The Leopard's Bloody Veil

The land does not ask. It waits. It takes. It keeps.

On the Winterberg, a dying woman breaks an old and sacred law to save something older than herself - and lays it, unasked, on her infant son.

Baltazar Malan grows hard in a hard country. From the stone farms of his boyhood to the gold camps of De Kaap, he carries a thing he will not name and cannot put down - and behind him, patient as a debt, comes a soft-spoken man with a ledger who means to take it from him.

Balt runs south under a borrowed name, across a frontier of gold and drought and blood, toward the one thing the road has yet to cost him: a woman who had fled a cage of her own to reach that country. What they build, they build on ground that lets nothing stand unpaid.

Then the trap closes.

The Forging of the Veldtsman is the first book of The Leopard's Bloody Veil - a sweeping saga of nineteenth-century South Africa, of love and betrayal and a bloodline bound to a land that always, in the end, collects what it is owed.

For readers of Wilbur Smith, Charles Frazier's Cold Mountain, and Doctor Zhivago.

What's in the box
1 x THE LEOPARD'S BLOODY VEIL: THE FORGING OF THE VELDTSMAN - BOOK ONE