The Immortalites

Ellie Kent longs to belong. Orphaned as a child and raised in the bleak confines of an asylum, Ellie jumps at the opportunity when she is sent as a governess to a family bound for the distant colony of South Africa. But before reaching their destination, she is abandoned once more – cast adrift in a land as vast as it is unforgiving. Left with no choice but to join a caravan of settlers, Ellie finds herself in the company of an unsavoury trader, a mysterious opera singer, and a young Afrikaner, Gysbert de Boer, tasked with delivering her safely to an uncertain future. As war brews on the horizon and the settlers struggle for survival in a land that offers little mercy, Ellie must carve out a home – or be lost to the wilderness forever. A sweeping frontier fable, The Immortalites is a masterfully crafted tale of survival, sacrifice, and the search for belonging.