‘In the harem I used to go about barefoot most days.’ The shop-girl said they are quite the latest thing and they were terribly expensive, but it seems they aren’t really made to be walking about in.’ She sighed and poked one foot out from under the long folds of her striped skirt, turning her ankle a little to examine her neat suede boots with their delicate low heel and elaborate fastenings of hooks, eyes and ribbons. ‘I don’t think I’m quite used to these new boots yet, Penny. He steadied her and looked down fondly into her lovely eyes. She lost her footing on the shallow steps that led down to the gravelled driveway, and instinctively clutched the arm of her fiancé, Major Penrod Ballantyne.
Wilbur Smith’s two most powerful families, the Courtneys and the Ballantynes, meet once again in the long-awaited sequel to his worldwide bestseller, The Triumph of the Sun.Īmber Benbrook was dazzled for a moment as she stepped out from the shadowy cool of the Gheziera Club into the Cairo sun.
With storm clouds gathering, and on opposing sides of the invasion, can Penrod and Amber find their way back to one another – against all the odds? Italy has designs on Abyssinia, and there are rumours of a plan to invade. He is rescued by an old friend, who is a member of the Italian army, and offered the chance to join the military effort. Seeking their fortune, they undertake the dangerous journey to Addis Ababa, but they soon find they may have risked losing everything to a powerful new ruler – Menelik II, the King of Kings.īack in Cairo, a devastated Penrod seeks oblivion in the city’s opium dens. Searching for purpose, Amber travels to Abyssinia with her twin sister, Saffron, and her adventurer husband, Ryder Courtney. When a jealous former lover destroys the happiness of Penrod Ballantyne and his fiancée, Amber Benbrook, their vision of a shared future shatters. I am the mouth of your Emperor Menelik, King of Kings, Lion of Judah, hear me! –With the help of God I will defend the inheritance of my forefathers and drive back the invader by force of arms.
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