THE SURVEYOR'S OBSESSION BOOK THREE OF THE BARTLEMAS ANTHOLOGY SERIES "You and I will be mounting our own secret search for the man we so wronged, and we will bring him back out of the desert, alive or dead ...................." Lizzie Bartlemas meets a young surveyor at the funeral procession for Burke and Wills in 1863, but as they prepare to marry she finds herself deserted at the altar and guilty of trying to kill the man she blames for her tragedy. When the surveyor disappears in the desert while trying to trace the steps of Burke and Wills, Lizzie blames both herself and the man she tried to kill for his unknown fate. Together, the unlikely pair set out to rescue a man who hates them both. THE BARTLEMAS ANTHOLOGY EPIC ADVENTURE AND SIZZLING PASSION The Bartlemas Anthology 1842 - 1886 As the wild and carefree Georgian period comes to a close in England, one scandalous union between a Circus Horseman and a Lady's Maid is all it takes to begin a roughshod dynasty, and the most extraordinary tale of adventure and passion imaginable. An unexpected inheritance and near death in the Crimea become mere precursors to rescue in the deadly sands of the Simpson Desert, and raging floods and devastation along far, colonial waterways. From the harshness of Victorian England's Industrial Revolution to the wild goldfields, searing deserts and river settlements of Colonial Australia, epic adventure and sizzling passion follows those who dare to follow their hearts and begin a new life in an unforgiving and exciting land.