Torben and Gerda had another daughter. They called her Marie, for no particular reason. Perhaps they just liked the name. The coal industry flourished and with it, Torben’s business. Every two years they took a family holiday in Denmark.
Ellie and Lindsay spent two years in Bechuanaland before moving further north and joining a Scottish missionary group based near Blantryre in what was then British Central Africa. They had one child, a boy. His name was David.
Stephen Holgate disappeared while swimming in the Indian Ocean. He had been staying with Dallas and Lorna at their beach cottage near Umdhloti. His body was never found.
Lorna had a third family wedding at the farm. In September 1904 Meggie and Stan married. She was twenty-two, he forty, and they were as much in love as ever – more so if that were possible.
Stan bought most of the cattle from Morningside and trekked them to Kingsway. The farm was flourishing and with the rail line now through to Empangeni a lot of their earlier transport difficulties were solved. Colin was born to Meggie and Stan in July 1905 and Robert– Bob, as they called him, except when he was naughty – the following year. Noel arrived in February 1908. That was supposed to be it. Unfortunately, it wasn’t: Meggie had a laat lamajie in August 1913. His name was Joe. Bringing him into the world cost Meggie her life. She was thirty-one. Stan never remarried. He died in 1935, aged seventy-five. Two of their four sons were killed during the Second World War.
Mister David? He was taken by a crocodile in the Mhlathuze lagoon. It was never proved but that’s what they say. Henry never returned to Morningside.
And on Christmas Eve 1902, Cameron shot a lion near Lindley.
Beverley Harper
Shadows in the Grass
Enraged screams filled his head. Deadly shapes bore down. Animal and man driven by one single thought. Kill or be killed. Neither wanted to die.
Falsely accused of a terrible crime, impetuous young aristocrat Lord Dallas Acheson is forced to flee his native Scotland, leaving behind the only woman he has ever loved – Lady Lorna de Iongh. From that day onwards, he must learn to live a different life in a land where danger is an ever-present partner.
Fate takes him to southern Africa and the emerging seaport of Durban, from where he sets off to trade and hunt, seeking his fortune in the little-travelled midlands of Natal and the wilds of Zululand. Tested to the limit, Dallas discovers more than he could have imagined.
Married to a woman he doesn’t love, he yearns to abandon the restraints of nineteenth-century society to be with Lorna. And when the Zulu war breaks out, finds himself torn between old and new loyalties, required to be an enemy of the land that is now his true home.
Brimming with the trademark qualities of evocative storytelling and accurate research brought to vivid life, Beverley Harper, author of Jackal’s Dance, is indeed ‘Australia’s answer to Wilbur Smith’.
AUSTRALIAN GOOD TASTE
Beverley Harper
Jackal’s Dance
Agony exploded in her knee. She staggered, tried to keep going, then nearly fell as a shocking pain rushed up her leg. Confusion and fear swamped her senses, escape suddenly essential. The tuskless cow turned and hobbled away, each step agonising torture. Her front right knee joint had been shattered by the single copper-jacketed bullet.
Man, her hated enemy, had just handed out a death sentence.
As the rangers and staff of a luxury lodge in Etosha National Park, Namibia welcome the last guests of the season, thoughts are predominantly on the three-month break ahead. Except for Sean, who is fighting his growing attraction for the manager’s wife, Thea.
Camping in the park nearby, Professor Eben Kruger has his work cut out keeping the attention of the university students in his charge on the behavioural habits of the cunning jackal.
None of them could ever be prepared for the horrendous events about to take place. Each will be pushed to breaking point as the quest for survival becomes the only thing that matters.
Shocking, gripping, breathtaking. Beverley Harper’s outstanding new novel is a guaranteed bestseller.
Beverley Harper
The Forgotten Sea
Not a pretty sight. Certainly not one the authorities on Mauritius, that gem of a tourist destination in a trio of idyllic islands once known as the Mascarenes, would like to become public knowledge. Their carefully nurtured image was of sparkling blue sea, emerald green palm fringes haphazardly angled along pure white beaches ... This was ugly, messy.
When Australian journalist Holly Jones flies to Mauritius to cover playboy adventurer Connor Maguire’s search for buried ancestral treasure, it promises to be a relaxing two weeks in an exotic island paradise. What she hasn’t planned on is an infuriating, reluctant subject with a hidden agenda. Or one who stirs the fires in a heart grown cold. But can she trust him ...
After the body of a young woman is washed up on a beach, Holly finds herself caught in a deadly murder investigation and the island’s darkest secrets.
A compelling, passionate tale from Beverley Harper, author of the bestselling People of Heaven, Echo of an Angry God, Edge of the Rain and Storms Over Africa.
‘We have our own Wilbur Smith in the making here in Australia’
SUN HERALD
Beverley Harper
People of Heaven
The poacher didn’t shoot her. Bullets cost money and a shot might alert the rangers ... On the third night, after enduring more agony than any man or beast should ever have to face, the rhinoceros took one last shuddering breath, heaved her flanks painfully, and sought refuge in the silky blackness of death.
In 1945 two returning soldiers meet on a train bound for Zululand. They have nothing in common; Joe King is a British– South African landowner, Wilson Mpande a Zulu tribesman. Yet destiny will link them for generations.
Michael King and Dyson Mpande, the sons of enemies, share a precious friendship that defies race and colour. But as the realities of apartheid transform an angry South Africa, the fate of the Zulu nation is as precarious as that of the endangered black rhinoceros, hunted for its horn. Each must fight for what he loves most.
And a great evil between their families will test their friendship beyond imaginable limits.
Passionate, suspenseful, evocative, Beverley Harper’s fourth novel is a worthy successor to her previous bestsellers, Echo of an Angry God, Edge of the Rain and Storms Over Africa.
‘Harper is Australia’s answer to Wilbur Smith’
AUSTRALIAN GOOD TASTE
Beverley Harper
Echo of an Angry God
Likoma Island in Lake Malawi is renowned throughout Africa for its exotic and treacherous beauty – and its secret history of human sacrifice, hidden treasure and unspeakable horror. A history that cannot be hidden forever.
Lana Devereaux travels to Malawi seeking the truth behind her father’s disappearance near Likoma Island fifteen years ago. But Lana soon finds herself caught in a web of deceit, passion and black magic that stretches back over two hundred years and has ramifications that reach well beyond the shores of Lake Malawi.
Beverley Harper is fast becoming one of Australia’s most popular storytellers. Echo of an Angry God is her most thrilling adventure yet and follows the enormous success of her previous novels, Storms Over Africa and Edge of the Rain.
‘a fast paced yet affecting thriller with ... compelling authenticity’
WHO WEEKLY
‘a terrific adventure’
GOLD COAST BULLETIN
Beverley Harper
Edge of the Rain
The blood scent was fresh. Hunger ached in her belly ... the lioness slid forward as close as she dared. The little boy seconds away from death was two, maybe three years old. He was lost in the vast, heat-soaked sand that was the Kalahari desert.
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.
But not
hing comes easily from within this turbulent continent and before Alex can even hope to realise his dreams he will lose his mind to love and fight a bitter enemy who will stop at nothing to destroy him ...
From the author of Storms Over Africa comes a novel of courage and an unforgettable journey into the beating heart of Africa.
Beverley Harper
Storms Over Africa
Richard Dunn has made Africa his home. But his Africa is in crisis.
Ancient rivalries have ignited modern political ambitions. Desperate poachers stalk the dwindling populations of the game parks. For those of the old Africa, the old ways, nothing is certain.
But for Richard – a man used to getting his own way– the stakes are even higher. Into his world has come the compelling and beautiful Steve Hayes. A woman he swears he will never give up. A woman struggling to guard her own dreadful secret.
Richard has no choice. He must face the consequences of the past and fight for the future. To lose now is to lose everything ...
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