On Different Shores

Exiled to Van Diemen’s Land. ‘Truly exceptional trilogy” When Ralph kisses Ella, the daughter of his father’s housekeeper, he has no idea of the trouble he is about to unleash. Ella is sent to Yardley Hastings, Northamptonshire, to be ‘safely’ married, but she falls in love with Jem, the ‘bad boy’ of the village. (Contains some strong language and sexual scenes essential to the plot)
Jem is a poacher, and when he and his two cousins are found guilty of killing Lord Northampton’s gamekeeper in 1841, he is transported to Van Diemen’s Land for life, leaving behind Ella, now his common-law wife. Pregnant and penniless, she faces the appalling lack of rights for women in Victorian England and is forced to make terrible choices.
While Jem suffers the deprivations of a brutal life in chains, Ella is determined her child will know its father. If selling her body is the only way to raise the fare to follow him across the globe, then that is what she’s prepared to do. Will the cost of her actions prove too high, for her, and for all those she loves? Can she and Jem ever be reunited?