Into the Gorge

In every gorge, secrets run deep.

An ill-fated encounter with Adolf Hitler after the Austrian Anschluss of 1938 sends young Ilsa and her family on the run. Daring to hope they’d found safety on the other side of the world, the inexorable global conflict follows them into Australia’s vast Katherine Gorge, where secrets are carved . . . and scars last forever.

When the perilous journeys of this beautiful Austrian woman and a wayward Australian commando collide, the two discover escaping a war is only half the battle . . . they still have to find their way home. The explosive events that follow will determine whether physical chasms can ever separate true love.

Rick Burton is the David B. Falk Endowed Professor of Sport Management at Syracuse University. For four years he lived in Sydney, serving as Commissioner of Australia’s National Basketball League. He remains active there as Chief Operating Officer for Australian sports technology firm Playbk Sports. Burton has spent considerable time overseas as a visiting professor at Kufstein Tirol University in Austria, and he was Chief Marketing Officer for the U.S. Olympic Committee during the 2008 Beijing Summer Olympics. The coauthor of numerous sport management books, including Business the NHL Way (University of Toronto Press), Burton has written for the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and Sports Business Journal.