The End of the Sky by BZ Rogers

A remarkable story of courage, endurance - and a love that defied the conventions of a raw and ruthless age…

 THE END OF THE SKY  

‘If it’s got more than two legs it’ll bloody kill ya, if it’s got less than two legs, it’ll bloody kill ya

 - and if it’s GOT two legs, it’ll rob ya - and then it’ll bloody kill ya!

Any questions?’

Ellen Bullingham and Theresa Kelly may have grown up in different lands but each had tasted poverty, danger and injustice long before they stepped off the migrant ships in 1873 and into a new life on the far side of the world.

There is gold along Queensland’s Palmer River - there is also searing heat, disease, toxic wildlife and explosive tensions as European hatred of the Chinese becomes white hot with both factions also in dread of the hostile native tribes.

For Ellen, husband Enoch and baby Charlie there is the shared dream of a quick return to England, wealthy and healthy, but an encounter with a flame-haired, green-eyed Irish teenager also seeking a new life turns the world upside causing her to question everything she was brought up to believe.

As a forbidden love blooms, tragedy is never far away and a clash with ruthless timber queen, Gráinne Clancy threatens to turn all their dreams to ashes...