James's Outback Love

James Rigon is the senior pilot and supervisor at the Flying Doctor base in Bourke.

He's a trauma doctor and paramedic who has spent twelve years flying into storms and landing on dirt strips in the dark. He grew up watching his mother wait for a man who worked dawn to dark and decided long ago that no woman should have to wait for him.

Then a Saturday supply run ends at the Saltbush Café, where a new waitress is losing a battle with Bev's coffee machine.

Penny Ashcroft is a primary school teacher who grew up in Vaucluse, and she's turned her back on the life her wealthy parents planned for her.

She works weekends to buy books for children who have never owned one and has no intention of returning to Sydney. Her mother, a Macquarie Street Gynaecologist, and father, a Supreme Court judge, have other ideas.

When her parents fly into town, James gets a glimpse of the world Penny came from and steps back before she has to choose. Penny is left to find her voice on her own.

When a brown snake in a shed full of junk nearly costs James his life, they both learn what matters most.

A story of second chances, stubborn hearts, and a back step that faces west.