The Untold

Authors: Collins, Courtney
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
BISAC/Subject: FIC014000, FIC019000, FIC041000
ISBN: 9780698138674, Related ISBNs: 0399167099, 0425276171, 0698138678, 0698163923, 9780399167096
Classification: Fiction
Number of pages: 288,
Audience: General/trade
Synopsis: With shades of Water for Elephants and True Grit, a stunning debut novel set in the Australian outback about a female horse thief, her bid for freedom, and the two men trying to capture her.


It is 1921. In a mountain-locked valley, Jessie is on the run.
 

Born wild and brave, by twenty-six she has already lived life as a circus rider, horse and cattle rustler, and convict. But on this fateful night she is just a woman wanting to survive though there is barely any life left in her.
 

Two men crash through the bushland, desperate to claim the reward on her head: one her lover, the other the law.
 

But as it has always been for Jessie, it is death, not a man, who is her closest pursuer and companion. And while all odds are stacked against her, there is one who will never give up on her—her own child, who awaits her.

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