The Touch
A Novel
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The Touch
Narrated by:
Jenny Sterlin
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Narrated by:
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Jenny Sterlin
In his native Scotland, Alexander Kinross was once dismissed as a shiftless boilermaker’s apprentice and godless rebel. But when, years later, he writes from Australia to summon his bride, his Scottish relatives quickly realize that he has made a fortune in the goldfields and is now a man to be reckoned with.
Arriving in Sydney after a difficult voyage, the sixteen-year-old Elizabeth Drummond meets her husband-to-be and discovers to her dismay that he frightens and repels her. Offered no choice, she marries him and is whisked at once across a wild, uninhabited countryside to Alexander's own town, named Kinross after himself. In the crags above it lies the world’s richest gold mine.
Isolated in Alexander’s grand home in the remote Australian wilderness, Elizabeth soon realizes how little she knows about her husband. She has no idea that Alexander is still deeply entangled with Ruby Costevan, his passionate, outspoken mistress and business partner whose son, Lee, becomes dear to Alexander.
Although Ruby loves Alexander desperately, Elizabeth does not. Elizabeth bears him two daughters: the brilliant Nell, so much like her father; and the beautiful, haunting Anna, who presents her father with a torment out of which for once he cannot buy his way. Thwarted in his desire for a son, Alexander turns to Ruby’s son as a possible heir to his empire, unaware that by keeping Lee with him, he is courting disaster.
Set against the rugged landscape of a rapidly changing Australia, The Touch is a sweeping family saga of passion, tragedy, history, and the desperate need to create new beginnings.
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