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Twenty-two years ago, Emma Grady was wrongfully convicted and sentenced to transportation to Australia, where she bore and lost her baby daughter. It is now 1885, and Emma has returned to Blackburn, yet she is still haunted by the past, unable to forget how her uncle Caleb Crowther ignored her desperate plea to save herself and her tragic first-born. Crowther curses his niece's return and also hounds Molly, Emma's estranged daughter. Molly and her children run away, and contending with hunger, exhaustion, and the unwelcome attentions of men, their life at times is almost unbearable. But Molly has inherited Emma's indomitable spirit.