Annetjie Myburgh is the only child of a National Party Cabinet Minister. Ricardo Titus is a revolutionary who have given up his studies to join the struggle for independence. Annetjie's father has all the sinister power of the apartheid regime at his disposal to crush those in the struggle; what will he do when his own daughter is involved? Will Ricardo and Annetjie be able to find love in spite of outdated duty, betrayal and murder? From the dappled suburb of Waterkloof in Pretoria, the desolation of Mitchells Plain; along the ivy-lined avenues of the University of Cape Town and over the dusty plains of Angola, this fast-paced romantic thriller takes the reader through a young woman's journey to find herself against the backdrop of a South Africa in turmoil.