This book started well with a good idea for a story. Two people do a life swap and document it for a year for a magazine. So Hayley, an American with a busy life, 2 jobs and a tiny apartment is sent to be a Jillaroo – a trainee on an Australian cattle station. Quite a few miles from anywhere.
She finds it quite hard to settle in but works hard and tries everything.
Predictably she gets together with the other lesbian on site. So far there are very few laughs. But it is interesting.
Now I have tried to shear a sheep. On an Australian cattle station. And I would not like to be spending a year doing it now. It is hard.
She can’t ride a horse and is frightened of them. She watched her mum die after being hit by a runaway horse. She doesn’t tell anyone this and they make fun of her.
So you are just waiting for this little bit of info to pop up so they can feel bad about it.

She has to perform CPR on the cook – that also is not a fun thing to do. I’ve had a go at that too – not in Australia though. It was not a nice thing to do. And it didn’t work. I’m hoping not to need to do that again.
This brings in the Flying Doctor – and it of course just happens to be an American lesbian from another of Cheyenne Blue’s books – I’ll review those later.
I like it when characters I know reappear – they are familiar and I don’t require much effort to remember them.
This is the point where she tells them about her mum and the runaway horse.
Predictably the scheme ends early and she has to return to America – her life swap partner lied. She was a trust fund baby who was just trying out the Jilleroo life and now had painted the American’s apartment purple, got sacked from Hayley’s job and run off to make films.
Hayley goes back to her previous life and finds she doesn’t fit in anymore.
So, she hops on a plane and goes back for her girlfriend – and they live happily ever after.

The End.