Patrick Garrity started life as the bastard son of a female convict. Unwanted and unloved, he was born in shame and raised in the poverty of a Sydney orphanage. Barely out of his teens, he left the brawling city to make a new life for himself in the limitless back country of New South Wales. Alone and hungry, he met the woman who would change his destiny and that of an entire continent. Innocent in the ways of Europeans, Mayrah was the native girl Garrity bought to satisfy his passions. Divided by competing cultures, they were nevertheless united by their fierce love of the land—and eventually, each other. Together they carved out an enormous empire in the great outback, and founded a new generation of Australians who would forever bear the imprint of their pride and passion.

Disillusioned convict David Kerrick and Alexandra Hammond, a beautiful colonist, take on the perils and hardships of the vast Australian wilderness, burying the bitterness of the past and planting the seeds of a shining future.

Wrested from the primordial Australian wilderness, Tibooburra Station had taken the blood, sweat and tears of generations of Kerricks and given them a magnificent heritage in return. But now the golden legacy of the outback station was threatened by the disappearance of the young boy who would one day inherit it all.Fleeing the pain of being abandoned by his mother, eight-year-old Jeremy Kerrick wandered the rough-and-ready gold towns of the frontier and came to manhood among the primitive Aborigines of the vast, unexplored interior. At one with the land, he drew from it an indomitable strength that enabled him to win the woman of his dreams. Together, they would meet the challenge of the outback or die trying.

A LAND WITH NO PAST Sprawling and magnificent, the outback was the territory of jackaroos and convicts, kangaroos and koalas. Many a man was captivated by the lure and mystery of the unending wilderness, but few possessed the strength and daring to tame the savage land. A MAN WITH NO FUTURE A brilliant young doctor, Stephen Brendell loved the continent his forebears had died trying to conquer, and he vowed to use his skills helping settlers survive. Roaming from the teeming cities to the uncharted interior, he carved a life as tempestuous and unbounded as Australia itself. A LOVE WITHOUT END A woman of wealth and privilege, Deirdre Kerrick had the courage to venture into unknown regions without a second thought. But when the heir to her family’s sheep station lay dying, she feared their shining destiny would be destroyed—until she found the one man who could save their future and win her heart.

Bold, breathtaking, and beautiful, the Australian outback called to Lesley Holleck like no other site on the continent. The young firebrand soon realized, however, that the untamed region could exact a brutal price from all who dared enter it. But disguised as a rowdy jackaroo with a special talent for taming horses, she would earn the admiration and respect of the people who would help her survive there and forever change the world. Alexandra The proud matriarch of Tibooburra Station saw through Lesley’s charade and vowed to reward the audacious girl’s spirit. John Half Aboriginal, half white, the brilliant inventor befriended Lesley, never dreaming that one day his creations would save her from utter ruin. Zachary He had conquered the vast wilderness, but taming Lesley’s wild heart would take more strength than even he possessed. Determined to find her place on the frontier, Lesley battled disasters both natural and man-made. Yet only with a courage and cunning born of her undying love for the land would she secure her piece of the Outback Legacy.