Australian Colonial Romance set in Victorian Era Parramatta. Of convict stock, the Lockley Family set an example for others. They work hard and help everyone they can. Lives are turned around and friendships forged.
DIAMONDS, LOVE AND MONEY but there's much more to life. Luke, the youngest Lockley son, has completed University, and his life has no direction. No job, no money and no love. Desperately alone, he prays for guidance, and his brother Wills turns up with a suggestion. Reverend William Clarke needs assistance on a Government Mineral Survey. Would Luke be interested in joining the expedition? The challenge, adventure and their finds are life-changing for many. However, it gives Luke meaning, purpose and direction. How can Luke trust God has a plan for him if he can't even work out how to get a job? He does the only thing he can... he prays. Within a week, life has changed... oh how it has changed! The condition of his heart problems also takes a turn. Can he walk away?
With deeply scarred hearts Annie and Sam need answers Sydney 1790s to England 1830s Annie White, freed after serving her seven years as a convict in Sydney, gets a visitor who will change her life. She starts a baking business, and just as it's making a profit, she's then asked to assist another freed convict, named Sam Corbett. Annie nurses him back to health, they marry and they settle into a life together, they are barely making ends meet when she realises she's pregnant. Sam has his own past laid bare, and he must adjust to the revelations. They both must face their accusers, and they find that the answers to their questions are not what they thought. Their life experiences seem to cling tightly to them both, unable to shake it; finally, they end up back in England, facing their ghosts and discover they are not whom they think they are. How can they turn their anger and spite into love and forgiveness? The Dance of Life goes on.
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