Floodtide — Suzanne Goodwin

Stella Vrendenburg grew to womanhood in a land torn apart by the Boer War, but the thunder and flash of guns on the distant horizon did not trouble her until her sixteenth year. When young Stella comes across a wounded English soldier, Rupert Flood Corydon, she saves his life -- at the risk of her own for helping the enemy. To the battle-hardened British troops the fire at her farm was just another brutal act of war: to Stella it was a blazing beacon burning her past to ashes and lighting the way to a strange new life in distant lands away from Africa.