Lost in Kakadu by Kendall Talbot is an Australian jungle-set action adventure suspense thriller with strong romantic elements, or a romantic suspense thriller with strong action adventure elements, depending on how you look at it, free courtesy of publisher Harlequin's Escape imprint.
The Amazon blurb says that this was quote-unquote "Winner of the 2014 Romance Writers of Australia RUBY (Romantic Book of the Year) Award for Stories with Romantic Elements!", so presumably it's not a dedicated "pure" category romance.
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Description
An action adventure novel set in the Australian jungle where two unlikely people prove just how attractive opposites can be...
It’s pretentious socialite Abigail Mulholland’s worst nightmare when her plane crashes into an ancient Australian wilderness. Things go from bad to downright hellish when rescuers never come. As she battles to survive in an environment that’s as brutal as it is beautiful, Abigail finds herself also fighting her unlikely attraction to Mackenzie — another survivor, and a much younger man.
Mackenzie Steel is devastated by his partner’s death in the crash, the only person with whom he shared his painful past. Now, as he confronts his own demons, he finds he has a new battle on his hands: his growing feelings for Abigail, a woman who’s as frustratingly naïve as she is funny.
Fate brought them together, but they’ll need more than luck to escape Kakadu alive. Could the letters of a dead man hold the key to their survival?