โ Scribed by Mary Brock Jones
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
_Both Geraldine MacKenny and Bas Deverill escaped to the goldfields in search of something -- for him, a fortune; for her, independence; for both, freedom. Neither expected the fields to yield so much more. _
1860s, Otago, New Zealand
Geraldine finds the life of a wealthy runholder's daughter stiff and constraining. On the goldfields, she has the opportunity to be so much more: independent, responsible, strong. But her freedom is short-lived when she is noticed by notorious bandit Black Jack MacRae -- a man who is used to getting what he wants and who never takes no for an answer.
Cheerful, casual, uncommitted -- that's the way Bas likes his life on the goldfields. He may be of aristocratic blood, but he thrives on the challenges of commerce and the freedom of the colonies. Rescuing a beautiful girl from the grasp of Black Jack MacRae, however, throws his whole life into turmoil. Geraldine seems to be a magnet for trouble, and the goldfields are a long...
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