Dark Horse

An ambitious bank manager and a former underworld enforcer are all that stand in the way of a corrupt business owner and a violent motorcycle gang.

Maria Henderson loves her life in Sydney and her hard-charging banking career. But when her ex steals a coveted promotion, her employer rubs salt in the wound by sending her to a rural town to straighten out its bad loans. Desperate to earn back favour, she embarks on a path that puts her in the firing line of the locals — both the hardworking and the dangerous.

Seeking to leave his criminal days behind, Tony Carpenter teaches boxing and helps troubled youth at a run-down gym. But all he built is threatened when his former bike gang rolls into town with an offer too good to refuse.

'The Banker of Brooksdale' is a moving first novel that is at once a story of redemption, love, and the will to never give up in the face of hardship and struggle.