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Cross My Heart

By Pamela Cook
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Tessa De Santis's orderly life is upended when she must foster her late friend Skye's daughter, Grace. Moving to an isolated property, Tess uncovers a buried secret and faces a choice that could either mend the past or destroy her future. Cross My Heart is a... Read More
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A promise kept means a life is broken

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Tessa De Santis's orderly life is upended when she must foster her late friend Skye's daughter, Grace. Moving to an isolated property, Tess uncovers a buried secret and faces a choice that could either mend the past or destroy her future.

Cross My Heart is a haunting tale of guilt, redemption, and friendship.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781036710231

Publisher: Vinci Books

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 02 December 2025

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Vinci Books

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 153.0mm

Height: 234.0mm

Weight: 306g

Pages: 288

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About the Author

Pamela Cook is a beloved and respected Australian author, podcaster, writing teacher and mentor. Her best-selling debut novel Blackwattle Lake (2012) was published by Hachette Australia in 2012 followed by three rural fiction titles. Her latest releases Cross My Heart (2019) and All We Dream (2020) have taken her writing in an exciting new direction.


Pamela writes page-turning contemporary women's fiction, delving deep into the psychology of her characters and the complexity of relationships in all their forms. She explores the impact of trauma, grief and generational conflict, drawing on the resilience and courage she finds in inspirational women. Her writing is imbued with a deep love of the natural world and its power to heal.

Producing and hosting Writes4Women, a weekly podcast that supports women writers and celebrates women's writing, is one of Pamela's not-so-guilty pleasures. She is also a Writer Ambassador for Room To Read, a not-for-profit organisation promoting literacy and gender equality in developing countries.

An experienced teacher, Pamela tutors at Writing NSW and the Australian Writers' Centre and loves to mentor emerging authors. When she's not writing or reading, she wastes as much time as possible riding her handsome quarter horse Baloo, hanging out with her family and menagerie of animals on her dream-come-true rural property in the beautiful Illawarra region of NSW, and dreaming of a road trip in Virginia, her vintage caravan.

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