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1. 1. The Stone Flower

   

   South Africa, 1857. Susan Parker arrives in the inland wilderness as the plain, stocky bride of a missionary and after a violent attack by Hottentot bandits she marries Frans Delport; they raise a daughter and carve out a primitive homestead. Their isolated life is disrupted when diamond strikes draw foreigners, including Jack Farson and David Kade, and Jack finds an epic stone called the Southern Cross diamond that starts fortunes, enmity, secret affairs and finally the Boer War.

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