Spirited and independent, Nora Tamasin gets weak around Lynx. Is it the air? Is it the man? Is it the excitement of gold-rush Australia? Is Nora in love with Lynx…or with …

          Nora Tamasin tracels to Australia to become the ward of Lynx Herrick, ruler of a vast empire in the savage gold country.

          Thirty-five years ago Lynx came to Australia as a convict in chains. Now, obsessed with the power of gold, he seeks to buy revenge against his accusers. Nora becomes unwillingly involved in his campaign of tyranny towards Minta Cardew, last heiress of White-ladies. And in this ancient English manor, the hatred that Lynx has nursed for so long in the Australian bush erupts in a storm of deception, terror and murder…..