Driven by desperation, eighteen-year-old Emily enters into a pact with Hugh Blake, a dying man old enough to be her grandfather. Arriving on Emu Downs as Hugh's wife, she runs the gauntlet of unkind gossip and suspicion as she struggles to make a place for herself in his household, and in the wider St Denis society. Believing Emily to be a hardened gold-digger, Ryan Farrelly, Hugh's station manager, is drawn to her against his better judgement...
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