Time of Dreaming

Encouraged by Dr. John Hart, a family friend, Adelina Stirling had decided to train as a nurse. An unconventional heiress, she wanted to escape her wealthy background and her widowed father's protective love. The year was 1899 and already the approaching conflict of the Boer War was casting its shadow over late Victorian England.
But then Addy met the aristocratically handsome Captain Rupert Hope-Dawson and, hoping to see more of him, agreed to do a season with his frivolous sister, Anne. Lady Carmina Harborough, a reigning society beauty, successfully engineered Adelina's marriage the penniless young officer.
All too soon, Rupert was posted to Durban and Addy's time of dreaming was over. She followed him there, hoping to assist at the military hospital established by Dr. Hart to deal with the casualities. And there, amidst the sun-baked hills of South Africa, Addy discovered the true love locked deep in her heart.