<p>As a girl Portia Oakeshott dreamed of caring for the reconstructed dinosaurs roaming the preserve near the south pole of her balmy home planet New New South Wales.</p><p><br></p><p>As a graduate from the planet's top veterinary school and a recent hire by the dinosaur preserve caring for dinosaurs brings Portia into conflict with land-coveting ranchers spoiled teenagers villainous millionaires religious fanatics and scheming politicians.</p><p><br></p><p>Her adventures take her from the big smoke to the back of Bourke-from the bustling city of Port Bounty across a continent of vast fields where farmers raise pigs containing cloned human organs to the lush Cretaceous forests where dinosaurs roam at the bottom of a world.</p><p><br></p>