Tales from the Hart - where romance blooms.
FJ HART
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Luxury meets the land, hearts tangle… and desire is always in season.
The forecast is steamy in the Southern Highlands of New South Wales, Australia! Welcome to the Gilded Gardens Collection, a romantic escape series set where opulent estates collide with rugged Aussie charm… and passion grows wild. This series blends romantic women’s fiction with slow-burn contemporary romance.
From manicured hedges and garden parties to rounding up the cattle, it’s a feast for the senses—where love is bold, slow-burning, and as unpredictable as the weather.
Set against the breathtaking backdrop of the Australian Southern Highlands in NSW—famous for autumn colour, spring bulbs, European-inspired gardens, and heritage estates contrasted by farmlands and native flora and fauna—this series celebrates everything we love about rural romance.
Add in rustic wineries, charming villages, truffle hunts, horses, a dash of scandal and secrets behind every stone wall.... and you’ve got the ultimate sensual escape.
Think glamour and grit, horses and hunks, ringers and romance.
Series Tropes You’ll Love:
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Forced proximity
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Opposites attract
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Second chances
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Secret pasts
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Workplace tension
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Grumpy-sunshine
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Small town, country setting
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Slow burn, high heat
If you love strong heroines, broody Aussie heroes, and emotional chemistry blooming beneath the surface—you’re in the right garden.
The Author
A storyteller inspired by passion and beauty.
F.J. Hart's childhood was spent creating elaborate illustrated books and poems reflecting her main passion growing up - magnificent horses - with spirit and more than a little drama. She went on to study journalism and science before completing a PhD in behavioural psychology, publishing across health and lifestyle medicine. But it was fiction that kept calling—tales of sizzling chemistry and resilience, passion and possibility, set amid beauty and grit.
Now a University lecturer, Hart is based on a horse and cattle farm in the Southern Highlands of New South Wales, and writes contemporary romance and women's fiction, infused with nature, grounded emotion, and a vivid sense of place.
Her new series, The Gilded Gardens Collection, captures this world in full bloom across the seasons—lush, emotional, and tangled with tension.
