While I live / Marsden, John

Ellie Linton, an Australian teen who engaged in guerilla warfare with invading forces after returning home from a camping trip with friends to find her family and the entire town imprisoned, tries to adjust to life on the farm following the end of hostilities, but finds the peace uneasy both across the border and within herself.

Officially the war is over, but Ellie can not seem to escape it and resume a normal life especially after her parents are murdered and she becomes the ward of an unscrupulous lawyer who wants to acquire her family's property.