Devon Wakefield

Devon Wakefield Only Wanted To Escape The Unwanted Attentions Of Her Lustful Stepfather. Yet Her Hiding Place Proved To Be A Doorway To A New Life. Having Inadvertently Stumbled Onto A Convict Ship Bound For New South Wales In 1787 No One Would Believe Her When She Said She DidnT Belong There. So Like It Or Not She Was On Her Way To A New Home. On The Banks Of Sydney Harbor Devon Found Strange New Animals And People Who Would Become Her Friends. She Learned That She Had An Extraordinary Talent And Love For Farming. And Above All She Discovered The Love Of Her Life: Lieutenant Jonathan Lake Of His MajestyS Navy. The First Few Years In Australia Brought Nothing More Pleasant Than Poverty And Starvation. However As The Colony Grew More Prosperous So Did Devon. Yet As Successful As She Was As A Farmer DevonS Heart Was Broken. For Jonathan Was Gone And She Had Been Forced To Marry Another Man. Sometimes It Seemed As Though Devon Would Never Find Love Again-That All Life Promised Her Was Work Work And More Work. Then Back In London Jonathan Makes A Bizarre Discovery That Sets Him And Devon Back On The Road To Reunion And To True Love.