She was asked by Olivia to search the study – a room Olivia hadn’t ventured into after Evie disappeared – to see if she could find answers… Before too long Lettie was drawn into the disappearance of her Aunt Evie, thirty years prior. Olivia was far from that and delighted to see Lettie. She only knew what her mother had told her, so she expected her Great Aunt Olivia to be a dreadful old woman, frail and losing her mind. She used her brother’s motor, the Model T Ford he’d named Lizzie, and drove to the Hunter Valley, to Yellow Rock where the family property was, where her mother had been born. When Letitia’s brother Thorne was killed in a dreadful accident, Lettie needed to get away from Sydney and her mother Miriam. Evie would continue with the mapping in his absence. His thought was to write a book about the explorer but there was more to discover before that could happen. He tasked her with formulating his notes and letters on the missing Ludwig Leichhardt, something William had been obsessed with for a long time. He’d taken her sister Miriam to Sydney to marry but had told Evie he would only be away a couple of months. It was 1880 and eighteen-year-old Evie Ludgrove missed her father desperately.

forcing the characters to reckon with the choice found at the crux of passion and loyalty and the power of shared blood that can either destroy or heal.” -Joy Callaway, international bestselling author of The Fifth Avenue Artists Society A gripping historical mystery for fans of Kate Morton and Natasha Lester’s The Paris Seamstress, The Cartographer’s Secret follows a young woman’s quest to heal a family rift as she becomes entangled in one of Australia’s greatest historical puzzles. But all is not as it seems, and Letitia begins to realize that solving the mystery of her family’s past could offer as much peril as redemption. So when Letitia discovers a beautifully illustrated map that might hold a clue to the fate of her missing aunt, Evie Ludgrove, she sets out to discover the truth. But Letitia is also escaping her own problems-her brother’s sudden death, her mother’s scheming, and her dissatisfaction with the life planned out for her. Letitia Rawlings arrives at the family estate in her Ford Model T to inform her great-aunt Olivia of a loss in their family. But when Evie sets out to prove her theory, she vanishes without a trace, leaving behind a mystery that haunts her family for thirty years. So when an advertisement appears in The Bulletin magazine offering a thousand-pound reward for proof of where Leichhardt met his fate, Evie is determined to use her father’s papers to unravel the secret. Evie Ludgrove loves to chart the landscape around her home-hardly surprising since she grew up in the shadow of her father’s obsession with the great Australian explorer Dr.

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