The Murder that Haunts Generations of One Australian Family
In the first of Ryn Shell’s epic “Dreaming Billabong” series, the history of the ghost who haunts the billabong, or lagoon, in remote Fife Springs Australia is revealed. Harry, descendant of the powerful cattle baron Alan Fife, is a lonely child, born at the very end of World War II in the isolated town. Harry’s difficult childhood and loneliness have an impact on his behavior throughout his life, but when we meet him as a child he has created an imaginary friend, Charlotte, to ease his loneliness. She is based on a real woman, Alan Fife’s mistress, who lived in the 1880s. Harry uses his connection with her to escape the real world and travel back in time to the very same billabong near where he lives now. And where the real Charlotte was killed in a massacre. Charlotte is the Billabong Ghost…
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