On reading THE ABDUCTION OF EMILY BYRNE by prize-winning writer, CHRISTINE POWER, LEIGH RUSSELL (author of the popular DI Geraldine Steel Series), commented: "A very well-written novel." ..".has a terrific cast of characters." "Excellent scene setting ... so evocative of those times." Oblivious to wild brambles tearing at her skin, a young woman staggers down the mountainside. In the dark, she searches desperately for the canoe into which, blindfolded, she was brought to this remote hideaway in the wilderness. Emily Byrne's ordeals begin in 1858 when the tiny settlements of New Caledonia are...