Adam's Empire — Evan Green

A masterful epic packed with drama and excitement; a blockbuster of a novel in the bestselling tradition of Wilbur Smith.

He thought he had everything until tragedy struck....

Adam Ross, orphaned at nine, cherished a dream -- that one day he would have land of his own. The opal fields of Coober Pedy offered his first glimpse of riches -- and Nellie, a dusky beauty, provided his first taste of love....

From the western plains of New South Wales to the balmy waters of Sydney Harbour, from the grinding heat of a West Australian cattle station to the eerie desert shores of Lake Eyre, Adam was driven by his ambition. At his side stood Heather, a woman whose blonde beauty masked a calculating heart of ice. And when tragedy struck, it seemed that Adam would never realize his dream....