I’m thrilled to share with you the long-awaited cover and synopsis of Dorothy Adamek’s Carry Me Away, her second Blue Wren Shallows historical romance novel. Inspired by the true story of a devastating shipwreck in 1878, along the Shipwreck Coast in my home state of Victoria, Australia. I’ve had the privilege of reading this stunning novel and it is a beautifully rendered tale of loss and love, with Dorothy’s gorgeous prose and layered characterisation. Carry Me Away releases on November 5, but do pre-order so you get it while the special pre-order price is still available.

You may remember I travelled along the Great Ocean Road earlier this year and visited the very beach where the shipwreck that inspired this story took place. Having read Dorothy’s incredible story, the visit was moving and meaningful in so many ways.

But enough chatter from me! Take a look at this beautiful cover and story….

Inspired by the incredible true story of an Australian shipwreck

and those who survived to tell the tale.

When the Black Swallow sinks off the Australian coast in 1877, Australian midshipman Tom Darley rescues English passenger Ada Carmichael from the disaster that claims her entire family. News of the only two survivors enchants the world, but Ada needs to hide before secrets and old foes find her. Tom is chasing big dreams of a crumbling house he will convert into a small hotel ~ but the promising start he’s acquired now sits at the bottom of the sea.

Inexplicably entangled, Ada and Tom lean upon each other to make sense of the tragedy that’s displaced them. But when scheming journalists observe their affection they drag Tom into life-altering riches and a news-worthy romance he cannot resist. So he arranges for Ada’s protection where only he might find her ~ the quiet Phillip Island farm of his friends Shadrach and Finella Jones.

And that’s where real trouble finds them. When heroic promises fail to shelter, and love refuses to be silenced, only surrender will pluck Ada and Tom from where life has wrecked them.

The cover girl is none other than Dorothy’s beautiful daughter Sophie, and the background image is the very gorge where the real survivors found themselves on that horrific day.

Dorothy’s novels well and truly hold their own alongside talent like Laura Frantz, Joanne Bischof, and Tamera Alexander so if you are yet to discover Dorothy, now is the time! The first Blue Wren Shallows novel, Carry Me Home, is available now and is a must read!

Here’s what the lovely Laura Frantz has to say about Carry Me Away…

If you are intrigued, head on over to Dorothy’s website and read the heart-wrenching first chapter of Carry Me Away!

Do you love stories inspired by real events? Any you recommend?

Australian author, Dorothy Adamek, writes Displacement Fiction ~ the stories of people upended by trauma and tragedy, and the struggle to belong in their new worlds. Couched in romance, her fiction is set in the late Victorian era. Author of the Blue Wren Shallows trilogy, she lives at Crabapple House in Melbourne with her Beloved and their three children, twenty fruit trees and Gilbert the Cat. A graduate of La Trobe University, Dorothy studied Literature, History and Education. She taught secondary school English and English As A Second Language. She loves black and white floors, collects blue and white china, and makes apricot jam every summer. Her favourite holiday destination is Phillip Island, the real life setting of her Blue Wren Shallows trilogy.

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Read the first chapter of Carry Me Away
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Buy at Amazon: Carry Me Away