About Silver Highways by Kate Lance:
“A beautiful and poignant coming of age romantic tale that kept me reading from start to finish.” Goodreads.
Lucy Fox is sailing to Melbourne in 1906 with her sister Rosa, when a tragic landfall leaves her life entangled with three seamen: gentle Sam, cynical Danny and beautiful Gideon.
After Rosa’s scandalous elopement, trader Min-lu draws Lucy into a new world of silks, spices and the silvery pearlshell of Broome: a port in the wild Australian north-west where breaking the rules is a way of life.
The Great War begins and Lucy’s lover must go to sea, where ruthless U-boats are stalking the last of the great sailing ships.
But even when peace returns, the influenza pandemic comes with it … and Lucy, far from home, discovers how bitterly she has been betrayed.
Currently only $0.99! Silver Highways is the foundation novel of the Tempo series, Testing the Limits and Embers at Midnight.
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Author Bio:
Kate (CM) Lance grew up on Lake Macquarie, NSW, Australia. Her background is in science and technology, but in 2000 she ran across the story of the charmed life of an old Broome pearling lugger, Redbill, and discovered the joys of archival research and writing. Her first book, Redbill: From Pearls to Peace, won the Western Australian Premier’s Book Award for Non-Fiction, and her second book, Alan Villiers: Voyager of the Winds, won the Mountbatten Maritime Award. Her novel, The Turning Tide, was published by Allen & Unwin under the name CM Lance. Other novels include Silver Highways, Atomic Sea, Testing the Limits and Embers at Midnight. She lives in South Gippsland, Victoria, with two beautiful whippets.