When the Great War ends, Joshua Connor, a grieving farmer and sometime water diviner from the Mallee in Victoria, sets out to fulfil his wife's dying wish, to travel to Gallipoli to recover the bodies of his three sons and bury them in consecrated ground. Crescent collides with cross, and hope with reason as he discovers that his eldest son, Art, may still be alive. When Connor makes a desperate dash into the perilous heart of Anatolia one question...

Lily Marshall's life changes radically when she returns to college to get the degree she has always wanted. A new social life on campus, schoolwork keeping her up late, a part-time job, all require Lily's strength, love and perseverance if she is to reach her goal.

The big trees: Peaceful homesteaders, living among the huge redwood trees, attempt to avert possession of their land by a ruthless land baron. Sundowners: When two brothers find their ranch empire threatened, their gun-slinging brother comes back home to help.