TY - SOUND AU - Challinor,Deborah AU - Crawford,Louise TI - Kitty T2 - Kitty SN - 9781460791080 PY - 2019/// CY - Australia PB - Bolinda/HarperCollins audio KW - Gold mines and mining KW - Fiction KW - New Zealand fiction KW - 21st century N1 - Read by Louise Crawford; Adult N2 - When 18-year-old Kitty Carlisle's father dies in 1838, her suddenly impoverished mother hopes her beautiful daughter might at least find a good husband. But then Kitty is compromised by an unscrupulous adventurer, and she is banished in disgrace to the colonies. In the infamous whaling port of Kororareka - known as the Hell-Hole of the Pacific - Kitty falls in love with Rian Farrell, a mysterious sea captain with secrets of his own. Shocking events force her to flee the Bay of Islands for Sydney, but her independent heart leads her into a web of illicit sexual liaison, betrayal and death ER -