Daughters of the Wreckage

<p><strong>"An immersive and engrossing mystery." --Tania Blanchard, bestselling author</strong></p><p><strong>"A masterfully crafted dual timeline." --Tea Cooper, <em>USA TODAY</em> bestselling author</strong></p><p><strong>Two women. One shipwreck. And four centuries of secrets.</strong></p><p>Shortly before Christmas in 2018, Tess McCarthy, after years as a hard-working English teacher who never did anything out of the ordinary, flies to Western Australia's remote Abrolhos Islands. She is in search of answers--both to the infamous <em>Batavia</em> shipwreck and her personal family crises.</p><p>In 1628, Saskia, an orphaned young Dutchwoman, boards <em>Batavia</em> 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 taciturn under surgeon.</p><p>Tess, Saskia, and Aris--their lives linked by secrets that span generations--carry the baggage of past losses and the uncertainty of their futures. And, in the most unlikely circumstances, they may find qualities that echo through centuries: faith, acceptance, and love.</p><p><strong>A woman searching for answers in her own life finds them--and much more--in the wreckage and haunting stories of the <em>Batavi</em>a shipwreck.</strong></p><p><em>Previously published in Australia as</em> Daughters of Batavia.</p>