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350 pages.
New Zealand author.
Summary: When 18-year-old Kitty Carlisle's father dies unexpectedly in Norfolk in 1838, Kitty and her mother are left impoverished. Kitty is disgraced after being discovered in a compromising position with an unscrupulous man, and she is banished to New Zealand with her missionary uncle and his wife. In the Bay of Islands, missionaries struggle to establish Victorian England across the harbour from the infamous whaling port of Kororaraka, Hell-Hole of the Pacific. Kitty falls in love with Rian Farrell, a sea captain, but Rian has secrets of his own. Then shocking events force her to flee once more.
Smuggler's wife series ;
bk. 1.