Eurydice: The Confession of Tom Ayrton

In 1853, a man named Thomas Ayrton was set ashore on an uninhabited island in the southern Pacific and left there. The official account, filed by New York Herald correspondent Gideon Spilett and entered into the record of Lord Glenarvan's expedition, described it as appropriate justice. The case was closed.

Twelve years later, Ayrton came down a hillside and found himself among the colonists of Lincoln Island - men and women who knew nothing of how he had arrived, or what he had done before,...