Robert Penfold, a young clergyman, is transported as a convict for a forgery he did not commit, while the merchant’s son who benefited prospers in London. Years later a deliberately scuttled ship leaves Penfold, now calling himself Hazel, cast away on a Pacific island with Helen Rolleston, the fiancée of the man who ruined him.
A Victorian sensation novel that combines courtroom wrong, insurance fraud and castaway survival in one bustling plot. Download the free EPUB.