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Jacky Faber, having amassed wealth through dives for Spanish gold, buys the *Lorelei Lee* to ferry passengers across the Atlantic. In London, she is arrested and condemned to serve a life sentence in a fledgling Australian penal colony. The ship is commandeered to transport her and over 200 female convicts to New South Wales. Determined not to accept defeat, Jacky organizes her companions—her sisters—in a series of daring plans, brushes with danger, and unexpected comic moments. Her efforts create ripples as she contemplates whether she will be a founding mother of the colony or simply an outrate adversary to the settlement.
First publish date: 2010
Genre: Children's Fiction/Children's Adventure
Authors: Louis A. Meyer
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