Book Description

CORROBOREE When Englishman Eyre Walker, newly arrived in Australia, meets Charlotte Lindsay, romance quickly blossoms. But theirs is a relationship with fatal consequences. When a late-night tryst is interrupted by Charlotte's irate father, Walker's young Aborigine servant is brutally killed. Walker is anxious to atone for the boy's death by giving him a proper Aboriginal burial. And so he begins a journey into the outback to search for Corroboree, the gathering of nomadic tribes for the age-old ritual. EMPRESS Henry Carson - An English aristocrat and MP, he rises to the most exalted position in the British Empire. But behind the pomp and ceremony he struggles to suppress a ruinous, guilty secret...Jamie Cullen - Ambitious and ruthless, thwarted by the woman he loves, he plans a terrible revenge...Lucy Darling - Loved by two men, desired my many. Fleeing from a past of poverty she enters a world of wealth and power. A world that becomes an Empire...