title: The Capricorn People
author: Fletcher, Aaron
description: From Wayamba Station...
  
  Patrick, crusty patriarch of the Garrity Clan, had made his fortune as a sheep rancher in Australia's sprawling Outback; but his grandson, Earl, turns his back on the family's heritage in favor of a life at sea.
  
  ...to Passion and Peril on the High Seas!
  
  Earl's love for Meghan, the beautiful wife of a sadistic whaling captain, leads to further estrangement from his family, plunging them both into a maelstrom of seething emotions and danger that threatens their very lives.