Evoking the many aspects of human existence; deceit, murder, greed, love, hate and guilt, LOST TO TWO WORLDS weaves together fiction with historical fact.
From past…
Benjamin Boyd, an early Australian pioneer, psychopath, slaver and deviant predator, is driven by obsession and greed to restore family fortunes. Captain of his own schooner, the Wanderer, loaded with ‘borrowed’ bank gold, he sails the South Seas to establish his empires yet eventually leaving murder in his wake in a well-executed plan to escape British justice.
To present…
After the disappearance of his mother in 1960 at the age of seven, later tormented by a brutal Catholic education, Daniel Hannaford battles demons until, late in life, he takes a job on a Caribbean Island. There he meets a Jamaican woman where they witness a horrific attack perpetrated by the son of a British Lord. Pursued to kill them for what they had seen, the couple are drawn together by fear, murder, and love.
LOST TO TWO WORLDS is a sad reflection of our times, when evil men do evil things yet flourish without misgivings, while good men can anguish a lifetime from childhood trauma that permanently defines them.
The Lives of Benjamin Boyd and Daniel Hannaford, separated by 173 years, are unintentionally juxtaposed in a book being written by Daniel’s wife, Pia, called The Last Blackbirder. The characters and lives of the two men could not be any different; two complete opposites representing all that’s evil and good to be found in humankind, two men following very different paths; one representing the very worst in man and the other crippled by life’s experience in trepidation of conscience.
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