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Zandri had been away from Wyedraai for seven years, where as a child she had spent blissful holidays with her great-uncle on his horse farm. The village was now buzzing with activity: Here she arrived in a battered four-wheel drive vehicle, and a prominent family from the village had found her in London, where she had lived for the past few years, with a child . . . her child, out of wedlock, she supposedly told them. Old friends now looked at her with distaste and Ferdinand, her teenage love, had changed a lot. But it was nothing, she had long since gotten over him. And yet . . . why was her life seemingly entangled with his? Can she hope to compete with the woman from his past, the one who, according to his aunt Ragie, had broken his heart and ruined him for other women? And what of the child?