The cover and description of this were misleading to me. I thought this would be a historical fiction novel with the Boer War figuring strong in the novel. In reality it is a very well written Historical Romance. Not really my type of book but it does give one the sense of what it might have been like to live in Victorian England. This is a novel that is more to a woman's taste than a man's.

We get in the heads of the 3 main characters as they agonize over love's problems. Alex, a tortured youth forced into a proposed marriage to Judith, a spinster whom he thinks is only after his money and status which he will have when he becomes 25 and Hetta, a young Boer woman who goes against her culture to fall in love with Alex, a hated englishman. The Boer war is very much a backdrop to this drama. In reading her background elsewhere it seems she is of a military family and I had hoped for more in the battle scenes such as they were...but that was not to be.

It was a not a bad read, but I doubt I will read more of her writing as romance is not my cup of tea,even though the few intense scenes were tastefully done. ( )