Star Crossed

Three families have a story in the past and the present. They are linked by an old lady's search for the truth.. When Kalle Kennedy visits her Great Grandmother, Jennifer Simpson, she finds that the report of the family's genealogist and Jennifer's childhood recollections of stories told to her have parallels in the present. In present day New Zealand, Kalle Kennedy disappears. She is drugged and tortured in a secret Interrogation Centre. On her release, she searches for her boyfriend, Marti Carter, who has also disappeared. Realisation of the reasons for her abduction lead Kalle to discover a White Supremacist plot against New Zealand's Moslem community. In 1801, Peter Field is press-ganged into service in King George III's Royal Navy to fight against Bonaparte's attempt to close the Baltic to the British. While preparing gunpowder supplies for the Battle of Copenhagen, Peter uncovers a plot to blow up the Admiralty. Peter's disappearance from the village of Highbeech leaves Isabella Blyde in limbo. She is attacked and left for dead. The Pajaris are merchants from Finland who are caught up in the political struggle to keep the Baltic trade routes open. A series of attacks on Riku Pajari seem to be the work those opposed to the Abolition of Slavery but Juho Pajari suspects his first born, Philip, is behind the attacks.

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