Captain Sunrise — Sally Odgers

Miss Amanda Jones is furious when her carriage is held up by the bushranger calling himself Captain Sunrise, and even more so when he takes her diamonds. Meanwhile, her old swain Harry Opaldown returns expecting to marry her.

Amanda has moved on to thoughts of a more advantageous match.

Hurt and angry, Harry resolves to get Amanda's diamonds back from the thief.

​Mary Downie is willing to help him with this enterprise. Harry hesitates to use a serving girl in this way but, as Mary observes, "Using's what folk do..."



Captain Sunrise is a novella set in Colonial Australia and now available in both paperback and epub formats.