War threatens to take all she has loved & lived for...
On the outbreak of war, Belle Reilly's husband Jimmy enlists
... The Promise charts the crash & burn of a white South African family, living on a farm outside Pretoria.
The Swarts
Marion Brookfield was just 18 years old when she promised her father, a journalist, murdered by a vagrant, to put aside her own dreams & care for her younger sister Annette. Orphaned & penniless, the girls think they have found refuge after charming businessman Victor Bateman proposes to Marion & moves them into his luxurious home. But Marion's friend Daniel Brady is conducting his own investigation into Henry Brookfield's death. Learning that the deceased journalist was closing in on the ruthless head of a child prostitution racket when he was killed. & now his precious daughters, may not be so safe after all. This book has 518 pages & is 17.7cm x 11.2cm x 3.3cm