Kimberley - Colin Burke (Signed)

In this tense and dramatic panoramic novel of passion and war Colin Burke has created a magnificent heroine, Emma Stevenson, a woman of intelligence, fine beauty, and intricacy.

The setting is Kimberley, the diamond capital of the world, during the four months of 1899 when the British were completely surrounded by the enemy in the Boer War.

Emma is torn between her war-hero husband Geoffrey and the maverick Bart Bannock, who has unwittingly brough the best race horse in the world into the middle of a war where horse thieves abound. For different reasons both Emma and Bart want to escape from Kimberly: Emma to break free of a stifling marriage and then an even more stifling widowhood under her dominating mother, Bart because the great horse Marcus embodies all his hope for the future - until he meets Emma. Events are further heated by Emma's reckless sister, Sarah, and the enigmatic, menacing Major Gordon Masefield as the siege tightens and Kimberley crumbles under bombardment. 

Colin Burke's novel embodies the best ingredients for exciting fiction: love and war, intrigue, suspense and a thrilling, satisfying ending.