When twenty-five-year-old journalist, Zara Ellison receives her mother’s ominous text, Call me when you can, Zara knows it’s not good news.

Two weeks afterwards, Zara has still left her much-loved city life to relocate to Barker, the sleepy country town in which she grew up. For Zara, family members comes first.

But she needs to work too, as well as the town’s police force is a rural journalist’s best source of information. Meeting Detective Dave Burrows and Dave’s second-in-charge, Mature Constable Jack port Higgins, is important.

Amid her family’s troubles, and reporting on farming accidents and violently clashing activists, Zara is shocked to witness Jack Higgins in a role she’d never have believed. How could he probably justify this? And that which was she likely to do about it?

Wrapped in the appreciate of family, friendship, crime and mystery, Starting From Now is another convincing novel in the authentic tone of voice of Fleur McDonald.