It’s 1854 and John Leary has it made with Clarissa his expectant attractive wife and a growing building company. On his return from abroad to gold rush mad Sydney, a fatal site accident confronts him, threatening all he’s got.
Underhand and ruthless, he keeps his company alive from the accident’s fallout while sparring with his mother–in-law, a constant thorn in his side.
Stonemason Gerry Riordan tracks Leary’s battles and discovers a startling link to the young ambitious builder, one that will see their lives intertwine.
Gruelling hard work partners John’s arrogance testing his relationships with friends and in laws. He meets an old flame Beth and passions are stirred while competitors and the banks attack him. They want him stopped because he’s growing too fast, too soon. He fights back –tough and hard, breaking the law when he has to and jeopardizing his marriage and his new born.
Leary fights on, now unshackled from his in laws’ money. But his mother-in-law strikes, grabbing the prize he holds so tightly then John finds out too late that another possession is also torn from him, one that he’d taken for granted so long…
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