problems, new friendships are made as love finds them in the form of two men, Max and Pete. Then a little girl goes missing..

This is book 4 of the Coorah Creek series. It is a contemporary romance, which can be read on its own or out of order from the others. Gover gives us two romances for the price of one, yet neither story is watered down. Each romance is gently built and believable. When both couples find themselves working together to find a young girl who has gone missing, the two stories effortlessly come together.

Little Girl Lost is a lovely, clean romance, which brings the dry heat of the Australian outback into your living room and keeps you turning the pages with concern that Tia’s past is going to come back to haunt her. This is a romance with a little mystery and thriller mixed in, but at its heart is the community of Coorah Creek, which Gover describes so well that you feel you too could visit the local watering hole, order a burger and chat to them all as if they were your friends too. Well worth a read.

This is a brilliant story and worth reading. It is the fourth story in the Coorah Creek Series and works very well as a standalone book. Coorah Creek is a small outback town in Australia. Tia is escaping her past and gets a job driving trucks at the local mine. She meets Police Sergeant Max and for the first time in years, lets her guard down and falls in love with him. When a young girl goes missing the whole town gathers to find her. Tia helps with the search little knowing that the publicity will bring her past to Coorah Creek. The characters in this story are amazing, so much so that felt I wanted to live in Coorah Creek.