Secret Daughter
What happens when a hugely lucrative, multi-generational family business is threatened by forces both from without and within? The Warner family are Pitt Street farmers. Warners Inc is a blue chip, top end of town primary producer that owns huge land holdings across NSW, Victoria and Queensland. Its produce supplies all the major supermarket chains across Australia, turning over tens of millions of dollars a year.
When third generation CEO and family patriarch Jeremy Warner is killed in a freak accident, it triggers a power struggle, a battle for control of the family business and destiny.
Youngest son, 26 year-old Matthew Warner, is passionate about the family firm what they do. He and his Dad shared a love of the land and a love for the cut and thrust of big business. But in the wake of Jeremy’s death, the family has a decision to make: sell out to a foreign conglomerate or save the family company built up over generations. By the terms of Jeremy’s will, every family member gets a say in the future of the company. Matthew, his brother Pete, sister Olivia and his mother Wendy each have a vote – and they’re equally divided.
Which is when Matthew makes a startling discovery. Unknown to everyone, his father had an affair years ago… And another child. Born only a few months after Matthew, Ruby Croker is his Irish Twin. Ruby is unlike anyone the Warners have ever known. Born to an aboriginal mum, she’s an inner city girl from a poor family, a small time pub singer – a firecracker.