Chained to Your Heart

 

 

Any hopes eighteen-year-old Katherine Elizabeth Brady once had are gone.  Never in her wildest dreams could she have imagined herself locked up in Newgate, the most notorious of all prisons. Falsely accused of stealing, she shares a communal cell with twenty-five men, women, and children, with no hope of release.

After his parents were killed in a fire, young James Patrick Murphy was left to fend for himself. One hungry, desperate act landed him in Newgate. The other prisoners seem afraid of “Big Red.” Rumors of his viciousness abound. But one young woman seems to see through to his heart.

The prisoners are given “the privilege” of being transported to Botany Bay in Australia to finish their servitude and start a new life, but there’s a catch to this freedom from the bars of Newgate: all single women must marry before departing for the rugged frontier. And love has nothing to do with it.