Publisher's Synopsis
Discovery
By the 1700s, the Aborigine has lived in harmony with the land in Australia for sixty thousand years. But now ghost-ships are arriving, their very existence is threatened by a terrifying white invasion.
Love
When Jonathan Cadwallader leaves Cornwall to sail on the Endeavour, he leaves behind sweetheart, Susan Penhalligan. But an act of brutality will reunite them in the raw and unforgiving penal colony of New South Wales.
Hardship
Billy Penhalligan has survived transportation and clings to the promise of a new beginning. But there will be more suffering before he or his fellow convicts can regard Australia as home...
