Sentenced to death for a simple confidence trick, Mary Jebb escapes the gallows ... but her reprieve is harsh: seven years in the unforgiving penal colony of Botany Bay.
Yet Mary is determined not to be forgotten, sending two pennies, engraved with a promise, to the two men who sealed her fate.
Timid artist Grace Moore jumps at the opportunity to marry handsome gentleman Michael Croxon - happy if only to get away from her drunken father.
But when Grace takes on a new cook, the two penny heart love tokens reveal she is tied to a world she didn't know existed ... A world of deceit, double-crossing, revenge and murder.
- ISBN10 1444769855
- ISBN13 9781444769852
- Publish Date 21 May 2015
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Hodder & Stoughton
- Format Paperback (UK Trade)
- Pages 464
- Language English