Attention, Ballydoon singles! Get ready to mingle to find your perfect match! Ari’s love life, and work life, has been disastrous and full of scandal. In her humble opinion, love doesn’t exist, except to sell novels and movie tickets. All Ari needs is a night of rebound sex to get over her ex—no catching feelings, thank you very much—before she begins a solo road trip around Australia. What better place to find a man than the local pub’s speed dating night. And when a gorgeous man walks in with biceps and forearms that put Ari’s book boyfriends to shame, Ari hopes Mr Flexing Forearms will agree to give her what she needs. Jethro has just inherited his grandfather’s small run-down farm, after years on the road as a shearer. A speed dating night seems ideal to meet someone special. Maybe even The One. But instead, he falls for a love-sceptic who’s leaving town. When their night together turns into daily texts, calls, and speed date questions, Jet realises he’s in deep. But does Ari feel the same way, too, even though she’s thousands of kilometres away? The Longest Speed Date is a laugh out loud, long distance romance, that's steamy and sexty with a guaranteed HEA where he falls first. Get ready to fall in love, one text at a time!
Author
Louisa Duval is an Australian author who writes small town, contemporary romance set in Ballydoon, where the heroes are rugged as the landscape around them, and the stories steamier than an Aussie heat wave. Louisa has worked in radio, recruitment, education, freelance writing and corporate communications, and once traipsed around a national park looking for wombat burrows. When she isn’t working in the city, she spends as much time as possible with her family at their riverside acreage watching the wallabies and drinking the local wine. She is a proud supporter of her local rural fire brigade and hopes she will never be in the front line of a bushfire and admires those who have. She lives with her husband, two kids, a lazy cattle dog-Kelpie cross, three chickens, and many indoor plants.
