From bestselling author Jackie French comes a compelling story of murder, mystery, and mutiny on the high seas - and a love so intense it can overcome two different cultures.<br/><br/><br/>You never know what the sea will give you ... or what it will take back.<br/><br/>When Mair McCrae follows her island tradition and hunts for a husband cast up on the beach, she has no notion that the naked, half-drowned man she rescues is not just Captain Michael Dawson, heir to a major shipping firm, but that he's obsessed by a 'ghost ship' carrying golden cargo.<br/><br/>On Big Henry Island women make the decisions and knit the patterns that mark a man as their own. But Big Henry is also a volcano, and threatening to erupt. Yet when Mair agrees to accompany Michael home, she finds that the Australian comfort he promised has a danger just as real: a social system that tries to keep women confined to small roles at the edges of men's lives.<br/><br/>And as Michael hunts for the 'Ghost' in his revolutionary new steamship, a string of mysterious deaths upends Mair's new life in Sydney.<br/><br/>Who is the murderer, and why is Mair the only one who realises what is happening?<br/><br/>PRAISE FOR BECOMING MRS MULBERRY<br/><br/>'... a captivating story of personal growth, of generosity in its true sense and ultimately one of courage and hope. Not to be missed.'<br/><br/>DARRY FRASER, AUTHOR OF THE FORTHRIGHT WOMAN<br/><br/>'A captivating masterpiece - insightful, humorous and heart wrenching. A total delight.'<br/><br/>TEA COOPER, AUTHOR OF THE BUTTERFLY COLLECTOR