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For Their Country's Good (3 book series) Kindle edition
For Their Country's Good (3 book series)
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by Rebecca Bryn (Author)

Epic tale of unbreakable love from an award-winning author

Book 1: Jem, a young poacher, is convicted of killing a gamekeeper and transported to Van Diemen's Land for life. Ella is left behind pregnant and penniless; determined her child will know its father, she sacrifices all to follow Jem.

Book 2: While Jem sails to the far side of the world in a convict ship, Ella makes terrible choices and finds herself accused of theft. She too, ends up in Van Diemen's Land, but far from Jem. To save her baby son from starvation in the convict nursery, she accepts an offer of marriage from a stranger.

Book 3: In the company of strangers - a horse thief, a sheep rustler, and an ancient nag called Blue - Ella crosses the Blue Mountains of Australia in search of gold, travelling ever farther from the man she loves. Jem, meanwhile, having received a letter telling him Ella is in Van Diemen's Land, risks execution by escaping to search for Ella. 

Will they accept that their love is not meant to be? The course of true love couldn't be bumpier! 

'Truly exceptional trilogy from one of the finest writers of our time.' - Amazon

'Characters that jump from the page and into your heart.' - Amazon

'Every second, minute, or hour spent in the company of Jem and Ella is time well spent.' - Amazon
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On Different Shores: A crime of passion. Separated by the English penal system, a young woman sacrifices all to follow the man she loves to Van Diemen's Land. (For Their Country's Good Book 1)
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On Different Shores: A crime of passion. Separated by the English penal system, a young woman sacrifices all to follow the man she loves to Van Diemen's Land. (For Their Country's Good Book 1)
by Rebecca Bryn (Author)
4.2 4.2 out of 5 stars 219
Exiled to Van Diemen's Land. 'Truly exceptional trilogy'' When Ralph kisses Ella, the daughter of his father’s housekeeper, he has no idea of the trouble he is about to unleash. Ella is sent to Yardley Hastings, Northamptonshire, to be ‘safely’ married, but she falls in love with Jem, the ‘bad boy’ of the village. (Contains some strong language and sexual scenes essential to the plot)
Jem is a poacher, and when he and his two cousins are found guilty of killing Lord Northampton's gamekeeper in 1841, he is transported to Van Diemen's Land for life, leaving behind Ella, his common-law wife. Pregnant and penniless, she faces the appalling lack of rights for women in Victorian England and is forced to make terrible choices.
While Jem suffers the deprivations of a brutal life in chains, Ella is determined her child will know its father. Brazen and shameless, if selling her body is the only way to raise the fare to follow him across the globe, then that is what she will do. Will the cost of her actions prove too high, for her, and for all those she loves? Can she and Jem ever be reunited?
On Different Shores is book one of three, and the ongoing nature of the story, inspired by real events in the author’s family history, means that these are not stand-alone books. The story is split simply because there are too many pages for one volume. (There is an e-boxset) Although each book takes you to a pivotal moment in the story, all three need to be read in order to reach the conclusion. Also, be prepared for some explicit sex and sexual abuse necessary to the plot.
The story spans twenty years in the lives of Jem and Ella and takes them around the globe, crossing perilous oceans in sailing ships to the penal colonies of Van Diemen’s Land, and to the goldfields of Australia, suffering the hardships many convicts and free emigrants suffered to found a British colony on slave labour.
Book Two is 'Beneath Strange Stars'.
Book Three is 'On Common Ground'.
Readers' Favorite Editorial Review - 5 stars ‘On Different Shores (For Their Country’s Good Book 1) by Rebecca Bryn is a powerful, character-driven, story of a young couple and their ill-fated love. Rebecca Bryn has gone a step further than any “Romeo and Juliet” tale by setting it in Victorian times. Women had no rights whatever, but Ella defies convention, earning money any way she can, and giving birth to Jem’s son, resolute in her intention to escape her abusive husband, Harry.
Will she be defeated by Harry’s single-minded passion to father a son of his own? If she escapes, can she endure crossing the globe with a toddler? Ella will move readers to tears, and to fury; she lives. All Ms Bryn’s characters, the good, the bad, and the ugly, live. On Different Shores is the first book in a brilliant historical novel that takes the reader wherever Ella and Jem lead.’

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Beneath Strange Stars (For Their Country's Good Book 2)
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Beneath Strange Stars (For Their Country's Good Book 2)
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4.5 4.5 out of 5 stars 91
Continuing the story of Jem and Ella. Jem, a young poacher is transported to Van Diemen's Land, for life, for killing one of Lord Northampton's gamekeepers, leaving behind, Ella, the girl he loves. As Jem and his cousins plan a mutiny aboard the convict ship, HMS Tortoise, in an attempt to return home to his lover, Ella is using the only currency she has, her body, to earn the fare to follow him across the globe. The mutiny fails, and Jem faces a life in exile, but his determination to escape is not quelled. Will he escape and find his way home, or will he be forced to accept his fate and learn to love again? Can Ella raise the money to escape her loveless marriage, or will her new midsummer baby tie her to England forever? Is their love not meant to be?

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On Common Ground (For Their Country's Good Book 3)
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On Common Ground (For Their Country's Good Book 3)
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4.6 4.6 out of 5 stars 139
Concluding the tale of Jem and Ella's ill-fated love: both have been transported as convicts to Van Diemen's Land. Ella and Jem's baby son, William, is dying from malnutrition in the nursery of the female factory at Launceston, where she is imprisoned. In order to save his life, she has put herself forward for marriage, despite already having a legal husband, Harry, and a son, Matthew, in England. Her new 'husband' has gold fever and is taking her and William over Australia's Bue Mountains in search of his fortune. Harry, in England, doubts Matthew is his son, and, desperate for a legal, blood heir, determines to hear the truth of the matter from Ella's own lips and sets out to find her. Jem, meanwhile, still a prisoner in Impression Bay, on Van Diemen's Land's convict peninsula, believes Ella and William are in England. Letters from home suggest she's with Harry, and is happy, but can Jem believe that after what Harry has put her through in the past? Unable to rest until he knows she's safe and happy, Jem determines on a further escape attempt to reach England and Ella. Will their paths ever cross again, or is their love not meant to be?

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Rebecca Bryn

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Rebecca lives near Britain's smallest city, St Davids, in the far west of Wales. Surrounded by stunning coastal and moorland scenery, she also loves to paint. She inherited her love of stories from her grandfather, who told stories with his hands: stories with colourful characters and unexpected endings. Her fascination with what makes people who they are, and the belief that life is many shades of grey, informs her writing. A Native American Indian proverb reads, 'Don't judge a man until you have walked two moons in his moccasins.' Rebecca has based her life on this tenet: it is certainly core to her writing. 'We may not condone what a person does, but sometimes we can understand and maybe come to forgive.' In 2019, she won the IAN Fiction Book of the Year prize, the IAN Outstanding Historical Fiction prize, and the Readers' Favorite Gold Medal for Historical era/event Fiction.

Her books have been awarded Readers' Favorite 5-star reviews.