Tricia McGill
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Mystic Australia: Australian Historical Settlers Collection-Book 1
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0FCDKR2DY
In the1800s the penal colony of Botany Bay was an unforgiving and harsh place. Isabella is transported for wounding a member of the British aristocracy. She loathes the system that sentenced her to seven years transportation, and is determined to hate her new master who dreams of a new life beyond the Blue Mountains.
Mystic Australia is a story of courage and persistence-essential traits for the settlers who carved out a new life in a raw land where suffering and heartbreak were commonplace. The pair face many hardships in their quest for a new life in this untamed land.
Distant Australia: Australian Historical Settlers Collection-Book 2
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0FCDR6KS9
Even in the prospering colony of New South Wales, it would be far-fetched to think a convicted man could consider marrying the daughter of a wealthy property owner.
But Remy has larger problems to contend with than Sara’s bigoted father. Forced to leave the woman he loves behind, Remy faces overwhelming odds and an ordeal that threatens to strip him of everything; his pride, his strength, his health—even his life.
Sara has many struggles of her own and when Remy finally thinks he has a future with Sara within his grasp, he is sent to a place where pain and suffering are everyday occurrences. Will the lovers ever find true happiness?
Challenging Australia: Australian Historical Settlers Collection Book 3.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0FCDBZJF1
By 1840 the colony of New South Wales was expanding. Transportation of convicts to the east coast ended, and many free squatters set out to settle on lands to the south. In 1836 The Port Philip District became a separate colony.
Timothy, Tiger and Bella Carstairs eldest son, is bored with his government job and intent on seeking adventure and a new life away from Sydney. Accompanied by his Uncle Carlos he decides to find this adventure, and where else to find it, but in a newly formed settlement down south.
By now the road south might not be as hazardous as the one across the mountains travelled by his parents when he was a child, but still escaped and ex-convicts abound, seeking an easy life by forming gangs to take what they can where they can.
Not the least of Tim’s personal challenges is a young headstrong woman who, uninvited, takes it upon herself to join him on his travels. When they reach their destination, their troubles have only just begun.
Annie's Australia: Australian Historical Settlers Collection Book 4
https://www.amazon.com.au/dp/B0FCCZ5Q4Q
In this book we catch up with most members of the extended Carstairs family. Annie is the eldest Carstairs girl. She has lived out at Bathurst west of the Blue Mountains since her birth in 1824. After visiting her brother Tim and his wife in Port Phillip in 1843, Annie decides to stay there, seeking adventure much as Tim did the previous year.
Reserved and quiet Jacob O’Quinn works for her brother. The likeable young carpenter catches Annie’s eye, but when handsome Zachary McDowell, the complete opposite to steady Jacob comes along, he sweeps Annie off her feet. Heedless of advice, Annie makes a choice that turns out to be the worst she could ever make.
When Annie decides to return to her home, Jacob agrees to escort her, but the journey back across the mountains proves to be more eventful than she assumed it could ever be. The road itself may have seen improvements through the years but there will always be unexpected incidents to turn life around on its axis. A suspected murder brings the might of the law down on the shoulders of the young couple.
A Troubled Heart
ISBN: Epub: 978-0-2286-2853-8 Kindle: 978-0-2286-2854-5 PDF: 978-0-2286-2856-9
ISBN: PRINT: Amazon: 970-0-2286-2859-0 BWL Print: 978-0-2286-2858-3
Ignorant of his real past or name, Finn O’Connor creates one of his own. His story as far as he can gather is that he was born in Ireland, stolen from his mother as a baby by a gypsy woman, then as a toddler taken by an English woman to London. Aged about ten he fled this woman’s home and joined a gang of boys who survived by their wits on the streets. Five years later, he was arrested for a minor crime and thus transported to The Colony of New South Wales to serve a 10-year prison term. In 1846 as transporting of criminals from Britain neared an end in NSW, Finn was moved south to the infamous penitentiary at Port Arthur in Van Diemen’s Land.
On the day Finn received his papers of freedom a chance meeting brought him into contact with 20-year-old Esther Blythe. Born in Surrey, England, genteel Esther is kind and caring. As a 4-year-old she travelled with her parents to Van Diemen’s Land where her Papa, a doctor, took on the task of providing medical aid to the prisoners in the Port Arthur penitentiary and its surrounding area. When both parents were killed in an accident, Esther was left with no option but to take up employment as a governess/nursemaid.
For reasons that even she did not fully comprehend, Esther took ex-convict Finn under her wing when they met outside the penitentiary hospital. Could she sense that he was a fellow lonely soul who simply wanted someone to have faith in him? Life seems to take a turn for perhaps the better from then on, but would these two lonely people ever overcome the obstacles thrown their way and find the happiness they seek together as they face an uncertain future.
For The Love of Faith.
ISBN: Epub: 978-0-2286-2305-2. KINDLE: 978-0-2286-2306-9
ISBN: Print: Amazon: 978-0-2286-2308-3. LSI: 978-0-2286-2309-0
At almost seventeen Faith Boswell knows little about the world beyond the lodging house in Ballarat owned by her widowed mother. The mining town of Ballarat in 1860 is populated by those seeking to get rich by finding gold, so their residents are mostly miners on their way to the diggings with high hopes of finding this highly treasured substance. Sadly, Faith’s Ma is not the easiest person to get along with, leaving Faith to wonder just why her mother is so bitter.
Things start to change unexpectedly one day when a stranger appears at the door of their home—a gentleman who mysteriously seems to know a lot about Faith’s Ma and her past life, plus Faith herself. Faith fears that her mother has been lying to her all her life. From that day Faith’s life takes an odd turn. One long-term lodger is a widow who unexpectedly presents Faith with an unusual birthday gift. This gift causes uproar, but goes on to play a large part in Faith’s life.
Because Faith knows little about life outside of her sheltered existence, she is unable to fathom if handsome Walter Finch, son of the nearby store owners, has real feelings for her or is simply being kind. Faith is soon to find out just how willing Walt is to help her as she sets out on a new and scary phase in her life.
Crying Is For Babies
ISBN: 9780228607106 Print ISBN: 9780228607625
In the 1930s medicine was still very much a hit and miss affair. The surgeons were still experimenting and learning about the human body. This at a period when there was little in the way of pain relief.
This is one woman’s story about a childhood ruined by such surgeons, whose bad judgement confined an eight year old subsequently to bed for three years, and left her with a disability to last a lifetime. Nowadays she would have been given bed rest and pain relief, and in no time would have been up and running again.
Her strong will, and the love of a close family, saw her through the bad times, enabling her to go on and become the talented, remarkable person she was. I know because this woman was my sister.
ISBN: 9780228607106 Print ISBN: 9780228607625
In the 1930s medicine was still very much a hit and miss affair. The surgeons were still experimenting and learning about the human body. This at a period when there was little in the way of pain relief.
This is one woman’s story about a childhood ruined by such surgeons, whose bad judgement confined an eight year old subsequently to bed for three years, and left her with a disability to last a lifetime. Nowadays she would have been given bed rest and pain relief, and in no time would have been up and running again.
Her strong will, and the love of a close family, saw her through the bad times, enabling her to go on and become the talented, remarkable person she was. I know because this woman was my sister.
Remnants of Dreams (Mainstream/Family Saga)
ISBN: 978-1-77145-183-3
Remnants of Dreams moves from the horrors of the 1914-1918 war to the 1990s, and paints an unforgettable picture of a changing world and of working class people in North London whose only riches are love and the knowledge that they did their best.
Alicia's indomitable spirit sustains her and her large family through two wars, illness, death and loss. From her mother's example Sara finds the courage to escape an intolerable situation and forge a new life in a new country.
Remnants of Dreams was previously published as Traces of Dreams and in 2003 won the Romance Writers of Australia's mainstream Romantic Book of The Year.