The Flaming Hills — Helga Moray

There was nothing in the world like the vast, shimmering landscape of the South African countryside - a rich bounteous land where plumed ostriches and fabulous diamond mines were nearly as plentiful as the vivid scarlet flowers of the heat-laden summer. Into this beautiful wilderness came fiery-haired Katie Van Riebeck, Irish-born wife of the tall blond commander of a Boer regiment. Here, through hardship and conflict, Paul and Katie made their home. Now their serene, white-gabled homestead was threatened by the coming struggle with the British...their son and daughter tortured by forbidden desires...and now Katie Van Riebeck, once the belle of fashionable Capetown society, would prove her mettle as a sturdy frontier woman and fierce defender of everything she loved.