Eagle on the Hill

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A fabulous adventure and sweeping saga of the people who lived and worked on the Murray-Darling rivers in the late 1800's.Business and people flow up and down the rivers and as with any business the conflict between the workers and the bosses could flare into violence as easily as the storms came down the river ... Against the backdrop of the growing nation and constant change, two families carry on a feud which could tear them both apart ...Charlie Armstrong is a big man on the rivers, captain of a successful riverboat business, but he's no angel. As a younger man, Charlie stole George Grenville's prize stallion for a life-and-death ride for help; George is a wealthy landowner, and has built his mansion alongside the river. The horse came home unharmed, but George has never forgotten or forgiven. When these two men find themselves on opposite sides in a dispute between the landowners and their workers, and when the bosses try to bring strikebreakers downriver, they become implacable enemies, and their pride and egos threaten to tear apart their families.When 8 year old Alex Armstrong saves Martin Grenville from drowning, a friendship is forged. But as they grow up and fall in love, their relationship becomes entangled in the feud between their fathers ... and in the changes taking place in the world around them.