Convicted thief, Charlotte Badger, faces seven years transportation to Australia with only her wits and fists to ensure her survival. Yet still she dares to dream of a life of freedom and is willing to fight for it.
Nathan Wesley, missionary and loving husband, is torn between his devotion to God's work and his own wayward spirit. Elizabeth, his wife, is stifled by his devotion, yet keeps hidden a passionate secret that would destroy his love and the very foundation of their marriage.
All three are on board the convict ship, Earl Cornwallis, bound for Port Jackson where their destinies become inextricably entwined. Charlotte's defiant spirit, Nathan's conflicted passions and Elizabeth's suppressed desires carry them onto unimagined paths of adversity and self-discovery.
Set in the early days of the nineteenth century, Forbidden Frontier is fiction based on real life Charlotte Badger: convict, pirate and one of New Zealand's first English woman settlers.
Genre: Sagas
Nathan Wesley, missionary and loving husband, is torn between his devotion to God's work and his own wayward spirit. Elizabeth, his wife, is stifled by his devotion, yet keeps hidden a passionate secret that would destroy his love and the very foundation of their marriage.
All three are on board the convict ship, Earl Cornwallis, bound for Port Jackson where their destinies become inextricably entwined. Charlotte's defiant spirit, Nathan's conflicted passions and Elizabeth's suppressed desires carry them onto unimagined paths of adversity and self-discovery.
Set in the early days of the nineteenth century, Forbidden Frontier is fiction based on real life Charlotte Badger: convict, pirate and one of New Zealand's first English woman settlers.
Genre: Sagas
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