Dimensions
113 x 178 x 51mm
Eve Herman and her sister Clare find themselves orphans in Sydney town, 7,000 miles from the land of their birth. Clare - beautiful, impressionable, addicted to pleasure - soon takes the easy way to earn a living, and Eve - strong and reliable - is left alone.
Naval sea captain Alan Fletcher intends to take up his rightful position as Squire of Long Moss. But his ruthless cousin's plotting means he is instead transported on a convict ship bound for New South Wales.
Revered and respected throughout the colony, John Stuart Wakeman is the owner of Mayfield, the largest, richest, and most renowned property in New South Wales. The first moment he sees Eve he is captivated.
On their wedding day, Eve's life is forever altered by a fateful meeting in the bush, and the realisation that there is a secret she must keep from her husband. When she is brutally attacked, her secret comes back to haunt her and cause bitter estrangement between her and her husband. Heartbroken, Eve is all too vulnerable to the magnetism of Alan Fletcher - the man her husband has sworn to destroy . . .
'Mayfield' is a story of the overwhelming and consuming love of two men for the same indomitable woman, and of the valour, losses and sacrifices that each must make in the fight for her love.
