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An historical novel focusing on the frontier wars in Central Queensland, and, in particular, the Hornet Bank massacre (involving the deaths of the Fraser family and an Aboriginal stable hand at Hornet Bank station in 1857) and the resulting massacres of the Iman people in reprisal.

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Author's note: The story of the massacre of the Fraser family and three of their employees and the subsequent retaliation, as told by Thomas Scott, is based on my history, A Nest of Hornets, published by Oxford University Press, Melbourne, in 1982. Material relating to the Scott family is derived partly from that history and from archival sources, such as the will and last testament of Andrew Scott senior...(p. 306-307)