TO AUSTRALIA THEY CAME.Convicts, banished from England, were sent to serve out their sentences inthe primitive and unforgiving headlands on Botany Bay. It was here in SydneyTown that they and their offspring braved famine and treachery to build newlives.Among the most determined was Hope Blackstock, whose very name carried thepromise of a warmth and tenderness that the hardworking John Myers sodesired. And yet Hope longed for something more--the passion of CottyStarke, a man whose affections seemed destined for Charity, Hope'syounger--and bolder--sister. Together, with a spirited determination toclaim this rugged outback as their own, they staked out a destiny as bold astheir grandest dreams... and found passion and love everlasting.