A Long Way to Go — Una Rothwell

"It's a conspiracy of silence, Sue!"

Nick was right. Sue too had noticed the unwillingness of the locals to talk of their uncle Dryden.

Sue and her younger brother, Nick, had journeyed from England to make a new life in Australia, only to discover that their uncle Dryden had died recently in what appeared to be mysterious circumstances.

To make matters worse, their host, the powerful and attractive Rory Stevens, had somehow acquired their uncle's property--and refused to say how.