The burning shore - Wilbur Smith (The Courtneys #4)

"The savage beast of war had destroyed her father, her home, and now the man she loved..."

THE BURNING SHORE

Spring 1917. In war-ravaged northern France, Michael Courtney, a dashing aviator flying for the British, falls in love with a beautiful young French aristocrat, Centaine de Thiry. Their happiness is short-lived, and their hopes of a life together in the Africa of Michael’s birth perish in the blazing skies above the grim battlefields of the Somme.

Alone and destitute, Centaine determines that the child she carries will be born in Africa. Michael’s uncle, General Sean Courtney, arranges her passage to Cape Town, but a U-Boat torpedoes the hospital ship on which she is journeying and she is cast on the forbidding shore of the Namibian Desert...

Magnificently exciting, full of vivid action, passion and mystery, The Burning Shore is an epic quest for love and fortune that takes the courageous Centaine de Thiry deep into the secret heart of the African wilderness. Here is adventure and drama on such a monumental scale it could only have been written by the master storyteller, Wilbur Smith.