The Immortalites

Abandoned as a child and raised in the bleak confines of an asylum, Ellie is taken into service as a governess by 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 a questionable 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.