In the grandest wedding the small western plains town ofBathurst has ever seen, Eve Herman, without position or money, is marrying John Stuart Wakeman, one of the richest, most influential men in the land. Before their wedding day is overAustralia's most wanted man, the bushranger Alan Fletcher, will have held up their coach and altered all their lives! Alan Fletcher: aristocrat and Royal Naval Captain, wrongly convicted of murder and transported toNew South Wales for life. Eve Herman: American orphan, abandoned inSydney town and left to survive by her wits and courage. John Stuart Wakeman: the owner of fabledMayfield,Australia's largest and most prosperous cattle property. Mayfield is their story: from the streets of Southampton to the vast bush country of New South Wales and across the world to the city of old Boston, USA.