Alternate chapters narrate two intertwining stories--one of a nineteenth-century teenage girl in the goldfields of Australia; the other of a present-day teenager who, in a nugget of gold, discovers a link with the past and the explanation to a myster...
In 1942 fifteen-year-old Katherine travels to Sydney, Australia, to stay with her mother's parents for the duration of the war, but, when Japanese submarines appear in Sydney's harbor, Katherine is sent inland to stay with her other grandmother at Pa...