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The Knightshill Saga
A Question of Honour
In 1896, Knightshill, home of the Ashleigh family for 13 generations, is owned by Sir Gilliard, a general who treats his grandchildren as military subordinates and who is obsessed with the continuation of a distinguished line.

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A Distant Hero
In the second part of the Knightshill saga, Sir Gilliard's determination to continue the distinguished family line remains unshaken despite the interruptions of the Boer War and conflicts with his grandsons.

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Act of Valour
Set on the eve of World War, the Ashleighs of Knightshill have their world turned upside down when the black sheep of the family returns after 12 years. This is the concluding volume in the Knightshill trilogy.

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Novels
Scarlet Shadows
Lovely young Victoria Castledon marries aristocratic Charles Stanford before she knows him well enough to hesitate - and later finds out it is his notorious brother whom she truly loves. The novel moves from London to Constantinople to the valley of Balaclava as the brothers compete for her love.

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The Burning Land
Alex Russell's regiment is sent to South Africa during the prelude to, and early months of, the Boer War. He struggles for moral and physical survival, his desperate love for a Boer girl leading to a conflict of loyalties.

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Rice Dragon
A love that conquered destiny - and a passion that raged from Hong Kong to the forbidden city.

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Dragon of Destiny
Harriet Deane will be swept from a cloistered life in Queen Victoria's London to the brilliance of the silk traders in China.

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Beyond All Frontiers
The frontier of the title is that between India and Afghanistan in the Nineteenth Century as the soldiers of the East India Company come up against the Russians in the early years of the Great Game.

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Forget the Glory
Set in the mid-1800s; hungering for a real war in which to prove himself, an English officer who has spent six years stationed in an isolated Indian province wins the hearts of two very different women, whereupon his entire regiment (and an entourage including the women, of course) is ordered to arms in the Crimea, half a world away.

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The Bridge of a Hundred Dragons
Set in 1920's China as a Royal Engineer is hired to help with the construction of a collapsed railway bridge. He gets involved in romance and pre-revolutionary politics as he tries to deal with a host of problems besetting his task.

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Captive Freedom
Leila Duncan, an ambitious actress, conceals her past as a lady's maid and trooper's wife. She captivates an aristocratic cavalry officer whose own past holds questions about his military actions and parentage. Leila repulses his initial advances, and their relationship is ended by the reappearance of her husband and Vivian's sudden marriage. Their paths cross once more in South Africa where both are caught in the Boer siege of Kimberley.

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Some Far Elusive Dawn
Set in Singapore in the 1920s, the story centres around four members of the new generation emerging from the tragedy of the Great War. A book which shows how the horrors of war can affect not only the people who have fought in it but also those people with whom they come into contact later on.

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That Sweet and Savage Land
When Elizabeth married her husband William, she little expected a life of adventure and colour, but she had not bargained for the days of mindless boredom spent with her female in-laws while her husband re-joined his troops in India. So when she met John Stavenham the two fell in love.

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Concerto
It is 1941 and Hong Kong is home to an extensive expatriate society. Among them is Rod Durman, a dedicated Australian doctor. Banking heiress Sarah Channing is a gifted young pianist come to be with her estranged father. Between them is Alex Tennant, exiled from England after a youthful scandal. From the devastation of Hong Kong's fall to the triumph of the D-Day landings, vividly recreates the war years in the East and in England.

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Jade Alliance
The story opens in St. Petersburg and the chaos of the Russian Revolution from where the central characters flee to Hong Kong where they eventually establish themselves as jade merchants.

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