![]() ![]() ![]() Throughout the years of love, marriage, children, pairings of friends, and struggles to save the ranch from storms and a sworn enemy, Joanna, coached by a half-Aborigine friend, learns something of the old ways, as well as the ``soul links'' of the ``dreamings'' and ``songlines.'' When six-year-old Beth is almost killed by a wild dog, her mother, Joanna, knows she must go beyond what she already understands from the satchel's contents. Joanna, who agreed to be ``nanny'' for Adam, has brought with her a satchel of odd artifacts, including a deed to a land unknown, pages of cryptic symbols, and (later found) a priceless opal. Joanna's dead mother, like Adam, had been transported alone back to England, a traumatized child, but it was not until Joanna was six that her mother became the prey of dreams-dogs, a terrible serpent, a curse-that eventually killed her. Joanne Drury meets sheep-rancher Hugh Westbrook on the dock upon her arrival from England Hugh is to take charge of five-year- old orphaned Adam, a frenzied, silent, terrified child. Wood (Vital Signs, 1985 Soul Flame, 1987, etc.) has tracked doctor/healer women bucketing on to survival against mighty odds here, a young Englishwoman, arrived in 1871 to pioneer Australia, embarks on a search for the nightmare core of a generational curse-both thwarted and aided by the rapidly disappearing secret ancient culture of the Aborigines. ![]()
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