Isaiah's Mountain

May 1901. Jo stands alone ready to meet her fate as British soldiers come thundering up the dusty track of her farm. She has not raised a white flag it is pointless; the British are burning homesteads to the ground. Choked by the acrid smell of farmlands and livestock blazing in the valley Jo struggles to find her voice and the words she needs to save her home. <br>A strange twist of events transports Jo back to a time when as a young teacher in the tiny Karoo town of Kweek Valley she was drawn into the troubled world of a boy named Lukas Bester. A time past when nothing was as simple as it seemed and the truth lay silent and festering beneath the surface of the pious community. A time when she was Joanna Shepherd an entirely different person... <br>If she is to survive Jo has to find the words which uncover the truth as she navigates her way through grief betrayal and the violence of war.