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Sheila OutBack Vengeance
Paperback
ISBN13: 9780646743295
Publisher: Gregory Round
Published: Jul 15 2026
Pages: 260
Weight: 0.60
Height: 0.55 Width: 5.25 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
Set against the merciless expanse of the Australian outback at the end of the nineteenth century, SHEILA is a dark prestige drama about survival in a world where law, faith, and masculinity operate as instruments of control rather than protection. When a fourteen-year-old girl flees an abusive home and inadvertently uncovers a brutal crime, she is drawn into a landscape governed by violence, silence, and moral compromise. The outback becomes both sanctuary and judge-stripping away innocence, exposing hypocrisy, and forcing a child to confront the cost of freedom in a society that offers her none.
SHEILA is a fast paced historical survival drama exploring trauma, agency, and moral inheritance. It interrogates how patriarchal power structures; religion, colonial law, and frontier masculinity that weaponize righteousness while abandoning the vulnerable. The outback is not a backdrop but a psychological mirror: vast, indifferent, and brutally honest.
Sheila Hamilton is fourteen years old. She rides a piebald mare called Pie, carries a Remington 44 her uncle Nick taught her to use, and is running from a father who has violated every trust a parent can break.
What she rides into is something else entirely: a murder, a manhunt, a love triangle, a train robbery, a steamer hijacking, and a tunnel heist beneath a Charters Towers Post Office.
By the time story ends, Sheila Hamilton has killed men, saved lives, buried the dead, grieved her horse, and stood alone on the banks of the Burdekin River with a saddlebag of gold and a world that wants her hanged. She is not a victim. She is not a hero. She is a girl who survived, and that is more than enough.
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