This third book in a series of five traces the lives of 145 convicts on one of the smaller ships to arrive during the 1790s. It nevertheless had a violent element to its cargo, and a large contingent of convicts from the North of Ireland. Arrivals include Laurence Davoren, fiery republican lawyer and his wife Alice; Thomas Biggers, a short-tempered overseer; John Kenny, school teacher and murderer; Mary Bryan, Mary Curran and Catherine McLean, highwaywomen who dressed as men to rob the Wicklow Mail; robber Joseph Flood, father of Edward Flood, a Lord Mayor of Sydney; James McCarthy, labelled a rebel in Ireland, and who became a well respected Catholic leader in Sydney; Bryan Reilly, rebel and marshal of the croppies at the Battle of Vinegar Hill; and many more.