Legacy - Tamara Mckinley

Following in the pioneering footsteps of the women who have gone before her, Ruby and her new husband James brave a long and treacherous journey to start their new life together. However, they soon discover that there are many more dangers than just those that meet the eye. When James is tempted away by the gold rush, Ruby must join forces with the Aborigine girl Kumali and learn to adapt, if they're going to survive.

Meanwhile there are other new arrivals to Australian shores: a Tahitian with a mysterious past, a nave young schoolmistress, and an English aristocrat, all unaware that their destinies are irrevocably intertwined.

As fortunes are made and lives are lost, many secrets will be uncovered. But those torn apart by feuds, greed, hatred and circumstance, will ultimately find they have to unite under the same flag...

Tamara McKinley was born in Australia and returns there every year to do her research for her novels, which are coloured with the red, green and gold of her beloved homeland. Tamara is married to Oliver and between them they have five children, three grandchildren and a cat.

A rollercoaster ride through the heights of love and the depths of depravity

A powerful tale about survival, loyalty and conflict

'Lush with intense descriptions of nature and tense drama.'

'A multi-generational saga in the vein of THE THORNBIRDS...Story-telling at its best'

'Will keep you reading happily all day. Relax and enjoy.'

'An epic, gripping, tautly plotted novel with a final court-room twist worthy of John Grisham.'