Beneath the Lemonwood Tree

<p><strong><em>The Sequel to the Popular Winds of Change</em></strong></p><p><br></p><p>The Lemonwood tree stands proud at the highest point on Chanting Clover Thoroughbred Stud in the heart of the picturesque KwaZulu Natal midlands of South Africa. It is a place where the Whitaker family gravitate for times of intimacy introspection and restoration normally on the back of a horse.</p><p><br></p><p>Melonie Whitaker as a young mother is recovering from the harrowing experience of the third attempt on her life. Her assailant died. Melonie's lawyer successfully proved to a packed court that it was self-defense not murder.</p><p>But she remains the target of Colonel Solomon Tlale: Melonie's nemesis. The man who abducted her twenty years earlier during the Rhodesian bush war.</p><p><br></p><p>Despite crippling security measures Melonie and her husband Gary manage to breed and train to the pinnacle of South African flat racing and beyond to the Middle East and America.</p><p><br></p><p>All the time the colonel's vendetta affects their every decision. In a simple error on security the family is struck with heart-wrenching consequences.</p><p>Can the Whitakers stop the madness of the Colonel from destroying them all?</p>