Cape Lost

As the story of Cape Lost opens, an important new thread is about to be woven into the life of teenaged Gabrielle Allan. Home from boarding school for the summer holidays, she and Merry are once more happily on horseback. They are helping their Uncle Dunsany bring a herd of sheep to Cape Lost, the station owned by their Great-Uncle Garnet. Considered eccentric, Garnet Allan has lived all alone on this remote station bordering the sea ever since the mysterious disappearance of his young and beautiful wife many years before. Gay, curiously drawn to the homestead’s wild landscape so different from the green, rolling hills of home, does not expect to find herself thrown right into the middle of its mystery. These and subsequent events cause Gay to realize that everyone’s life holds unforeseen twists and turns—and change happens, whether one likes it or not. Yet a quiet inner resilience is growing in Gay that promises to carry her forward—come what may—along her own unique path. Second of three books in the Drovers Road Collection.