Kalinda

Sequel to 'Adam's Empire'

The return to Kalinda, a vast desert sheep station in Australia's outback, an empire founded by Adam Ross. Adam is living openly on Kalinda with his voluptuous half-caste lover Nellie. But the visit of his old friend Josef Hoffman, son of a Barossa winegrower, brings trouble in the shape of his companion Sarah Mandleton, a fortune hunter who instantly sets her sights on Adam.

Simultaneously, Adam is plagued by a lawyer demanding that his beloved daughter Cassie should be handed over to her maternal grandmother, to save the child from disgrace. Nellie decides that she must leave Kalinda, to save Adam further embarrassment, and it is a hurt, angry Adam who then leaves to join the army and serve in World War II. But under fire in Nazi-occupied Greece, Adam encounters the beautiful Melina O'Sullivan, a woman who will become his second wife - and with whom he will return . . .