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....

A sweeping historical romance about growing up and getting what you really need, set against the harsh landscape of the New Zealand goldfields.   Newly arrived on the Otago Goldfields of 1863, a young Englishwoman is caught between two men: the younger brother who needs her and the man who...