Into the Distance

What you need to know before your trail

Twenty one year old orphaned Leonie Grant sets sail for Australia on the SS Britannic with dreams of a new start. She along with her aunt Ruth are joining Ruth’s brother on his farm in the Australian outback. Ruth is recently bereaved and so she too is hoping for a new start. However Leonie fears that her aunt is not telling her everything – but what is she hiding?

On board the Britannic, Leonie befriends the handsome, mischievous journalist, Adam Mallory, and finds herself growing closer to him during the voyage. But Ruth disapproves of his choice of career, and Leonie is also drawn to Captain Clyde Ferguson – a soldier she met years before in her old home in Devon, in a chance encounter. Ruth seems to approve of their friendship, until suddenly and inexplicably she turns against him. What does Captain Ferguson have to do with Leonie’s past?

And should Leonie obey her aunt’s wishes, or allow herself  see