The Lesotho Diamond

<p><strong>Lesotho 1962. One reckless lie. A diamond worth killing for. A love that could cost them everything.</strong></p><p></p><p>When a forced landing in a snow-swept mountain valley throws Philippa Tremain back into the path of Stuart Price - the rugged charter pilot she's never quite forgotten - a reckless impulse takes hold. Stranded with their rescuers and an approaching storm she tells a lie: they are newlyweds. Stuart horrified but protective plays along.</p><p>The lie should have melted with the snow.</p><p></p><p>It doesn't.</p><p></p><p>Months later in Cape Town Philippa's life appears firmly on course - a powerful suitor a diamond dynasty a future of security and privilege. But when the mountain photograph resurfaces in the hands of a ruthless criminal tied to a highland diamond syndicate that impulsive story becomes lethal leverage. Stuart is blackmailed into flying illegal runs to the remote diggings at Letseng-la-Terai where greed desperation and whispered talk of medicine murders have turned the Maluti highlands into a powder keg.</p><p>Dragged back to the stark beauty of colonial Basutoland Philippa finds herself caught between the safe marriage she was raised to want and the man her lie has endangered. Stuart already scarred by choices he can't outrun is running out of road. And when violence erupts on the mountain Philippa must choose what she's willing to sacrifice - and who she's willing to become.</p><p></p><p><em>The Lesotho Diamond</em> is African historical romantic suspense steeped in a landscape the author knows from childhood - her father's real investigations into illegal diamond buying and ritual murder in colonial Lesotho lie at the heart of this story.</p><p></p><p><em>Perfect for readers of Paula McLain's</em> Circling the Sun <em>and Jennifer McVeigh's</em> The Fever Tree.</p><p></p><p><em>Part of the Wings Over Africa series.</em></p>