Redemption in Red Earth
January 18, 1812
Somewhere in the Indian Ocean
Mary Donovan held her bloody and swollen hands to her stomach and lent over the side of the ship to vomit. A mixture of morning sickness and seasickness had plagued her since the ship had left England almost three months ago, and she was not looking forward to another month of it. She knew she should be grateful that she had not been forced to travel with the First Fleet like her friend Mabel had. There were rumours that their journey had taken over eight months, but she struggled to feel any kind of gratefulness when she was being sent off to an unknown and savage land for a crime she did not commit. Well, mostly did not commit, anyway.
