MARY WEAVES MAGIC WITH WORDS. ROMANTIC, FUNNY, BIGGER-THAN-LIFE CHARACTERS TAKE YOU ON A WHIRLWIND JOURNEY TO A PERFECT ENDING. Dianne Price, Author of Seahedge, Shadowtide, and Proud Captive / In a world that might have been / Snatched by coldblooded enemies as a declaration of war, Eleanor Williamston finds herself caught in a deadly snaremiles from home and lost in the wilderness. Her heart is drawn to the handsome palace guardsman who rescues her, but is torn when he challenges her political idealsand then reveals something hes kept hidden that will make her choice even more difficult. Marsten longs for a God-fearing wife, but cannot marry the lady he desires. The sassy young schoolteacher he rescues catches his eye, but he fears shell turn out to be like the beautiful women whove broken his trust in the past. Journey with them through the spectacular but treacherous Aspian Mountains while they evade enemy pursuit and wrestle through the challenges of wilderness and budding love, only to run headlong into Ellies anti-royalist familyand a whole new onslaught of foes. AN UNFORGETTABLE JOURNEYTHE CHARACTERS COME ALIVE IN A RIVETING STORY WOVEN WITH RICHLY CRAFTED LANGUAGE. Michael K. Brown, Atlanta Writers Club VERY ENJOYABLE TO READ! Jane Simerman, American Christian Fiction Writers
The story is a sequel to "The Four Elizabeths" and tells how the women convicts of the First Fleet in 1788, fought to survive in what is now, Australia. The convicts and prostitutes, knew nothing about their destination, except it was the other side of the world. But they hadn't expected the totally undeveloped country, nor that the men would have to spend the first two weeks erecting tents and temporary buildings. The day the women were allowed onshore, there was sexual debauchery and mayhem, but Elizabeth Powley, the original gang-leader, had no intention of joining in, knowing she was pregnant. The father may have been the Irish convict she'd loved before he died, or the Captain of Marines she'd seduced in his cabin. That first year in the new country proved to be full of challenge, danger, and trauma for all, including Elizabeth Powley, as trouble followed her, defying her to achieve the happiness she so longed for.
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