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By Stefanie Koens
Historical Fiction
Shortly before Christmas in 2018, Tess McCarthy flies to Western Australia's remote Abrolhos Islands. She is in search of answers Amsterdam, 1628. Saskia, an orphaned young Dutchwoman, boards Batavia with relatives, bound for a new and potentially dangerous life in the East Indies - only for her world to first collide with Aris Jansz, the ship's reluctant under surgeon. Tess, Saskia and Aris, in the most unlikely circumstances, they find qualities that echo through centuries: faith, acceptance, and love.