Stella's Short Reads | Stella Quinn Author

Stella's Short Reads:
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The Christmas Cake War

HQ Fiction

July 2026

a novella

(First published in the anthology A Country Practice Christmas in 2025)

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EBOOK ISBN: 978-1038998101

AMAZON ASIN: B0H9X2NCDZ

A Christmas story about one of the country practices that lie at the heart of small towns, from favourite Australian author Stella Quinn.

Physiotherapist Jodie is in Clarence to help her great-aunt Carol move into an aged care home. But Jodie didn't count on Carol's dispute with the president of Clarence Gardens' residents' association. Jodie will have to team up with local publican Will, the boy who once saved her life and crushed her heart, to defuse the feud before it explodes into all-out war. Jodie doesn't believe in happy endings, but perhaps Clarence has its own kind of magic ...

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Christmas at Yindi Creek

HQ Fiction

July 2025

a novella

(First published in the anthology A Country Farm Christmas in 2022)

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EBOOK ISBN: 978-1038957740

AMAZON ASIN: B0DW13V1LN

A heartwarming novella from bestselling Australian author Stella Quinn about finding love on the farm this Christmas.

WINNER - 2025 Ruby Award for Novella from Romance Writers of Australia (RWA)

Angela arrives in Yindi Creek desperate to restore her late mother's opal earring only to discover the opal dealers are closed for the summer. Robbie spends his days with his sheep, determinedly not looking at the white cross planted by the gates of his property. But the meddlesome locals reckon he's grieved long enough, and it doesn't take them long to hatch a devious (but romantic!) plan ...

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A Cattledog for Christmas

HQ Fiction

July 2024

a novella

{First published in the anthology A Country Vet Christmas in 2021)

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EBOOK ISBN: 978-1038918451

AMAZON ASIN: B0CW1F9MKY

A small-town Hanrahan novella, award runner-up for 2023's ARRA Favourite Short Romance

Travelling vet Elliot comes to Hanrahan as a Christmas locum. If hardworking supermum Sandy had time for a bloke (which she doesn't) she'd be choosing a keeper, not some charming rogue who has a lifelong habit of never sticking around. But a seemingly untrainable cattle dog just might bring them together.

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All I Want

Jellyfish Press

October 2020

a short story

(Set in the USA)

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EBOOK ISBN: 978-0648693543

AMAZON ASIN: B08DMDH6RT

A Christmas short story from bestselling author Stella Quinn set in USA.

Meet Adam, metalwork artist and New York darling, who’s so worried he’s burned out he accepts an offer from his godmother to forge a replica ancient bell for an historical society’s building renovation project in Upstate New York. All he wants is peace, and no deadlines, so he can rediscover his artist’s spark.

Meet Prue, fastidious and punctual university lecturer and student of early American architecture. Her future depends on her finishing her thesis. Lucky for her, the bell tower renovation project she’s writing her last piece on is almost finished. All she wants is to see the bell installed, so she can be on her way to secure her future.

Too bad they can’t both get what they want ...

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The Umbrella Diaries

Jellyfish Press

August 2020

a short story

(Set in the USA)

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EBOOK ISBN: 978-0648693505

AMAZON ASIN: B08BZ7ZQB1

A Spring short story from bestselling author Stella Quinn set in USA.

Duncan needs a hero -- he just isn’t expecting her to turn up on his front porch under a tattered red umbrella.

Marianne needs a new venue for her dance school to escape the unwanted attentions of a creepy groundsman, so the For Let advertisement in the newspaper seems like a lucky omen. Enquiries to 241 Hope Street, Clementine Springs, between four and five pm, today only.

She plucks an umbrella from the stand in the hallway and sets off to make her enquiry. Her dance school business means everything to her; since the injury which destroyed her career, it’s the only dream for her future she has left. And today, she’s feeling lucky.

Duncan doesn’t leave his house. Not today, not yesterday, not since he left the hospital all those months ago with steel pins holding his leg together and the words of a dying teenager imprinted forever on his brain.

Turns out, he doesn’t mind living grumpy and alone in his big old house. At least, that’s what he’s been telling himself.

But then one day a young ballet teacher knocks on his door and pirouettes her way straight into his heart. Duncan’s going to have to find the courage to forgive himself if he wants a chance at living in the world again. And now he’s got a reason to try.