
In the land behind the sun, the only thing they have is each other. But worse is to come as the threat of separation looms. Her first novel Behind the Sun, was released in December, 2012. When they finally arrive on the other side of the world, they are confined to the grim and overcrowded Parramatta Female Factory. Deborah Challinor is an Australian writer and a historian. Rachel catches the eye of a sinister passenger with more than honour on his mind, whose brutal assault leaves her life hanging in the balance.

She lives in New South Wales with her husband. Friday makes an implacable enemy of Bella Jackson, a vicious woman whose power seems undiminished by her arrest and transportation, while Harriet is taken under the wing of an idealistic doctor, James Downey. Deborah Challinor is a writer and historian, and author of the bestselling Children Of War trilogy, as well as a string of bestselling historical novels, including Fire, Kitty, Union Belle, Amber and Isle Of Tears, and a number of nonfiction titles, including Grey Ghosts.

On the voyage to New South Wales their friendship becomes an unbreakable bond - but there are others on board who will change their lives forever. As the individual lives of four young London women slowly came together, they finally met in the notorious Newgate jail where they all awaited the results. There, she meets three other girls: intelligent and opportunistic thief, Sarah Morgan, naive young Rachel Winter, and reliable and capable seamstress, Harriet Clarke.

When they finally arrive on the other side of the world, they are confined to the grim and overcrowded Parramatta Female Factory. Irreverent and streetwise prostitute, Friday Woolfe, is in London's notorious Newgate gaol, awaiting transportation. Rachel catches the eye of a sinister passenger with more than honour on his mind.
