There is nothing more exciting than a new writer with a genuine voice. I loved it. Julian Fellowes, creator of Downton Abbey
Frances Irvine, left destitute in the wake of her father s sudden death, has been forced to abandon her life of wealth and privilege in London and emigrate to the Southern Cape of Africa. 1880 South Africa is a country torn apart by greed. In this remote and inhospitable land she becomes entangled with two very different men one driven by ambition, the other by his ideals. Only when the rumor of an epidemic takes her into the dark heart of the diamond...