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"Ambitious American adventurer Nathan Johnson's journey begins when he runs away to sea to escape a violent father. After surviving a shipwreck and enslavement by one of the indigenous tribes of America's northwest, his stocks rise and he becomes a successful trader. When Nathan decides to visit Fiji to trade muskets to the natives, he doesn't know it but his fortunes are about to change again. Sheltered English missionary Susannah Drake's journey begins after she agrees to accompany her clergyman father to Fiji to help him run a mission station there. They endure a nightmare voyage they're lucky to survive. When Susannah finds herself sexually attracted to a young crewmember, she is forced to choose between her forbidden desires and the life her father has mapped out for her. Irrepressible Cockney Jack Halliday's journey begins when he steals hemp from an unscrupulous employer who owes him outstanding wages. For this he's sentenced to seven years' hard labor in the British penal colony of New South Wales. Jack escapes to Fiji only to be tracked down by a bounty hunter employed by the British Government to round up escaped convicts. After traveling thousands of miles and experiencing the best and worst that life can offer, these three disparate individuals eventually end up in the remote archipelago of Fiji, in the South Pacific, where their lives intersect. The intrepid trio's adventures continue in ""Fiji: A Novel (Book Two in The World Duology)""."

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Lance and James Morcan are a New Zealand father-and-son writing and filmmaking team. Their literary works include 10 published non-fiction titles, including eight in the popular The Underground Knowledge Series; they have written six published novels in the thriller and historical adventure genres, including The Ninth Orphan, The Orphan Factory, The Orphan Uprising, Fiji: A Novel and Into the Americas. Several of these books, including Genius Intelligence and Into the Americas, are regular visitors to Amazon's bestseller lists on Kindle. The Morcans have adapted some of their novels to feature film screenplays. These are in development with their film production company Morcan Motion Pictures, and they include Into the Americas.

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