Unforgiving

It's March 2011. Our grazing property, Farnham Plains, is in pristine condition following summer rain and a record-breaking flood in the Paroo River. To look this way is rare for country in this dry, parched corner of south-west Queensland. The river is full, long strands of grass wave in the late summer breeze and cattle are fat.
Life is close to perfect for me, my husband, Mick, our twenty-one year old son, Sam and his partner, Krysta. Then tragedy strikes. Sam is run over and critically i...