Anna Wetherell moves from Great Britain to New Zealand in the 1860s, where a gold rush on the southern island attracts countless precious metal prospectors. Arriving in the town of Dunedin, she meets the charismatic Emery Staines, who exerts an inexplicable attraction on her. Anna also meets the American fortune teller Lydia Wells, with whom she spends the night. Some time later, Anna and Emery find themselves in the gold mining town of Hokitika, where luck is said to be waiting for them. But this is where the problems for the young, aspiring Briton begin. New product