Desperate poachers are stalking the dwindling populations of Zimbabwe's great game parks. Ancient rivalries have ignited modern political ambitions and nothing is certain for those of the old Africa. But for Richard Dunn the stakes are even higher. Into his world comes the beautiful and compelling Steve Haues, a woman struggling to guard her own dreadful secret. Richard has no choice: face the consequences of the past and fight for the future. To lose now is to lose everything.

Falsely accused of a terrible crime, impetuous young aristocrat Lord Dallas Acheson is forced to flea his native Scotland, leaving behind the only woman he has ever loved - Lady Lorna de Iongh. Fate takes him to the emerging African seaport of Durban, from where he sets off to seek his fortune trading and hunting in the little-travelled midlands of Natal and the wilds of Zululand.

As southern Africa is torn apart by a so-called 'white man's war', Dallas Granger-Acheson and his beloved wife Lorna are caught up in the conflict between fiercely proud descendents of Dutch settlers and the might of Britain's colonial empire. At stake, possession of a land rich in resources.

Toddler Alex Theron is miraculously rescued by a passing clan of Kalahari Bushmen. Over the ensuing years the desert draws him back, for it hides a beautiful secret......diamonds