TY  - BOOK
AU  - Fraser, Darry,
TI  - The widow of Ballarat
SN  - 9781489250407
U1  - A823.4 23
PY  - 2018///.
CY  - Sydney, N.S.W. : 
PB  - Mira, 
KW  - Widows
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Outlaws
KW  - Man-woman relationships
KW  - Australia
KW  - Inheritance and succession
KW  - Gold mines and mining
KW  - History
KW  - 19th century
KW  - Ballarat (Vic.)
KW  - 1851-1901
KW  - Victoria
KW  - Social life and customs
KW  - Australian fiction
KW  - 21st century
KW  - Historical fiction
KW  - lcgft
KW  - Romance fiction
N2  - "A story of passion, adventure and a woman's quest for independence set against the colourful backdrop of 19th century Bendigo and the goldfields of Ballarat. 1854, Ballarat, Victoria When Nell Amberton's husband is shot dead by a bushranger, there are few who grieve his passing, and Nell least of all. How could she miss the monster who had abused her from the day they wed - the man who had already killed his innocent first wife? But his death triggers a chain of events that seem to revolve around the handsome bushranger who murdered him - a man to whom Nell, against her better judgement, is drawn. But Nell has far more than a mysterious stranger to worry about. With a mess of complications around her late husband's will, a vicious scoundrel of a father trying to sell her off in matrimony, and angry relatives pursuing her for her husband's gold, she is more concerned with trying to ensure her safety and that of her friend, goldfields laundry woman Flora, than dealing with the kind of feelings that led her astray so catastrophically before. After the violence on the goldfields, Nell's fate also hangs in the balance. It seems that, after all, she might need to do the one thing she has avoided at all costs ... ask for the help of a man."--Publisher
ER  -