On India’s North-West Frontier a beleaguered Brigadier, his fort ringed by hostile tribesmen, entrusts his daughter Muriel to Nick Ratcliffe, an undersized, ugly and utterly fearless young officer. Nick gets her out alive, but the ordeal binds them in a way she cannot forgive, and the story follows them to England, where he pursues her with the same ruthless persistence.
Ethel M. Dell’s first novel and the start of her enormous popularity, with the imperial attitudes of 1912 on full display. Download the free EPUB.