Gwendoline Ewins
ASIN: B00EDZDV0E
Publisher: Gwendoline Ewins
Pages: 232
Drums: Historical Saga. Sensual, intended for 17-plus readers: "absolutely enchanting", "amazing book"1825, Polynesia. Amelia Yorke is a destitute teacher with a petunia in a flower pot outside her dingy cottage in Sydneytown. Guy Richmond is a botanist seeking orchids in the rainforest and heir to vast lands in New South Wales.Tragedy has touched both of them.Amelia and Guy are from different worlds and should never have met, yet come together on the deck of a sailing ship overlooking a spectacular tropical lagoon.Suddenly drums on the beach threaten. Below them a man desperately paddles for freedom: a man Amelia has never met but agreed to marry. A man Guy loathes.The Southern Seas Series tells loosely-linked stories of people who find themselves - for all sorts of reasons - on remote coral islands in the 1800's. They include adventurers, seafarers, missionaries, traders, teachers ...