On the Shores of a Savage Eden... They found each other-William Pollard, deserter from a British warship bound for Australia and Tairata, the beautiful golden-skinned Maori princess who would betray her tribe to love a blue-eyed stranger. Together they embarked on a perilous journey across a land without bandaries, without law...a primitive world as yet untouched by the weapons and ways of the white man. Speaking the eternal language of survival and desire, they came together from the opposite ends of the earth to build a bold and glorious empire, to make a cruel and bounteous land their own.