About the Book: This story is a historical fiction novel that connects two families and two centuries of history. It follows Mulanyin, an Indigenous man in 1854 Brisbane, as he falls in love with Nita amid rising colonial tensions. Two hundred years later, his tragic story is uncovered when Winona, a modern-day activist, cares for her grandmother, Eddie. Eddie’s sudden fame as “Queensland’s Oldest Aboriginal” brings the past to the present, forcing Winona to confront her family’s history and its consequences.