Burning Embers

Coral Sinclair is a beautiful but naive twenty-five-year-old photographer who has just lost her father. Shes leaving the life shes known and traveling to Kenya to take ownership of her inheritancethe plantation that was her childhood homeMpingo.

• On the voyage from England, Coral meets an enigmatic stranger to whom she has a mystifying attraction.

She sees him again days later on the beach near Mpingo, but Corals childhood nanny tells her the man is not to be trusted. It is rumored that Rafe de Monfort, owner of a neighboring plantation and a nightclub, is a notorious womanizer having an affair with her stepmother, which may have contributed to her fathers death.

• Circumstance confirms Corals worst suspicions, but when Rafes life is in danger she is driven to make peace.

• Is Rafe just toying with a young womans affections?
• Is the notorious womanizer only after Corals inheritance?
• Or does Rafes troubled past color his every move, making him more vulnerable than Coral could ever imagine?

A tentative romance blossoms amidst a meddling ex-fiancé, a jealous stepmother, a car accident, and the dangerous wilderness of Africa. Set in 1970, this contemporary historical romance sends the seemingly doomed lovers down a destructive path wrought with greed, betrayal, revenge, passion, and love.

To date, Hannah Fielding has published eight novels: Burning Embers, set in Kenya; The Echoes of Love, set in Italy; the Andalucian Nights trilogy (Indiscretion, Masquerade and Legacy), set in Spain; Aphrodites Tears, set on the Greek islands; Concerto, set on Lake Como; and Song of the Nile, set in Hannah's homeland, Egypt.