Description
After narrowly escaping death at the hands of a dangerous criminal, Peg Jessup and her friend Jack Dawes, head interstate to start a new life together. Peg’s blossoming musical talent is the impetus for them to head to Tamworth for the music festival. Now calling herself Megan, the name that is truly hers, she is prepared to leave her old life and identity behind.However, the police believe she killed her aunt and faked suicide. They drag the waterhole at which her blood stained clothes were found. One of the bodies found there had died twenty years before.Unware of the link to herself, and the memories dredged up by the find, Peg learns of shares she has inherited from her real mother and the deadly interest of two rival companies.She and Jack flee Tamworth at the end of the festival, but when Jack is forced back to Melbourne, Peg takes up the offer of a gig with superstar Wayne Carson and the promise of a musical future.The unexpected circumstances that lead her to save a newly discovered cousin from abduction, draw unwanted attention from the men after her shares. She is framed for a series of robberies and her fledgling career is put in jeopardy.This story is set in the early 1970s.
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