But worse is to come as the threat of separation looms. When they finally arrive on the other side of the world, they are confined to the grim and overcrowded Parramatta Female Factory. Rachel catches the eye of a sinister passenger with more than honour on his mind, whose brutal assault leaves her life hanging in the balance.
Friday makes an implacable enemy of Bella Jackson, a vicious woman whose power seems undiminished by her arrest and transportation, while Harriet is taken under the wing of an idealistic doctor, James Downey. On the voyage to New South Wales their friendship becomes an unbreakable bond - but there are others on board who will change their lives forever. There, she meets three other girls: intelligent and opportunistic thief, Sarah Morgan, naive young Rachel Winter, and reliable and capable seamstress, Harriet Clarke. Irreverent and streetwise prostitute, Friday Woolfe, is in London's notorious Newgate gaol, awaiting transportation.
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