The Farrells agree to try to find her, but as they sail closer to their quarry, the stakes jump dramatically. His daughter has been kidnapped and taken to opium-ridden Hong Kong. Kitty and Rian Farrell sail their schooner Katipo III in Dunedin Harbour in 1863, they are answering a call for help from their friend Wong Fu. Read MoreĪ story of love, family, adventure and intrigue, set against backdrops of the gold rushes in Australia and New Zealand and the Opium Wars in China. A tempestuous romance and a lively adventure with a fiery and memorable heroine, Kitty is a stand-alone novel, with potential as an ongoing saga of love and adventure on the high seas in the Pacific of the 1800s, by one of our leading historical novelists. The path to true love is tortuous, involving rampaging Maori war parties, illicit sexual liaisons and incarceration in Sydney's Hyde Park Barracks, forgery, betrayal and death at sea. When she discovers he is also a gun runner, her loyalties are torn and her tempestuous nature leads to an estrangement.
In desperation, her mother banishes Kitty to the colonies in disgrace, under the guardianship of her dour missionary uncle and his long-suffering wife.Īgainst the backdrop of the wild and unruly Bay of Islands in the period leading up to the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi, Kitty meets and falls in love with Ryan Farrell, a rude, aloof and atheistic ships captain. After Kitty is discovered in a compromising position with an unscrupulous adventurer, her reputation is left in shreds. When 18-year-old Kitty Carlisle's father dies unexpectedly in Norfolk in 1838, Kitty and her mother are left impoverished.
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