Susan Mackie grew up on dairy farms in Victoria and then New South Wales (Australia); believed all kids had chores to do; rode horses and motorbikes, mustered and fed cattle, drove tractors and built cubby houses in hay stacks.After working in three major cities and four rural regions Susan now lives, loves and writes in the small city of Warwick, Queensland.Meggie and Max is the fourth in the Barrington series; a follow up to her successful novels Charlie's Will and a Place to Start Over and her first Novella - Love in the Ragged Mountain Ranges (Originally published in the Love in a Sunburnt Land anthology).