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A SWEEPING HISTORICAL NOVEL It was an age of exploration, a time of danger and a place full of intrigue. Fiji, 1866, is a country teetering between unpredictable chiefs, lawless migrants, missionaries and wild colonial boys from New Zealand and Australia seeking new lives and fortunes. Into this explosive mix steps Spencer Hunter, a dark-haired voyager on the run from his own troubles and unprepared for what - and who - awaits him. Who will win his heart? Will he keep his head? Margaret Waddingham's painstaking research into colonial Fiji illustrates a canvas with plantation-owners, powerful tribal chiefs and migrant labourers, and delivers the Pacific's answer to the American South...