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A different time, a different place, but you will live this story as if it were your own Married Woman's Property Act of 1893 New South Wales Henceforth when a woman marries her property shall remain her own "With the passing of the Married Woman's Property Act, Kitty Barron no longer needs to fear losing Redwoods should she choose to marry again. But her existence is safe and settled, if unexciting, and she is content with life as it is - until a chance meeting changes her mind. Meanwhile, her daughter Joy is emerging from pubescence into young womanhood, and longs to explore the world...

It is often a spur-of-the-moment decision that can become a turning point in life. So it is for Kitty Morland, a young woman in London in 1878. When she yields to temptation one fateful day the consequences of her action force her to flee to the other side of the world, to the small timber town of Bulahdelah in the mid-north coast of New South Wales, home of the giant cedar trees. On board the ship carrying her to the other side of the world Kitty meets three men who will influence her future -Rufe Cavanagh, a dashing Colonial, William Barron, an English aristocrat, and Jan van Mayen, a South...