The Moving Finger

A midnight coach lurches through axle-deep mud toward a lone light—and its driver swears the road is haunted by a white horse and a woman who walks. Far from that road, Nellie Durham gazes at a mirage, longing for water in a land that offers none.

On the lonely saltbush plains of New South Wales, a rough hut serves as an accommodation house—and a refuge for a family with a dangerous reputation. Nellie loves Gentleman Jim, a polished bushranger whose bright pistols and shadowy past make him a perilous choice. Her grandmother’s cards foretell bad luck, while news arrives that Macartney’s cattle mob will soon pass within reach. The Durhams need Jim, but Nellie’s faith in him may cost more than she knows. When the cards warn of death, whose fate are they reading?

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