Angela Duffield

Fields of Fire and Ice Angela Duffield

When family secrets are revealed they can change your life forever. Anne holds the key to a family secret that spans two generations of her family history. And she doesn't even know it! The secret has been guarded by her uncle who has suddenly disappeared. Anne must decipher the clues that her Uncle has left for her when she moves into his vacant house. But there is someone else who knows about the secret, putting her life and her family in danger. Who can she trust? The English and the Afrikaans have always despised each other, but Anne's great grandfather, a British Soldier, married a Boer women and changes the lives of his family in a country where the land the has always been divided. When Anne finds his diary amongst her cookbooks, she begins to read about his time in the Boer War and she slowly uncovers the truth about her family and the farm that they owned. The new government in South Africa is seeking to reclaim land and redistribute it to the less fortunate. How will Anne protect her family inheritance when land has become far more precious than diamonds. When an old flame, Mynhart appears back in her life after jilting her years ago. She must choose whether to open her heart again to a Afrikaans man whose family despised her for being English. But can he be trusted? How do you protect your family when you don't know who the enemy is? You trust the man that protected you as a child when your family was attacked by the Secret Police during the Apartheid Regime.