MELONIE IS A SURVIVOR, BUT CAN SHE SURVIVE THE VENDETTA AGAINST HER? Melonie Johns, a 16-year-old farmer's daughter is abducted during the height of the Rhodesian bush war. She is subjected to the very worst of what war can serve up. Taken deep into enemy territory, she escapes with devastating consequences. Her escape breeds the vendetta that follows her to her new home in South Africa. Melonie enjoys a peaceful transition and achieves ascendancy in the South African horse-racing world after taking over her grandmother's stud in the heart of the Natal Midlands. But there is one man determined to destroy that peace in an unrelenting need to end Melonie's life. The man who abducted her needs her silenced. NOT EVEN HER PRECIOUS HORSES ARE SAFE.