A FALCON FLIES:The Ballantyne Series 1

She heard another movement pass behind her turned shoulder | a whisper of sound | yet so chilling that she felt all power of movement drained from her legs. He was here | very close in the blackness | toying with her | cruel as a cat. He had smelt her out. Now he crouched over her ready to strike and she could only wait. A mission of duty. A quest for love. Dr Robyn Ballantyne has always worked hard for what she wants. Coming home to Africa after twenty years | she fears there are only three men who may still stand in her way: THE BROTHER Zouga is the only family she's known for much of her life. Yet she and the celebrated soldier will never quite see eye to eye . . . THE CAPTAIN Codrington | ambitious British naval officer | wants to give her a perfect life. Could she ever be tamed enough to fit his idea of perfection? THE TRADER Mungo St John | the notorious American merchant | repels her with his slave trading. But Robyn cannot forget what once passed between them. As her adventures begin | Robyn must make decisions that will shape the future for all of them . . . The first book in the epic Ballantyne series